Chap. VI.
The Dialects, and also improper diphthongs.
There are six principal dialects: common, Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, and poetic. All of these are idioms that I am neither familiar with, nor agree with, yet since I recall them, I will be able to relate them here. Ai for j is a Northernism, as in faier for fjer, fire. Also, au for ou, as in gaun or geaun for goun, gown; the same for ü: thus, for wünd wound, waund. To them it is also common to have ea for e, as in meat for mët, meat; the same for o, as in beað for both, both. Even among my fellow Lincolners, you will hear toaz and hoaz for töz toes and höz hose. And they say kest or even kusn for kast, cast; fula for folön; klöth for kloth, cloth, and vice versa: spokn for spökn,
