-
Annie tells about, An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you Ef you Don't
Watch Out!
Wunst they wuz a
little boy wouldn't say his prayers,-- An' when he went to bed...
- was
constantly suffering from "the
windy spavin;"
taters for potatoes;
wunst for once; wuts for oats, etc., etc."
Syntax of the
Surrey dialect included:...
- (können), not from 'will' (wollen), or we'd
better call it wirt (Wulst or
Wunst,
fantasy word). Conservation: The
meaning is similar, with and
without the...
-
record of the dialect. A few
examples (mainly phonetic) are
noted below:
Wunst every blue moon –
rarely occurring Thou
fries me to
death – the
limit of...
- 1911)
White Fibb (Sunday strip, 1911)
Willie Fibb (Sunday strip, 1911)
Wunst Upon a Time (Sunday, 1911) Makin'
Believe (Sunday
strip for the New York...
