Vocabulary of Gloucestershire Dialect in 1905

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


1.    water           wahter
2.    fire           foir
3.    sun          
4.    moon          
5.    wind          
6.    rain          


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


1.    cat           cyat
2.    dog          
3.    horse           ’ahs
4.    cow           cuw
5.    fish          
6.    bird          
7.    tree          
8.    flower          


1.    white           white
2.    black          
3.    red          
4.    green          
5.    yellow           yalla
6.    blue          
7.    grey          
8.    brown          


Gloucestershire dialect was spoken in

Gloucester
Bristol
Cheltenham
Tewkesbury
Stow-on-the-Wold
Cirencester
Fairford
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Camden
Stroud
Bourton-on-the-Water


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