I didn't say they were actually using those words, SRS. He grew up in North Antrim but I don't suppose that those cases had actually been in common use anywhere in Ireland, apart from
people like Quakers, for some considerable time before my Dad went to school. It would seem that in those days things didn't change in education as quickly as they do now.

And Michael, I have been trying to think how one would use 'wast' but I'm at loss for a phrase.