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A History of Clee and the Thorpes of Clee

A History of Clee and the Thorpes of Clee

Watson, Charles Ernest

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ISBN10: 1151307025
ISBN13: 9781151307026
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... section vi. dryasdust. Chapter I. Words And Names--Flora And Fauna. 2. Trade And Government. 3. Notes And Queries. 4. Authorities. chapter i. Words And Names--Flora And Fauna. 70rds. In parts remote from the centres of vy culture or the greater highways of progress there linger more relics of by-gone times than old buildings and institutions, and not unimportant among such vestiges of the past in any district must be reckoned those of speech. Conformably with the fact that different counties, and even different wapentakes, have developed different characteristics in this respect, Lincolnshire has its own very distinctive but dying dialect, and Lindsey its own modification of it. But apart from this, the folktongue of Clee retains features which are not so much local contortions as survivals of the earlier forms of speech of the Norman-Danish-EnglishBritish race. Not only in the words themselves, but in pronunciation of them, sometimes the original shape persists in such out-of-the-way places when all the world beside has forgotten them. As a case in point, take the word handkerchief. The sixteenth century writer, Florio, spells the word obviously as it was then pronounced among men of culture handkercher. And this is the pronunciation which obtains in Cleethorpes and elsewhere in the County at this day. Suspiciously consistent with their spelling is the North Lincolnshire pronunciation of such words as build (bew-ild); sea (se-ah); dead (dee-ad); you (yow). Oats, in actual use, from the rapidity with which both vowels are sounded becomes almost w'dts; and earn arn. Danish influence is to be traced in the use of mon and modnt for must and must not; and in such terms as beck, a stream, the equivalent of the Anglo-Saxon fleet. An interesting...

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