West Country dialect

GPTKB entity

Statements (78)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dialect
gptkbp:hasFeature rhoticity
use of 'thee' and 'thou'
distinctive vowel sounds
use of 'be' for 'am/is/are'
use of 'z' for 's'
use of 'bain't' for 'is not'
use of 'where be' for 'where is'
use of 'ark' for 'listen'
use of 'bist' for 'are'
use of 'bump' for 'rabbit'
use of 'cally' for 'cold'
use of 'chucky' for 'chicken'
use of 'daps' for 'plimsolls'
use of 'drashel' for 'threshing tool'
use of 'dreckly' for 'directly/soon'
use of 'ee' for 'you'
use of 'emmet' for 'ant' or 'tourist'
use of 'grockle' for 'tourist'
use of 'gurt lush' for 'very nice'
use of 'gurt' for 'great'
use of 'maid' for 'girl'
use of 'mizzle' for 'drizzle'
use of 'pisky' for 'pixie'
use of 'proper' as intensifier
use of 'scat' for 'throw'
use of 'scrumpy' for 'cider'
use of 'tizzy' for 'state of confusion'
use of 'tump' for 'small hill'
use of 'twitten' for 'alleyway'
use of 'vug' for 'cavity in rock'
use of 'vurriner' for 'foreigner'
use of 'wazzock' for 'fool'
use of 'yarg' for 'cheese'
use of 'zart' for 'soft'
use of 'zawn' for 'sea cave'
use of 'zider' for 'cider'
use of 'zummer' for 'summer'
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label West Country dialect
gptkbp:ISO639-3 eng
gptkbp:languageFamily English
gptkbp:notableBook gptkb:Far_from_the_Madding_Crowd
gptkb:The_Mayor_of_Casterbridge
gptkb:Under_the_Greenwood_Tree
gptkb:Lorna_Doone
gptkb:Jan_Stewer_stories
gptkb:Poems_of_William_Barnes
gptkb:The_Somerset_and_Dorset_Dialect
gptkbp:notableSpeaker gptkb:The_Wurzels
gptkb:Adge_Cutler
gptkb:Thomas_Hardy
gptkb:A._L._Rowse
gptkb:Fred_Wedlock
gptkb:Jan_Stewer
gptkb:William_Barnes
gptkb:R._D._Blackmore
gptkb:John_Arlott
gptkb:Cecil_Sharp
gptkbp:region gptkb:Bristol
gptkb:Cornwall
gptkb:Devon
gptkb:Gloucestershire
gptkb:Somerset
gptkb:Worcestershire
gptkb:Dorset
gptkb:Herefordshire
gptkb:Isles_of_Scilly
gptkb:Wiltshire
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Cornish_dialect
gptkb:Devon_dialect
gptkb:Somerset_dialect
gptkb:Dorset_dialect
gptkb:Bristolian_dialect
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:South_West_England
gptkbp:status endangered
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:West_Country_English
gptkb:West_Country,_England
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7