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Thread #53749   Message #829251
Posted By: GUEST,adavis@truman.edu
18-Nov-02 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK dialect help
Subject: RE: BS: UK dialect help
You folks are great -- the Dutton ref was helpful; I'll hunt for the book (a record too, I gather). There's a bit on the web, and it appears that the verb-forms (art, hast, dost) survive too--http://www.homestead.com/pendle/TWANG.html

For the US, I have a c. 1800 grammar book that lists the forms, but notes that they're only used by farmers and the uneducated (approximate quote from memory).

Adam