It will be well to remember, when reading aloud, that a consonant with an elided vowel must be joined either to the word preceding or following, as ’t’ hoss,’ ’t’ hens,’ ‘t’ wax,’ the horse, the hens, the wax, which would be pronounced ’toss,’ ‘tens,’ ‘twax.’ Again, ‘Sha’s i’ t’ sulks’ would be ’shas it sulks,’ and ‘Oot wi’ ‘t, put tane ti t’ ither,’ would be rendered as ’oot wit, put tane ti tither,’ ‘Ah’ve deean noo, t’ ink’s ommaist dhry i’ mah pen, seea this’ll ’a’e ti be
T’ LAP UP ON ‘T.’
OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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HUMOROUS RECITALS
OF HIS
Original Character Sketches in the Yorkshire Dialect
(AS SPOKEN IN THE NORTH RIDING)
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