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The letter "S" is pronounced as "Z" when followed by A, E, I, O, U, Y, and W. All words commencing thus are therefore transferred accordingly.

In many other cases also the sound of "S" is roughened so as closely to approximate to that of "Z," but this roughening varies greatly even amongst persons in the same village, and is not thought to warrant the substitution of "Z" for "S" in the.

SCAAYLE.—To weigh. To strip off the surface coating.

SCALLIONS.—Old onions replanted the second year.

SCAMBLE.—To run hastily and irregularly.

SCANDALOUS.—Very extensively used for "very great" in a disparaging sense. "Ut be scandalous work to hev to dig up ground as be zo stwuney."

SCAUT.—To dig one's heels into the ground so as to resist being pushed or forced from where one is standing.

"I took 'un by the scruff o' the neck, but a scauted zo as I cood'nt but jus' get 'un out o' the door."

A horse is said to scaut, when in drawing a heavy load down a steep hill he from time to time digs in his feet to stop the cart behind him from gaining pace and pushing power.

SCHISM SHAPS.—Those belonging to the Church of England thus sometimes style other places of worship in a village than the Parish Church.

SCHOLARD.—One educated. "I beant no scholard, zur, but I hawpes to hev zome schoolin' vor my childern."

SCHOOLIN'.—Education.

SCOOP.—A wooden shovel as used for shovelling corn after it is threshed.