The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129785   Message #2938459
Posted By: GUEST,yorky
02-Jul-10 - 08:02 AM
Thread Name: Saddleworth Festival - 16-18 July, 2010
Subject: RE: Saddleworth Festival - 16-18 July, 2010
'Here's an example, from Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey of 1847, in the Yorkshire dialect speech of a servant: "But next day, afore I'd gotten fettled up — for indeed, Miss, I'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling, an' washing pots; so I sat me down i' th' muck —'