Vocabulary of Suffolk Dialect in 1905

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


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


1.    one           one
2.    two           tiw
3.    three           three
4.    four           four
5.    five           foive
6.    six           six


1.    cat           cæt
2.    dog          
3.    horse           hoss
4.    cow           cayoo
5.    fish          
6.    bird           bard
7.    tree          
8.    flower          


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


Suffolk dialect was spoken in

Ipswich
Bury St Edmunds
Sudbury
Lavenham
Long Melford
Newmarket
Stowmarket
Framlingham
Aldeburgh
Lowestoft
Mildenhall
Felixstowe
Woodbridge
Debenham
Stoke-by-Nayland
Beccles
Clare
Leiston
Hadleigh
Kersey
Orford
Southwold


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