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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
The German officer had done nothing but smoke the whole time: he spoke English very ill; and he confined himself to the worst part of the language, namely, to swearing. Every thing was tam pad , tam nonsince , tam stoff , tam stubid kaptan , tam pad find , tam long shorney , et cetera. Then he slept a great part of the time, and nearly smoked out all the rest; and I perceived that when the provisions were out, he hid himself, in order to eat some of his own which he had concealed, and which he would not difide (as he called it) mit nopoty
(Vol. 1,p. 5-6)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage

Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
John is an able counsel; but deliver us from his delivery! It is the harsh vulgar impetuosity of the unmannered and unlettered man, clad in the vulgarest vulgarisms of the vilest vernacular tongue, with an accent which would throw a harmonist into convulsions, and a grating sound which would set the strongest tooth on edge, accompanied by an acidity which would turn the sweet milk of a whole dairy, and an awkwardness of deportment which would make the monkey blush blue for his resemblance.
(Vol. 1,p. 75)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
This is another professor, one of your hoolly and fairly men, one of your courtiers of the toon cooncil, and assenters to all established doctrines. He would be a very amusing lecturer, for he tells stories by the hour, if the broad accent of Edinburgh vulgarity did not render him unintelligible to polished ears.
(Vol. 1,p. 144)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage

Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
Moreover, if any one be particularly eager to learn broad Scotch, the professor is fully qualified to be his master in that desirable branch of education .
(Vol. 1,p. 148)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage, Vocabulary

Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage, Vocabulary
Archy violently drives in an old street offender, who was apprehended for the twofold offence of street-walking, and nimming a wipe, as it is called in the flash language, but in plain English, for stealing a pocket handkerchief.
(Vol. 3,p. 40)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
Speakers: All , Jacky, interlocutor
On his entering the hotel, Jacky! the chambermaid exclaimed, "Sir, you've gotten a blue ee ." * "I have got two," replied he; "but I met with a blackguard of your country, and he has run against me, and just left his mark." " It's awful," cried Jacky. " Aye ," replied our young friend, "and I have got my pantaloons torn besides." " Eh! mercy! weel, but," added Jacky, "it might ha been war (worse) , for I can mend them for you." So saying, our youth went to bed, and I saw nothing of him until he appeared at dinner. He told us, laughing, that Jacky had mended his breeks , as she called them .
* The Scotch call a black eye a blue eye .
(Vol. 1,p. 119-120)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Extract #1 dialect features: Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling
Speakers: All , Mr Ooronooko
Mr. Ooronooko, take a tumbler of wine, and I will answer your divine mistress." "Tank ye , Massa , mi drink your hell , but Missy say tell to mi dat di note vant no answer" ; and, as he was going out, muttered something quite unintelligible .
(Vol. 2,p. 39-40)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
"There could na be too great a punishment for her" said Baillie Crockery. "She juist deserved to be haung-ed," (laying great stress on the ed ) observed Baillie Candles. "She shud be whip- ed through the toon naked" cried Baillie Blueruin, "for he wud like to hae a peep." "No, that would be im-more-al, " cried Baillie Snuffy the haberdasher. "The limmer , I hae nae patience wi' her, for thrusting hersel amongst honest men's wives and daughters," exclaimed Baillie Grocery. In short, it was "Tot homines tot sententiae."
At length, Lord Stone was examined in her behalf. "Is he really a lord?" said the senior baillie. "Aye, I believe sae ," replied a tailor baillie. "Let us treat him like a nobleman wi' a' distinction," exclaims the junior baillie. "He's vara rich, an pays like a prince," whispers Archy in the clerk's ear. "Let us offer his lordship a seat," suggests one. "Let us kiss his haund as a mark o' oor respeck ," says another. " Hoot man," says a third, "that wad only be askin an honor o' his lordship; it wud be far mair becomin o' the cooncil wi' a' humility to kiss his--his--his foot; or some ither less dignifeed place."
(Vol. 3,p. 30-32)
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Unknown Author (1828)
Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Satirical; Two unspecified villages on the coast and the interior of Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
2. narrator
Speakers: All , Nancy, narrator
In a short time, an elderly woman, who had been standing at the grave, rushed through the crowd, and throwing herself on her knees, clasped her arms about Edmund. Setting up a wild cry, in wihch she was joined by all the other keeners present, who accompanied her in a kind of mounrful recitative, perculiar I believe to the lamentation of the Irish, she addressed Edmund thus:
" Arra cushla-ma-chree , is it yourself that's there, stretched on the corp of your own dear father; och , och , its a black day for you a vourneen , and for us all. Look up, jewel, and see who's by you, acushla , one that loves the ground you walk on; that nursed you at her own breast and gave you the veins of her heart to feed on. Oh! lanna , lanna , never more will the eye of father and mother smile upon you: they lie low, that lov'd you, a-cushla , as never child was lov'd . Silent and low do they lie -- and knows not that the pride of their eyes is bent over them in sorrow; but now without father, without mother, -- friend or brother; for my darlin' , I doubt you'll hardly find the welcome of a brother from them that ought to give it to you.
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Unknown Author (1828)
Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Satirical; Two unspecified villages on the coast and the interior of Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
3. narrator
Next morning, she went to the Parsonage, and had a long interview with Edmund, exerting all her eloquence to forward the priest's views, but in vain. O'Hara declared he would neither go to his brother's, nor Father Luke's.
"And dear jewel?," said nurse, "when will you be made a priest? for you know, that's what your dear father, Lord receive him, wished you to be."
"I will never enter the Church, nurse," replied Edmund.
After a few of her usual crossings and exclamations, she asked what he meant to do. He said he could not tell at present, that he had formed no plan of life yet.
"But sure , a-cushla , you're not going to turn?"
"What do you mean nurse?"
" Sure you would'nt leave the true Church, jewel?"
"And what if I did? in my opinion one Church is as true as another."
"God forgive you, dear, for saying that, any way; sure there's but the one true Church, and that's our own, a-vourneen ."
"Nonsense, nurse, don't believe this, one sort will go to heaven, as soon as another."
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