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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"

In the Western parts
of Somersetshire, as well as in Devonshire, _Ise_ is now used
very generally for I. The Germans of the present day pronounce, I
understand, their _ich_ sometimes as it is pronounced in the
West, _Ise_, which is the sound we give to frozen water,
_ice_. See Miss Ham's letter, towards the conclusion of this
work.


V.

[The V is often substituted for f, as _vor_, for, _veo_,
few, &c.]

Vage, Vaze. _s_. A voyage; but more commonly applied to the
distance employed to increase the intensity of motion or action
from a given point.
To Vang. _v. a._ To receive; to earn.
Varden. _s._ Farthing.
Vare. _s._ A species of weasel.
To Vare. _v. n._ To bring forth young: applied to pigs and
some other animals.
Var'miut. _s._ A vermin.
Vaught. _part._ Fetched.
_Vur vaught,
And dear a-bought._
(i.e.) Far-fetched, and dear bought.

Vawth. _s._ A bank of dung or earth prepared for manure.
To Vay. _v. n._ To succeed; to turn out well; to go.


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