item: #1 of 6
          id: 17472
      author: Hartley, John
       title: Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings
        date: None
       words: 22673
      flesch: 89
     summary: Noa wayver i' th' world can produce a gooid clooath; Then let us endeavour, bi working and striving, To finish awr piece soa's noa fault can be fun; An' then i' return for awr pains an contriving, Th' takker in 'll reward us an' whisper' well done.' An' when aw wor gooin towards hooam Aw heeard som'dy comin behund: 'Twor pitch dark, an' aw thowt if they coom, Aw should varry near sink into th' graund.
    keywords: 'em; a'a; aat; aat o; abaat; able; aboon; advice; afoor; agean; aght; allus; amang; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw'st; aw've; awm; awr; becoss; bed; bein; best; better; big; bit; bit o; black; bless; body; bonny; booath; brass; burds; business; care; chap; cheer; child; childer; cold; come; comin; con; connot; contented; coom; craan; daan; daddy; dark; day; deal; dear; dooant; door; drop; een; enuff; face; fact; fancy; fear; feel; fine; fit; fooilish; fooils; fowk; friends; furst; gate; getten; goa; god; gooan; gooid; grand; haase; hall; hand; hard; hauf; hay; heart; heeard; help; honest; hooam; i'th; ivery; iverybody; joa; knows; lad; landlord; lass; laup; leaves; left; life; like; likely; little; livin; long; lot; love; luk; luk'd; lukkin; luks; maister; mak; maks; man; matter; mich; mind; month; mony; mooast; moor; mornin; mother; mud; mun; nah; native; nay; ne'er; need; neet; net; new; niver; noa; noabody; nobbut; nowt; o'th; old; ommost; ony; ovver; owd; past; persevere; piece; place; plenty; pocket; poor; raam; raand; rayther; reight; rest; schooil; sed; seem'd; set; sharp; shoo; shoo'd; sich; sin; sir; sister; soa; sooart; sooin; spaik; stand; start; stooan; street; summat; sun; sup; sure; swallow; sweet; taan; tak; talk; tear; tell; tha; tha'll; tha'rt; thee; ther; ther wor; things; think; thowt; throo; time; trouble; true; turn; twang; valentine; varry; want; wark; way; weel; whativer; whear; wife; wish; wodn't; woll; woman; wonder; wor; wor th; workin; world; wur; year; yo'll; yo've; yor; young
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 17799
      author: Hartley, John
       title: Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his Popular Writings
        date: None
       words: 21119
      flesch: 91
     summary: Aw've a rare lump o' beef on a dish, We've some bacon 'at's hung up o' th' thack, We've as mich gooid spike-cake as we wish, An' wi' currens its varry near black; We've a barrel o' gooid hooam brewed drink, We've a pack o' flaar reared agean th' clock, We've a load o' puttates under th' sink, An' then agean,--he goes on th' rant; Nah, that aw niver do;-- Aw allus mark misen content, Wi' an odd pint or two.
    keywords: a'a; abaat; able; advice; agean; aght; allus; ats; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; awm; awr; bad; becoss; bed; befoor; best; better; betty; billy; bit; bit o; black; bottle; brass; care; chap; chearman; childer; clooas; con; connot; content; coom; daan; daat; day; days; dear; deeal; deeath; dooant; door; drink; een; end; enuff; face; fair; far; fear; fine; fooil; fowk; fun; furst; gate; getten; gie; glad; goa; gooid; gronfayther; haase; hand; hard; hauf; heart; heead; help; honest; hooam; i'th; ivery; iverybody; jenny; jim; knows; lad; lads; lass; leet; left; legs; life; like; likely; little; live; long; lot; love; luk; luk'd; mak; maks; man; mean; men; mich; minit; misen; monny; month; mooast; moor; mornin; mother; mun; nah; nay; ne'er; near; need; neet; net; new; niver; noa; nobbut; nooan; nowt; o'th; oft; old; ony; ovver; owd; pay; pig; pint; place; poor; raand; rayther; reight; rest; rich; run; sad; sammy; sed; sense; set; shoo; shoo wor; shoo'd; shut; sich; sin; sit; soa; sooap; sooart; sooin; stand; stuff; summat; sure; sweet; tak; tawk; tell; tha; tha'd; tha'll; thease; thee; ther; ther wor; ther'd; thi; things; think; thinkin; tho; thowt; throo; time; traitle; true; twor; use; varry; wad; want; war; wark; way; ways; weel; whativer; whear; wick; wife; wish; withaat; wod; wodn't; wol; wonderful; wor; wor th; work; world; worth; wrang; year; yo'll; yo've; yor; young
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 19470
      author: Hartley, John
       title: Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect
        date: None
       words: 83127
      flesch: 93
     summary: If tha'll leeav it alooan it'll mell nooan o' thee, Put th' mustard spooin daan! Aw remember mi day dreeams o' fame,
    keywords: 'em; a'a; abaat; abaat th; able; aboon; act; advice; agean; aght; aght o; aght th; agree; allus; alooan; altho; amang; amang th; angels; annie; anxious; aw raillee; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw'st; aw've; away; awd; awl; awm; awr; axt; babby; bacca; bad; bairns; beauty; becoss; bed; befoor; bells; best; better; bide; big; billy; bit; bit o; bite; black; blame; bless; blessins; blind; bloom; blow; blue; body; bonnet; bonny; bonny mi; booath; bosom; boy; braik; brains; brass; brat; brave; breast; breath; breead; breet; briggate; bright; brokken; brother; browt; burds; buy; bye; c. aw; care; cat; cause; change; chap; charms; cheeks; cheer; childer; children; chonce; christmas; church; claim; clear; cleean; cloise; clooas; cold; come; comfort; commin; connot; content; contented; coom; coorse; cot; could'nt; country; courage; cry; curls; daan; daat; dad; daddy; dark; darling; day; days; dead; dear; debt; declare; deeath; deep; despair; dick; disgrace; ditherum; dooant; door; dream; drink; drinkin; drop; dry; dump; dunnot; duty; dwell; e'en; earth; easy; een; een wor; efforts; end; enuff; envy; eyes; face; face wor; fail; fain; fair; faith; fall; false; fancy; far; fast; fate; father; fault; fear; feeard; feel; feet; fell; fill; fill'd; find; fine; fire; fit; flaars; flags; flee; flew; flowers; fly; foir; fond; fooil; forget; form; fortun; fowk; fowk wi; free; freeat; fresh; friend; fun; furst; gain; garden; gate; gay; gets; getten; gie; gift; glad; glee; goa; god; gold; gooas; gooid; grand; gray; great; green; grey; grief; grieve; grondad; gronfayther; grow; growin; guess; haase; hair; hall; hand; happen; happiness; happy; hard; hat; hauf; hawf; heart; heart wor; hearted; heaven; heead; help; helpless; hide; hill; hissen; hold; home; honest; hooam; hope; hot; humble; hung; husband; i'th; inclined; ivvery; jack; jane; jenny; jim; jimmy; job; jockey; john; johnny; jolly; journey; joy; joys; kind; kindness; kiss; knee; know; kursmiss; labor; lad; lads; laff; land; lass; lasses; lassie; lat; leearn; leeav; leet; left; legs; let; lie; life; like; lily; limbs; lips; little; live; livin; long; look; lord; lost; lot; lot o; lots; love; lovely; loving; low; luck; luk; luk'd; lukkin; luks; lukt; mad; maid; maister; mak; mak th; makkin; maks; mammy; man; mark; mary; mate; matter; meal; meean; meet; men; mi day; mi heart; mi heead; mi lad; mi life; mi little; mi love; mi mother; mi old; mi poor; mi time; mi wark; mi way; mi wife; mich; mind; minnit; misen; missed; mistak; mistress; mooast; moor; morn; mornin; mortal; mother; muck; mud; mun; music; nah; native; nawther; nay; ne'er; near; need; neet; net; new; nice; nick; night; nivver; noa; nobbut; nooan; nooation; nook; nowt; nubdy; o'er; o'th; oft; old; ommost; ov ther; ovver; ovver th; owd; pain; pair; pale; parson; pass; past; patience; pay; persevere; pet; pig; pipe; pity; place; plan; play; pleasure; plenty; plenty o; poor; poor old; poverty; power; praad; praich; pray; prayer; prize; puddin; pure; queen; quiet; raand; raand th; race; rags; rayther; ready; reason; red; regret; reight; remember; rest; reward; rich; riches; river; roll; rooad; rough; round; run; sad; safe; sally; sam; schooil; scorn; sed; seek; seem'd; seen; sell; sense; set; setterdy; sewer; share; shed; shillin; shine; shoo; shoo sed; shoo wor; shoo'd; shoo'll; shop; short; shows; shut; shy; sich; sick; sigh; silent; simple; sin; sin th; sing; sink; sir; sister; sit; sky; sleep; small; smile; smilin; smook; snow; snug; soa; soa mi; soa th; soft; song; sooap; sooart; sooin; sorrow; soul; spaik; spend; spirits; spite; spot; spree; spring; stand; start; state; stay; stooan; stop; storm; straight; strange; street; strife; strong; stuck; stuff; suit; summat; summer; sun; sunderland; sundy; sunshine; sure; sweet; sweetest; taan; tak; tale; tawk; tear; teeth; tell; tell'd; tender; tha; tha'd; tha'll; tha'rt; thankful; thart; theas; thee; ther; ther life; ther wor; thersen; thi; thi heart; thi mi; thi time; things; think; thinkin; thisen; tho; tho th; thou; thought; thowt; throo; throo th; thy; time; tiny; tis; toil; tom; tongue; touch; track; traitle; treasure; trees; tricks; trifle; troubles; trubbles; true; trust; try; tuk; turn; twang; twor; uncle; unkind; vain; varry; voice; wages; waik; wait; waitin; walk; walkin; want; wark; warm; waste; watch; ways; we'st; wealth; weary; wedded; weddin; weel; welcome; whativver; whear; whispered; white; wi mi; wi th; wi ther; wick; wide; wife; wild; willin; willn't; wimmen; win; wind; wings; winnin; wisdom; wise; wish; withaat; wod; wodn't; woe; wol; woll; woman; wonder; wor; wor mi; wor soa; wor th; words; workin; world; worn; worth; wrang; years; yer; yo'd; yo'll; yo've; yor; yorksher; yorkshire; yorsen; young; yure
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 21785
      author: Barnes, William
       title: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
        date: None
       words: 102830
      flesch: 95
     summary: An' there they meäde sich stunnèn clatters Wi' knives an' forks, an' pleätes an' platters; An' waïters ran, an' beer did pass Vrom tap to jug, vrom jug to glass: An' when they took away the dishes, They drink'd good healths, an' wish'd good wishes, To all the girt vo'k o' the land, An' all good things vo'k took in hand; An' woone cried _hip, hip, hip!_ Zoo then, when _Water_ had a-meäde Zome money, _Äir_ begrudg'd his treäde, An' come by, unaweäres woone night, An' vound en at his own mill-head, An' cast upon en, iron-tight, An icy cwoat so stiff as lead.
    keywords: a'most; abrode; ageän; agoo; alwone; angel; answer; apple; ash; athirt; aunt; avore; aye; aïr; aïr'd; backs; bad; ball; bank; bark; bars; beams; bear; beauty; bed; beds; beds o; beech; beer; bells; bend; best; best o; better; bezide; beät; beäten; bide; big; bill; birds; bit o; bits; black; blackbird; blackmwore; blast; bleädes; bleäke o; blind; bloom; bloomèn; blooth; blossoms; blow; blowèn; blue; blushèn; bob; body; bore; bough'd; boughs; bow; break; breast; breath; breath o; bridge; bright; bright wi; brim; bring; brisk; broke; brook; brother; brown; buds; burnèn; busy; buy; bwoard; bwones; bwoth; bwoy; call'd; candle; car; cart; cast; catch; ceäre; chair; chaps; cheer; cheese; cheäks; childern; childhood; chile; chin; chris'mas; church; cider; clear; clim; clock; clote; cloudless; clouds; collins; come; comely; common; comèn; cool; copse; corn; coulden; cousin; cows; crack; crow; cry; culver; cup; cut; cwoat; d'ye; daily; dance; dark; darksome; dawn; day; day o; days; dead; dear; death; deep; dell; dew; dewy; deäisy; dick; didden; die; dim; do'set; dog; dogs; door; doust; dree; drink; drong; drop; drough; drow; drown'd; dry; e'thly; ears; easter; eclogue; ees; elem; ellen; em wi; ev'ry; evenèn; eyes; eärm; fall; fanny; farm; farmer; father; fear; feäce; feäce o; feäir; feäst; fine; fit; flat; fling; flow'rs; flower; food; free; free o; friend; fro; frocks; fun; gammony; gather'd; gaÿ; geese; geämes; geärden; geäte; gi'e; gifts; girt; glad; glee; gleäre; glitt'rèn; glossy; glow; god; gone; good; goolden; got; gothic; gramfer; grass; green; grenley; grey; greäce; grief; ground; grove; grow; growèn; guide; gwaïn; gwaïn o; half; hall; hand; hangèn; happiness; happy; hard; harm; harvest; haulèn o; hay; haÿ; head; head o; head wi; health; heart; heavy; hedge; height; help; het; het o; heärd; hide; high; higher; hill; ho'ses; hold; holy; hook; hope; hoss; hot; hour; house; house o; house wi; hung; hung wi; hwome; hwome wi; inside; ithin; ithout; ivy; jack; jaÿ; jaÿs; jenny; jessie; jeäne; jeäne o; jim; jimmy; jist; joe; john; john o; joke; june; keen; kick; kind; knap; knee; know; know'd; lags; land; lark; laugh; laughèn; lawn; leafy; leav'd; leaves; left; let; lew; lew o; lewth; leädy; leäp; leäve; lie; life; light; light o; lik; like; lim; limbs; linden; line; lips; little; litty; live; livèn; lofty; long; longer; look; look'd; lookèn; lost; lot; lot o; lov'd; love; luck; lwoad; lwonesome; lyèn; man; mark; married; maïd; maïd o; maïdens; maÿ; me'th; meal; meldonley; men; merry; meäd; meäde o; meäke; meäkèn; meäple; meäster; mid; milk; milkèn; mill; miller; mind; money; moon; moonlight; mornèn; mossy; mother; mow'd; music; mwore; mwost; naïghbours; near; neck; need; nest; new; newton; neäme; nigh; nights; nimble; noo; nook; noon; nose; nothèn; nwone; o leänèn; o'm; o'n; o't; oben; open; orcha'd; ouer; oves; parish; passèn; patch o; path; païl; païn; paÿ; peace; peals; peäir o; peäle; peärt; pick; pickèn o; pig; pitch; plaÿ; plaÿ'd; plaÿsome; pleasure; pleäce; plough; plow; poll; pool; poor; post; pretty; pride; primrwose; proud; pull; quick; quiv'rèn; racketèn; rank; raïn; reach; reachèn; red; rest; rick; rim; rise; risèn; river; road; roar; robert; rock; roll'd; rollèn; rooks; room; ruf; run; rung; runnèn; ruth; rwose; rwose o; sad; sam; screen; seat; seek; settle; sh'ill; shed; sheenèn; sheädes; sheädes o; sheädy; sheäke; shoes; short; show'd; shut; sich; simon; sister; skies; skin; sky; sky o; slantèn; sleep; slide; slowly; small; smile; smilèn; smoke; smooth; snow; soft; son; sorrow; souls; sound; sound o; sparklèn; spend; spread; spreadèn; spring; springèn; squier; stalks; stand; stannèn; star o; stars; staÿ; stem; steps; steätely; stick; stillness; stop; storm; stour; straïght; stream; streamèn; strong; stuff; stwone; stwonèn; sure; swaÿèn; sweet; swing; swingèn; talk; tall; taïl; tear; tell; teäles; thatch; thee; theäse; thik; things; thinkèn; thinkèn o; thomas; thorns; thought; thoughtvul; thunder; thy; tide; till; timber; time; times o; tiny; tis; tom; tongue; tongue o; took; tops; toss; tow'r; town; tread; tree; trod; true; try; tun; turn; turn o; tweil; twer; twilight; twold o; uncle; upright; us'd; vall; vallèn; vast; vaïce; veel; veet; vell; vew; vields; vier; view; vill; vill'd; vind; vinger; vire; vist; vive; vled; vlee; vloor; vo'k; voot; vor; vor woone; voun; vower; vrom; vrost; vu'st; vull; vull o; vur; waggon; walk; walk'd; walkèn; wall; warm; water; way; weak; wear; weather; wedded; weddèn; week; welcome; went; wer; west; western; wet; weäves; wheat; wheel'd; wheels; whip; whirlèn; white; wide; wife; wild; william; wind; window; windèn; wings; winter; wish; withy; woak; woaken; wold; wolder; women; wood; woodlands; woon't; woone; woone o; words; work; work'd; workèn; worold; worthy; wull; year; yield; yollow; yonder; young; youth; zaid; zay; zee; zeed; zell; zend; zent; zet; zettèn; zeèn o; zide; zide o; zight o; zing; zingèn; zit; zome; zome o; zome'hat; zong; zoo; zoo wi; zot; zummer; zun; zunday; zung; zunny; zunsheen; zweep; zwim
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 2888
      author: Moorman, F. W. (Frederic William)
       title: Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
        date: None
       words: 32711
      flesch: 89
     summary: He beals(25); tak t' barghams(26) off o' t' beams An' fetch some breckons(27) frae the clames.(28) Gamkeepers com wi' dogs an' guns, Thinkin' 't was some comical beast; An' they wad eyther kill him or catch him, Or drive him awa at least. Sea into Lady wood
    keywords: aar; aat; aat o; abel; aboot; agean; alle; almanacs; anonymous; anthology; author; awd; awlus; awn; aye; bairns; band; bed; bell; ben; best; better; bewitchin; big; bird; bit; bite; black; blakeborough; bob; bradford; brass; breet; bridal; brig; broad; browne; browt; bud; bun; burns; busy; butcher; bywater; can'lemas; care; catch; cattle; century; chap; character; christ; christmas; chuck; clear; clerk; cleveland; collection; com; coom; corn; country; cricket; crowtrees; customs; daan; dark; day; days; dean't; dear; death; deead; dialect; dialogue; dirge; don; doon; door; dream; dree; drew; e'en; early; east; edition; end; england; english; faane; face; fair; famous; far; farmer; fast; faster; father; fear; feet; fill; fine; finnd; fire; flee; folk; folklore; following; form; frae; frae t; friday; friends; frog; fun; gam; gam o; gang; gat; gav; george; ghost; gie; girt; git; god; good; great; green; hae; hand; happy; hartley; harvest; hat; hauf; heame; heart; hey; hills; history; hob; home; horse; humour; hunt; hurrah; interest; interesting; ivvery; jack; john; king; knaw; knee; known; laatle; lad; lads; lady; lang; lass; lasses; later; leeds; leet; left; leg; life; like; literature; little; local; long; lot; love; lucky; lunnon; lyke; mair; mak; maks; man; marsh; mean; men; merry; mich; milkin'-time; miller; mind; misen; monny; moor; mornin; mother; movement; moxy; mumming; mun; naa; nancy; ne'er; nea; nean; near; neet; neighbours; nelly; new; nighte; nineteenth; niver; nobbut; noo; north; notice; nowt; nut; oft; old; oot; original; owd; ower; ower t; owse; palm; parson; pass; past; pateley; pie; place; play; plenty; poems; poetry; poor; popular; pray; present; preston; pride; prose; raand; reader; ready; receive; red; reeth; reight; rhymes; richard; riding; roger; round; run; sae; sal; sally; saul; scythe; sea; second; sense; set; sheffield; shoo; sich; sike; sing; sir; snaith; snaw; society; song; south; sowl; speech; spring; standard; stick; stitchin; stop; story; sud; sunday; sure; sweet; tak; talk; tell'd; tha; tha'rt; thar; thee; things; thof; thomas; thoo; thoo'll; thou; thowt; thro; thy; thye; time; tip; title; tom; tommy; toon; traditional; true; turn; twea; tweddell; uns; use; varra; verse; version; volume; wad; wake; walter; want; wark; way; ways; wear; weel; welcome; wessel; west; wheer; whinny; white; wife; willy; wind; wish; wit; woman; words; work; world; yam; yan; yatton; ye've; year; yit; yon; yorkshire; yorkshire dialect; yorkshiremen; young
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 38565
      author: Moore, Bernard
       title: Cornish Catches, and Other Verses
        date: None
       words: 9590
      flesch: 88
     summary: Then you grows a bit, and you finds a mort o' pleasure In the rush o' the waves an' the roarin' wind in the sky; An' you plays your games at Pirates seekin' treasure, Or Penny-come-quick when the Breton Boys go by. An' you don't much trouble at difrent kinds o' weather, If 'tis sunny 'tis sunny, but rain won't make you miss The chance to trample away thro' the moorland heather; Well!
    keywords: 'nuff; allays; away; awnly; baint; bay; beauty; best; big; bit; blue; boys; cap'n; city; come; cornish; cottage; courage; day; deear; dicky; didn; door; dreams; end; eyes; fair; far; feet; feyther; fish; fisherman; garden; god; gold; golden; gone; good; grey; hand; happy; harbour; haul; he've; heart; hill; hold; home; iss; jenny; jest; john; kay; kittereen; knaws; knees; lad; lady; lanes; light; like; lil; little; london; long; looe; looks; love; maid; man; mazed; men; mevagissey; mind; mortal; music; net; old; peace; pentreath; pilchers; port; praying; rest; roses; sail; sea; sez; shadows; shore; sky; song; sorrow; star; sun; sunday; sure; sweet; they'm; things; tide; time; tis; twas; use; wasn; watch; wind; world; year; you'm; youm
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