Vocabulary of Lanarkshire Dialect in 1905

1.    mother           mitherr
2.    father           faitherr
3.    sister           sisterr
4.    brother          
5.    daughter           dochterr
6.    son           son


1.    water           wa’err
2.    fire           fyrre
3.    sun           sunn
4.    moon           min
5.    wind          
6.    rain           rrain


1.    one           yin
2.    two           twa
3.    three           thrree
4.    four           fowerr
5.    five           five
6.    six          


1.    cat           cat
2.    dog           dawg
3.    horse           horrse
4.    cow           coo
5.    fish           fushsh
6.    bird          
7.    tree          
8.    flower           floorr


1.    white           hwate
2.    black           black
3.    red           rreed
4.    green           grreen
5.    yellow          
6.    blue          
7.    grey           grray
8.    brown           brrun


Lanarkshire dialect was spoken in

Glasgow
Motherwell
Hamilton
Lanark


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