Vocabulary of Dorset Dialect in 1905

1.    mother           mother
2.    father           vathther
3.    sister           zester
4.    brother          
5.    daughter           dahter
6.    son           zunn


1.    water           wahter
2.    fire           vire
3.    sun           zunn
4.    moon           mooan
5.    wind           weund
6.    rain           rine


1.    one           one
2.    two           two
3.    three           dree
4.    four           vower
5.    five           vive
6.    six           zix


1.    cat           cat
2.    dog           dahg
3.    horse           ’arse
4.    cow           cow
5.    fish          
6.    bird          
7.    tree           try
8.    flower           vlower


1.    white           white
2.    black           blæck
3.    red           rid
4.    green           grane
5.    yellow          
6.    blue          
7.    grey           gree
8.    brown           brown


Dorset dialect was spoken in

Dorchester
Swanage
Bridport
Weymouth
Lyme Regis
Poole
Shaftesbury
Sherborne


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