312 PROVINCIALISMS. 



The ou changes almofl invariably into 00; 

 as, flour, floor ; pur, oor\ houfe, boofe; moufe, 

 mcofe. 



The ow is fubjedl to a fimilar deviation ; 

 as, bowls, book; power, poor; flower, floor ; 

 bow, boo ; cow, coo. 



Thefe are the principal part of the more 

 REGULAR DEVIATIONS in the pronunciation 

 of the Eaft-Yorklhire dialed. To go thro* 

 its ANOMALIES would be an endlefs talk : 

 fome of them will appear in the following 

 GLOSSARY; in the forming of which I have 

 been induced to break through my original 

 plan with refpeft to PROVINCIALISMS ; which 

 was, and indeed flill is, to confine myfelf 

 merely to fuch words as relate more efpeci- 

 ally to RURAL AFFAIRS. But finding, in this 

 particular inftance y a DECLINING LANGUAGE, 



which 



tnzut ; in the middle dialect, molt : Malton, in like man- 

 ner, becomes Mauion and Molton. All fyllables formed 

 with o long have three diftincl: pronunciations : thus 

 Icoal in the vulgar tongue, ball in the middle dialect, 

 and. bole in the Englifli language, convey the fame 

 idea. Creeac, crake, crow ; father (the a Jbort}^ faither^ 

 father, are other inftances. In a few generations, it is 

 probable, the prefent vulgar tongue will be loft, and 

 the prefent middle dialed will then of courfe become 

 the vulgar tongue. 



