The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-13
! Study SOUTHERN Dialect.
BY IL e
THOMPSON.

{ together as theysare taken from the am.
i mai. The three taken together are cali
/ ed In some sections the pluck. while IN
Others. they are. called the ..haslet or
ha rslet. 80 This is a word which Is found
{ IN Cook s Voyages, as in the sentences:
s..,Thetr haslers are equal to that Of the
shop ~ Ilyebster4 considers 'whack' yul-
gar but. I find itseyen among educated
neonte. The Ingoldsby Legends has this
sentsnee blow descended-it was
wback. ~. Field also uses the word IN
this ..F atber whacks her. and the chill
dren IN turns The word wh1ip,s th lns
i l,eins> sounded as in full. IS In constant
i3so "a mong us, instead of whip. The
Welch. ,derivativc is "whap,. with broad
> also the form ..whop' is found, both
| meaning to strike with blows. It may
10 that s..whup'' is a corruption OF these
ar may revert to 'wuppen, a.i1oW
tc,erman word, and be derived theretrom.
"Wha pper',,s is term meaning excessive
" large and is applied to anything I'M
reasonab1e as ne toto a. Wilappei.
m ming that his story was not true.
However..tI1e word is English and not
|. American. for ST. James Gazette says:
mNot content with two whoppers' Surtees
goes on. etc. - go, lin,
or Using the word chest, lnrS Is h, noe an
.m,siip5tp accumulation retained by our
conssrvatisrn. This was formerly the cor.
spelling Ling and nf t and
ntaer. forms which are not now in IN i good
taste among the cultured. l ina tns Wy sa
iiS.'kittle in common use ,n nne we trace
S 70 10 aet the Anslo-saxon .cytel.',' There is
word among the se9teh wh hisk1iT me"o or
not. vessel, but .k att tho nronuncia-
| ton OF the one has been transas,neo 80 ~
! the other. L have tried to account rsr
the Pronanel yal11 shSre but there is
nothing in the cognate tongues s 10 ne sl w
| us the otner PRONUNCIATION sure n ns ~ =
| certain or secure: There IS use " sun mn
| word shore which means n prop d sup
port When a building was leanlnEs: sons SOM,
! what the workmen placed a Sllo . =
against it. It may be THAI IN some sh hore se
I. cured the house, and made it sure against
falling. so the two ideas became one.
give this as a probable expl l na;sb IN
word "forninst meaning opposite l,sd :.
found the same word IN some Speclnie e.l
of Scotch literature when l Hare ,,, en
but spell it. Torment This last is a
combination of two words. fore, ana ana
anent the first meaning nefo ore tn neo laSs
| he works like forty" I did not. see why
he could not work like forty 20. OF AN any
i les found that there is in the old Eng
liah: a term forty corresponding to the
| Latin word. forte, bravely. This accounts
/ for the use OF this peculiar term as ap,,
piled to work or any aet ts or The clerk e.S
J in any other way than CLARK" I no
tsed that the Rev F. M R,e5 of Gh r St
| year spoke Of his clark" when referring
to his clerk. I suppose If We want to
I be in touch with the very best English,
that of the metropolis. London. we must
go back to the pronunciati.n Of our
| fathers. which swe can still find in the
! hooks and corners of our Southland,
! These words which are here given do
not by any means exhaust the list but
will serve to illustrate these. old word
forms and pronunciations. In the next pa
/ per shall give a more extended account
| of the verb forms and their use as well
as their source I have learned to re-
! spect these old terms and love those who
| use them The words and the people
! who use them seem to me to be links
J which bind us to the past when our for
bears" followed the chase in the Bonnie
I TIielands' 'or .daunced aneath the green
] wood tree" in ''Merrie England