Vocabulary of Sussex Dialect in 1905

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


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


1.    one           one
2.    two           two
3.    three           dree
4.    four           fower
5.    five           foive
6.    six           zix


1.    cat           cæt
2.    dog           dawg
3.    horse           ’oss
4.    cow           cayoo
5.    fish           fish
6.    bird          
7.    tree           tree
8.    flower          


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


Sussex dialect was spoken in

Chichester
Lewes
Crawley
Horsham
Midhurst
Eastbourne
Arundel
Brighton
Shoreham-by-Sea
Hove
Hastings
Lancing
Pevensey
Worthing


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