j-4 PROVINCIALISMS. 



which lies immediately between the Vale 

 and Scotland, has little or no affinity to the 

 Scotch pronunciation. 



About Leeds, the language flill varies : jt 

 is there ftrongly marked by a twang in the 

 pronunciation. In the Vale of Pickering the 

 word cow, for inftance, takes the clcfe found 

 " ceo ;" about Leeds it becomes " caw :" 

 the afaort) as in can ; the w being articulated 

 as in the eftablifhed pronunciation of the 



In the more extreme parts of Weft Tork- 

 fbire the dialed is characterized by an open- 

 ncfs or trtodrtffs of pronunciation, very dif- 

 ferent from the reft of the county. The 

 language even of Waktfidd and that of 

 J,,eeds, though thefe two places are fituated 

 y/iihin twenty miles of each other, are in 

 many particulars lefs analogous than thofe of 

 Scotland and the Vale of Pickering. 



The dilTimiJltudes here mentioneed, how, 

 ever, relare more to pRosuN r ciATiON,or what 

 is lets properly termed vcrent^ than to WORDS. 

 rbrltfs, in woi'ds^the different Di(tric~ts 

 this extenfive province vary confiderably 

 in identify and 



