nevvy for nephew; non-plush'd for non-plussed; refuge for refuse; quid for cud, " chewing the quid; "sarment for sermon; varmint for vermin; sloop for slope; spartacles for spectacles; spavin for spasms. I knew an old woman who was constantly suffering from "the windy spavin;" taters for potatoes; wunstfor once; wuts for oats, etc., etc." Syntax of the Surrey dialect included: The Old and Middle English prefix of "a-" is used generally before substantives, before participles and with adjectives placed after nouns, e.g., a-coming, a-going, a-plenty, a-many. Double negatives in a sentence are common, "You don't know nothing", "The gent ain't going to give us nothing" "be" is common for "are", e.g., "How be you?" is noted, to which "I be pretty middlin', thank ye" was the usual answer. Superlatives (+est) were used in place of the word "most", e.g., "the impudentest man I ever see" "You've no ought" was the equivalent of "you should not" "See" was used for saw (the preterite usually past simple) of see "Grow'd," "know'd," "see'd," "throw'd," and similar were however also used both for the perfect and participle passive of the verbs, e.g., "I've know'd a litter of seven whelps reared in that hole" Past participle takes more complex forms after common consonants "-ded," "-ted," e.g., attackted, drownded, "Such a country as this, where everything is either scorched up with the sun or drownded with the rain." The pleonastic use of "-like" denoting "vaguely", e.g. comfortable-like, timid-like, dazed-like, "I have felt lonesome-like ever since." "all along of" meaning "because of" Phonological features included long-standing yod-coalescence, now typical of dialects throughout England, as well as the increasingly disappearing feature of rhoticity. bait – an afternoon meal about 4 pm bannick – a verb meaning to beat or thrash baulky – is said of a person who tries to avoid you beazled – tired beatle – a mallet befront – in front of beleft – the participle of "believe" bettermost – upper-class people bly – a likeness, "he has a bly of his father" burden – a quantity comb – the moss that grows on church bells clung – moist or damp grass dryth – drought fail – a verb meaning to fall ill fly-golding – a ladybird foundrous – boggy or marshy gratten – stubble left in a field after harvest hem – a lot or much hot – a verb meaning to heat something up,