A dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the Island; with illustrative anecdotes and tales; to which is appended the Christmas Boy's play, an Isle of Wight "Hooam Harvest", and songs sung by the peasantry; forming a treasury of insular manners and customs of fifty years ago (1886) You can download this in pdf format and others (NOT WORD) or read the book online by clicking on the pages to turn them http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook/flippy.php?id=dictionaryofisle00longrich example of the dialect Milt {A.S. milt). The spleen of a slaughtered animal. Min. Men. Mind. To remember. Mints. Mites, small insects in cheese. Minty cheese. Cheese full of mites. "They bosses yet a miserable lot o' corn last winter." - Those horses ate a great deal of corn last winter. "Dost thee know Will Baker, you? he's a miserable gurt feller." "Fine mornen, you, edden't it?" " Oi, you, but 'twas a miserable rough night; dedn't the wind blow ! I thought my chimley was comen down, " Sometimes feelingly pronounced - ' * miserabble." "Hollo, you, how dost seem to beat up? I han't zid ye vor ever zo long," " Oh, I beant much on't; my faace ben terbul bad layetly; my teeth paains me zoo," "Ah, the toothache eB miserabble bad, I knows that," " Oi, you, 'tes wuss than anything, I bleeve; and every now'n ten the wold stumps 'ill gee sich a jump, and prid near jump out o' me head. " Chris History of the villages of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight http://southernlife.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~