By Martyn F. Wakelin
The amount includes a considerable creation, supplying a geographical and historic define of the world, an account of the beginning of the realm, an account of the beginning of present-day southwestern speech types and a synopsis in their major positive factors. this can be by means of texts of 3 major varieties: short decisions from 17th to 19th century dialect writers, geared toward depicting features of southwestern speech; longer 20th century texts – verse, discussion in novels; transcripts from tapes from 1950 onwards of audio system of alternative a long time and social backgrounds. part of every one transcript can also be supplied in phonetic notation.
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The uses of the v b . do 17 (in p r . and p . t . , are On these, see Wakelin 1975: 177. -forms. I regard bain't / bant as a blend of be + ain't / aren't, rather than simply be + -n't, since SW be does not show / b ε ∫ / forms. C f . Baugner 1 9 7 2 : 4 4 - 5 . SOUTHWEST ENGLAND Map 9 . 7). 37 38 MÄRTYN F. WAKELIN extended in two small SW areas (plus one in Monmouthshire and Gloucs / Avon, which, however, includes Bristol) - central and W. : I d' know do' go, etc. The areas concerned may once have been part of a single, large area: EVG (para.
3 whip (under Swingletree). The spelling een 'in' in the written texts reflects a close, and sometimes lengthened, variety of / ι / in this word also heard on the tape-recs. (cf. 6). 2. RP / ε / (ME e) . g. in fresh, hedge, egg, leg; ash, old-fashioned, thatch, bag, tag; wash (see the SEV entries where available). 1), dead (VIII. ) are rec. / and /e:/ (= [e: ]~ [e∫]~ [ε∫] ) , a small area of /je/ also occurring in the first of these in E. Wilts and NW Berks. 3. RP /a/ (ME a). This is /a/, realised as [a] in most of the SW, but as a raised variety [æ] in much of central, S.
My brother says'. brother 7. The indef. art. 8; wakelin 1975: 179). In T18, it also precedes the name of the months. 8. Omission of the def. art. is relatively frequent (see Barry, in Wakelin 19721 :174). to 9 for (to) + inf. is widespread in dialect, but in the S. the is often completely absorbed, so that for stands alone. III. Lexis The older rural and fishing dialects of the SW retain substantial numbers of words associated with the traditional language of the area18. 18 For the more precise distributions of the words cited here, see SEV, LAE and WGE, where appropriate, and Fischer 1976.
