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 GLOSSARY OP THE DIALECT 07 ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. A. (1) WLen this vowel occnis in some words, it is in the Almond- bury dialect sounded as at in tuait Thus, arm, card, fanny harm, wash, &c., are airm, caird. fairm, Jiairm, waish, &c. ; but if the word be spoken sharply, there is a tendency to produce the sound of e in met (2} In such words as make, take, shake, Sto,, the sound of a in man, eat, IS used, and the words beoome mak, tak, shak, &c. (3) In the words chance^ dance, France (when a fSEimily name, but not the country), the short o in John is used ; thus, chontz, &c. (4) When the combination ange occurs, the practice amongst old people is irregular ; thus, grange, mange, and strange, are graunge, maunge, and straunge ; but range is roange, and change, choinge, N.B. — The pronunciations of the last two words have been disputed ; but on the case being referred to an aged man, he said, * I have heard the words so pronounced thaasands o* times.' (6) Au. This diphthong in customary English generally is sounded here as long o ; thus, Paul, Said, applaud, pause, &c., become Pole, Sole, &c., in the dialect. Calf, half, &c., follow the same rule, and become co/e, hofe, &c. ; though some call them cauf, hauf, which in the dialect would represent the spelling of co/e, hofe, &c. N.B. — Nos. 6 and 7, the two next following, are merely conventional forms intended to produce the northern pronunciation by stand- ard English sounds ; and this will be generally the case where the spelling is varied or doubtfiiL (6) Aa. This combination of vowels will be used in the glossary where ou diphthong occurs in ordinary English, with the sound of ow in how, as in tha4isands, above ; but not in such words as four, pour, &0. (7) All. When this diphthong stands by itself in the specimens of the dialect in the following work, it is to be taken for the personul pronotui /. It may be a matter of some astonishment that the old sound of the above pronoun is so variable and so doubtful that I r