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Foster, Mrs E. M. (1800)
Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Cornwall;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Grammar, Idiom, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction
Speakers: All , Mrs Wilson
A tall thin female, of a most shewy appearance, came up close to Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick, and making two very low curtsies close before them, said-- "How d'ye do, Mem ? How d'ye do, Sir? Welcome to our parts ; I shall be happy to see you at Burtel."
Mortimer disguised not his mirth at this speech .
(Vol. 1,p. 121)Mortimer disguised not his mirth at this speech .
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Foster, Mrs E. M. (1800)
Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Cornwall;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Speakers: All , Mr Jones; Miss Davis; others
Sir, what men of learning have you here--what men of letters? Have you reading rooms, and clubs for litterhairy people?"
" Oh yes, Mem , we have plenty of them there circulating libraries."
"My good Sir, but they are composed of Novels I suppose?"
" No, Mem ,: I beg your pardon, Mem ,; but we gets the news there too, London as well as Exeter. I read 'em myself most days in the week, for I've a turn for reading myself."
[some text omitted]
"Have you read the Puzzles of Litterhater ?" said Miss Davis, drawing up her head majestically.
"No, Miss, can't say I have."
The young gentleman looked at Henrietta. She smiled, and turned towards her protector, who, looking at Miriam, smiled also; and this little mistake of Miss Davis's had made four of the party more sociable in a single moment, than otherwise they might have been in a week.
[some text omitted]
"Indeed, Miss," said Mr. Jones, "I should like to get the book for my wife and daughter to read; for when they set about their fiddle-faddles , and their gimcracks, card-paper hornaments , as they call 'em , and their fillagers , and the rest of their sticking works, they make a fine mess, and a deuced litter too, and there's nobody hates a litter more than I do."-- The young lady could no longer resist her propensity to laugh. -- "And I suppose, Miss, this book as you mentioned, a litter hater , has something to say about them there things."
(Vol. 1,p. 225-228)" Oh yes, Mem , we have plenty of them there circulating libraries."
"My good Sir, but they are composed of Novels I suppose?"
" No, Mem ,: I beg your pardon, Mem ,; but we gets the news there too, London as well as Exeter. I read 'em myself most days in the week, for I've a turn for reading myself."
[some text omitted]
"Have you read the Puzzles of Litterhater ?" said Miss Davis, drawing up her head majestically.
"No, Miss, can't say I have."
The young gentleman looked at Henrietta. She smiled, and turned towards her protector, who, looking at Miriam, smiled also; and this little mistake of Miss Davis's had made four of the party more sociable in a single moment, than otherwise they might have been in a week.
[some text omitted]
"Indeed, Miss," said Mr. Jones, "I should like to get the book for my wife and daughter to read; for when they set about their fiddle-faddles , and their gimcracks, card-paper hornaments , as they call 'em , and their fillagers , and the rest of their sticking works, they make a fine mess, and a deuced litter too, and there's nobody hates a litter more than I do."-- The young lady could no longer resist her propensity to laugh. -- "And I suppose, Miss, this book as you mentioned, a litter hater , has something to say about them there things."
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Foster, Mrs E. M. (1800)
Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Cornwall;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Speakers: All , Mr Jones; Miss Davis; others
Sir, what men of learning have you here--what men of letters? Have you reading rooms, and clubs for litterhairy people?"
" Oh yes, Mem , we have plenty of them there circulating libraries."
"My good Sir, but they are composed of Novels I suppose?"
" No, Mem ,: I beg your pardon, Mem ,; but we gets the news there too, London as well as Exeter. I read 'em myself most days in the week, for I've a turn for reading myself."
[some text omitted]
"Have you read the Puzzles of Litterhater ?" said Miss Davis, drawing up her head majestically.
"No, Miss, can't say I have."
The young gentleman looked at Henrietta. She smiled, and turned towards her protector, who, looking at Miriam, smiled also; and this little mistake of Miss Davis's had made four of the party more sociable in a single moment, than otherwise they might have been in a week.
[some text omitted]
"Indeed, Miss," said Mr. Jones, "I should like to get the book for my wife and daughter to read; for when they set about their fiddle-faddles , and their gimcracks, card-paper hornaments , as they call 'em , and their fillagers , and the rest of their sticking works, they make a fine mess, and a deuced litter too, and there's nobody hates a litter more than I do."-- The young lady could no longer resist her propensity to laugh. -- "And I suppose, Miss, this book as you mentioned, a litter hater , has something to say about them there things."
(Vol. 1,p. 225-228)" Oh yes, Mem , we have plenty of them there circulating libraries."
"My good Sir, but they are composed of Novels I suppose?"
" No, Mem ,: I beg your pardon, Mem ,; but we gets the news there too, London as well as Exeter. I read 'em myself most days in the week, for I've a turn for reading myself."
[some text omitted]
"Have you read the Puzzles of Litterhater ?" said Miss Davis, drawing up her head majestically.
"No, Miss, can't say I have."
The young gentleman looked at Henrietta. She smiled, and turned towards her protector, who, looking at Miriam, smiled also; and this little mistake of Miss Davis's had made four of the party more sociable in a single moment, than otherwise they might have been in a week.
[some text omitted]
"Indeed, Miss," said Mr. Jones, "I should like to get the book for my wife and daughter to read; for when they set about their fiddle-faddles , and their gimcracks, card-paper hornaments , as they call 'em , and their fillagers , and the rest of their sticking works, they make a fine mess, and a deuced litter too, and there's nobody hates a litter more than I do."-- The young lady could no longer resist her propensity to laugh. -- "And I suppose, Miss, this book as you mentioned, a litter hater , has something to say about them there things."
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Meeke, Mary (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; English country houses;
Dialect Speakers
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Vocabulary
"I shall be in better spirits by and by, Mama," cried Betsey, "if you would but give me something to eat."
"What a gut do you grow!" politely observed the sister.
"I am sure I an't half so greedy as you are, Patty," was the retort courteous, while their mother asked the new comers if they chose any soup; adding, by way of tempting them to taste it, "We had a leg of mutton for dinner yesterday, and this is the liquor it was boiled in, stewed up with some split pease. I always endeavour to make the most of everything."
(Vol. 1,p. 177)"What a gut do you grow!" politely observed the sister.
"I am sure I an't half so greedy as you are, Patty," was the retort courteous, while their mother asked the new comers if they chose any soup; adding, by way of tempting them to taste it, "We had a leg of mutton for dinner yesterday, and this is the liquor it was boiled in, stewed up with some split pease. I always endeavour to make the most of everything."
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Meeke, Mary (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; English country houses;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Speakers: All , Mrs. Mackintosh
" Nae be surprised, gentlemen," she said, "to find, though we have got sic a large and gude hoose , that we prefer the back to the front of it. 'Tis my fancy, and my gude mon loves his Moggy sae weel , that he seldom contradicts her. I prefer comfort to shew , ye ken ; and though I live in my kitchen aw winter, I flatter mysel 'tis as clean as ony parlour in summer. I like the rooms next the street ; but here I can enjoy the morning sun, which delights me during my breakfast. We eat our dinner hot from the fire, and my tea is as gude again when my water is nae carried about frae the kitchen to the parlour; and this ye shall experience, my gude friends, for I wish ye to remember the comfortable dish of tea that ye met with at Sandy Mackintosh's that ye may be tempted to visit us again, though ye were received in a kitchen." [some narrative omitted]
(S)he declared, "if she had but had sic a bairn by her dear Sandy, she should be the happiest woman in aw Britain." [some narrative omitted]
She was pressing them to taste some cracknels , a sort of cake peculiar to the island , when a violent ringing at the street-door made her exclaim-- "Here comes my torment ; step and let the foolish fellow in, Mary," turning to her assistant rather than her servant, "for ten to one if ony of his men are at hame . 'Tis a pure silly body of a Baronet, an Officer in one of the regiments now here, wha , taking advantage of my gude temper, prevailed upon me to take him into my hoose ; but if I could once see the back of him, he should nae darken my doors again." [some narrative omitted] " Ye are parfectly reeght , my gude friend. I have heard this hopeful sprig of Nobility tauk about Winchester." [some narrative omitted]
" Yere fellows, Sir Peter, are nae in my keeping; I nae ken nor care what has got them; perhaps they are gone to the ball."
(Vol. 1,p. 226-229)(S)he declared, "if she had but had sic a bairn by her dear Sandy, she should be the happiest woman in aw Britain." [some narrative omitted]
She was pressing them to taste some cracknels , a sort of cake peculiar to the island , when a violent ringing at the street-door made her exclaim-- "Here comes my torment ; step and let the foolish fellow in, Mary," turning to her assistant rather than her servant, "for ten to one if ony of his men are at hame . 'Tis a pure silly body of a Baronet, an Officer in one of the regiments now here, wha , taking advantage of my gude temper, prevailed upon me to take him into my hoose ; but if I could once see the back of him, he should nae darken my doors again." [some narrative omitted] " Ye are parfectly reeght , my gude friend. I have heard this hopeful sprig of Nobility tauk about Winchester." [some narrative omitted]
" Yere fellows, Sir Peter, are nae in my keeping; I nae ken nor care what has got them; perhaps they are gone to the ball."
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Meeke, Mary (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; English country houses;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Vocabulary
"oh how sweet that dear little brogue sounds in my Irish ears," cried one of the party; "we are most of us your Lordship's countrymen, and would all have been murdered, do you see, before your grandson should have come to any harm. To be sure, it was an Irish lad gave him those ugly thumps upon his face; but we have done for the spalpeen ; he won't be after kidnapping another great man in a hurry! The devil burn me if he ought not to have been roasted by the fire we made of his goods."
(Vol. 2,p. 242)
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Selden, Catharine (1800)
Courtship; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Sentimental; England - country estate in Skipton; Baden, Germany;
Dialect Speakers
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
"But, my dear Sir," interrupted Mrs. Powis, "you must confess that there is at least ample field for ridicule in their horrid, uncouth mode of speaking the barbarous names they give places, the prejudices, and national pride of the Irish."
"I am sorry, my dear Emily," returned Lord Somerset, "to see you so little understand the terms you have made use of, English as they are, as I think otherwise you would not lay yourself so entirely open to the retort courteous. In regard to the Irish accent, which I acknowledge I have scarcely met any persons of that country entirely free from, you must permit me to say I think it infinitely preferable to the provincial jargon of many English counties; because the language is always good, though the pronunciation may be faulty. As for the barbarous names you mention, for Heaven's sake, recollect those of Cornwall, which is, in fact, your native country. "
The Peer paused; but his niece remaining silent, he added--
"I confess I have no patience with the arrogant absurdity one so often meets with in Novels, where the author criticizes and ridicules the language of the Irish, in a broad Yorkshire, or West country dialect."
"Yet, notwithstanding all you have said, my dear uncle," resumed the fair widow, "I cannot believe but there must be much more truth than you are willing to allow in this satire on the Irish; else would you see so many of that country, as you may do daily, evidently ashamed of having been born on the other side of the Channel?"
"What you now mention," said his Lordship, "has long struck me as being a very great absurdity, totally unworthy of the understanding of many persons who one sees cherish it; and it certainly gives infinite force to those illiberal sarcasms, that would else only excite the contemptuous smile, and be forgotten. The Irish are also apt to run into a contrary extreme, in being vain of the title of Hibernians; and I have more than once met with Irish persons in England, whose manners, and still more their accent, were in the style of the most vulgar Milesian's, whom I have afterwards seen in the polite circles of Dublin, and who would there have blushed at the very idea of making use of an Hibernianism.
(Vol. 2,p. 152-57)"I am sorry, my dear Emily," returned Lord Somerset, "to see you so little understand the terms you have made use of, English as they are, as I think otherwise you would not lay yourself so entirely open to the retort courteous. In regard to the Irish accent, which I acknowledge I have scarcely met any persons of that country entirely free from, you must permit me to say I think it infinitely preferable to the provincial jargon of many English counties; because the language is always good, though the pronunciation may be faulty. As for the barbarous names you mention, for Heaven's sake, recollect those of Cornwall, which is, in fact, your native country. "
The Peer paused; but his niece remaining silent, he added--
"I confess I have no patience with the arrogant absurdity one so often meets with in Novels, where the author criticizes and ridicules the language of the Irish, in a broad Yorkshire, or West country dialect."
"Yet, notwithstanding all you have said, my dear uncle," resumed the fair widow, "I cannot believe but there must be much more truth than you are willing to allow in this satire on the Irish; else would you see so many of that country, as you may do daily, evidently ashamed of having been born on the other side of the Channel?"
"What you now mention," said his Lordship, "has long struck me as being a very great absurdity, totally unworthy of the understanding of many persons who one sees cherish it; and it certainly gives infinite force to those illiberal sarcasms, that would else only excite the contemptuous smile, and be forgotten. The Irish are also apt to run into a contrary extreme, in being vain of the title of Hibernians; and I have more than once met with Irish persons in England, whose manners, and still more their accent, were in the style of the most vulgar Milesian's, whom I have afterwards seen in the polite circles of Dublin, and who would there have blushed at the very idea of making use of an Hibernianism.
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Selden, Catharine (1800)
Courtship; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Sentimental; England - country estate in Skipton; Baden, Germany;
Dialect Speakers
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
"But, my dear Sir," interrupted Mrs. Powis, "you must confess that there is at least ample field for ridicule in their horrid, uncouth mode of speaking the barbarous names they give places, the prejudices, and national pride of the Irish."
"I am sorry, my dear Emily," returned Lord Somerset, "to see you so little understand the terms you have made use of, English as they are, as I think otherwise you would not lay yourself so entirely open to the retort courteous. In regard to the Irish accent, which I acknowledge I have scarcely met any persons of that country entirely free from, you must permit me to say I think it infinitely preferable to the provincial jargon of many English counties; because the language is always good, though the pronunciation may be faulty. As for the barbarous names you mention, for Heaven's sake, recollect those of Cornwall, which is, in fact, your native country. "
The Peer paused; but his niece remaining silent, he added--
"I confess I have no patience with the arrogant absurdity one so often meets with in Novels, where the author criticizes and ridicules the language of the Irish, in a broad Yorkshire, or West country dialect."
"Yet, notwithstanding all you have said, my dear uncle," resumed the fair widow, "I cannot believe but there must be much more truth than you are willing to allow in this satire on the Irish; else would you see so many of that country, as you may do daily, evidently ashamed of having been born on the other side of the Channel?"
"What you now mention," said his Lordship, "has long struck me as being a very great absurdity, totally unworthy of the understanding of many persons who one sees cherish it; and it certainly gives infinite force to those illiberal sarcasms, that would else only excite the contemptuous smile, and be forgotten. The Irish are also apt to run into a contrary extreme, in being vain of the title of Hibernians; and I have more than once met with Irish persons in England, whose manners, and still more their accent, were in the style of the most vulgar Milesian's, whom I have afterwards seen in the polite circles of Dublin, and who would there have blushed at the very idea of making use of an Hibernianism.
(Vol. 2,p. 152-57)"I am sorry, my dear Emily," returned Lord Somerset, "to see you so little understand the terms you have made use of, English as they are, as I think otherwise you would not lay yourself so entirely open to the retort courteous. In regard to the Irish accent, which I acknowledge I have scarcely met any persons of that country entirely free from, you must permit me to say I think it infinitely preferable to the provincial jargon of many English counties; because the language is always good, though the pronunciation may be faulty. As for the barbarous names you mention, for Heaven's sake, recollect those of Cornwall, which is, in fact, your native country. "
The Peer paused; but his niece remaining silent, he added--
"I confess I have no patience with the arrogant absurdity one so often meets with in Novels, where the author criticizes and ridicules the language of the Irish, in a broad Yorkshire, or West country dialect."
"Yet, notwithstanding all you have said, my dear uncle," resumed the fair widow, "I cannot believe but there must be much more truth than you are willing to allow in this satire on the Irish; else would you see so many of that country, as you may do daily, evidently ashamed of having been born on the other side of the Channel?"
"What you now mention," said his Lordship, "has long struck me as being a very great absurdity, totally unworthy of the understanding of many persons who one sees cherish it; and it certainly gives infinite force to those illiberal sarcasms, that would else only excite the contemptuous smile, and be forgotten. The Irish are also apt to run into a contrary extreme, in being vain of the title of Hibernians; and I have more than once met with Irish persons in England, whose manners, and still more their accent, were in the style of the most vulgar Milesian's, whom I have afterwards seen in the polite circles of Dublin, and who would there have blushed at the very idea of making use of an Hibernianism.
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Courtship; Domestic; Gothic; Yorkshire
;
Dialect Speakers
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Idiom, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling
" Aboot three moiles an end ," answered the man in his Yorkshire dialect . "And is it," said I, "a ruin like this?" -- He answered that it was deserted now of all of its inhabitants, because the family it had belonged to were all either dead, or gone "beyond sea." My curiosity being farther excited, I learned that the Abbey had been, to use my conductor's phrase, made into a house by a great rich family, "Romans, though, Romans;" which on being explained, I found meant that they were of the Roman Catholic religion . .
(Vol. 1,p. 18)
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Courtship; Domestic; Gothic; Yorkshire
;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
Speakers: All , Solitary Wanderer (first person narrator)
It is easier, I believe, to write an Arabian tale, with necromancers and genii, than to collect, as Richardson does, a set of characters acting and speaking so exactly as such people so circumstanced would act and speak in real life, that we almost doubt whether the scenes and the actors are merely imaginary.
(Vol. 1,p. 222)