Vocabulary of Midlothian Dialect in 1905

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


1.    water           waiterr
2.    fire           fyrre
3.    sun           sunn
4.    moon           muin
5.    wind           wunnd
6.    rain           rrain


1.    one           yen
2.    two           twaw
3.    three           thrree
4.    four           fowerr
5.    five           five
6.    six           sax


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


1.    white           hwite
2.    black           bleck
3.    red           rred
4.    green           grreen
5.    yellow           yelly
6.    blue           bliw
7.    grey           grray
8.    brown           brroon


Midlothian dialect was spoken in

Edinburgh
Leith


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