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 68 THE DIALECT OF Hush, sK a gust of wind : evidently for ntah, [A.S. hr^san, to rush ; drop the r, hush. — ^W. W. S.] Hnsflle, or HnsUe, sb, rubbish. Halliwell has hustlement = odds and end& * Before An tum'd it into a garden There was nowt but hustle there.' EnYVle, sb. a stall for the finger or thumb. The word is usually pronounced uvvU. Now, making allowance for the vil, which would suggest the spelling veZ, or vie (see Letter I, 3, 1, 3), and admitting the A, which might or might not be intended, we come to huwle as the most probable local form. Grose, howeyer, calls it huffle. The personal pronoun / is generally sounded like au in caught 1. But the long t in words has a greater diversity of sound. (a) In some words it is pronounced saee; thus, lighiy bright, dive^ fto., are led^ brest, slttve^ &c. (5) And occasionally, but rarely, like a in ray ; thus, right is sometimes called rate, and fight generally /afe ; also pismire, pismare, [The Anglo-Saxon has both riht and reht for right,—W. W. 8.] (c) Again, in some words, the long i is shortened ; thus, u^nd (the verb) is ufind, hinder is Mnder, and hindli^t is hindlift. In fact the long t, as sounded in customary English, is almost or quite unknown here in the dialect. 2. On the other hand, the short « is a particularly fEiyourite sound, that is, it is introduced in numberless instances wnere in customary English it is not foimd. (a) Some words containing the diphthong oa are pronounced as if spelt oi, or oy ; thus, coal, coat, foal, loan (a lane), and throat, are coil^ . coit, foil, loin, and throit. The exceptions are numerous — load^ road^ &c, ; oak is yak» (b) The same sound is given to o followed by e with a consonant intervening ; thus, cote, Mte, pose, pote, thole, &c,, are coit, hoil, poise, poit, thoil, &c. Choke, coke, smoke, &a are among the exceptiona ^c) The short i is introduced after oo in a large number of words, chiefly, however, where the oo is full in ordinary English ; thus, boon, boot, boose, fool, goose, moon, noon, roose, school, shoot, spoon, tool, tooth, Ac, become booin, booU, boidse, &0. {d) The same takes place, but more rarely, in words where the oo has the shortened sotmd of ti in put ; thus, /oof and good are fooit and gooid. But in such words generally the sound of oo is simply lengthened. (e) The rule, therefore, seems to be, when the oo is fiill the i is introduced) and when short it is lengthened, in the dialect. 3. The short i sound of the South in such words as din, pin, sin, &c. is used here for words ending — (a) In en; thus, brethren, children, Ellen, elsen, Ac, are brethrin, childrin, Ellin, elsin, &c.