ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 69 (6) More Btrangely, for words in on ; acron (acorn), mtitton^ NeUon, rihbcnj &q,, are acfceriny muUirif Nelsin, rt&mn, &c. : all which I myself have heard. (c) In such words as ChristnuUf Michadmcu, &o., which are Kersmis, MicJiaelmis, &c., and Australia^ Au9trilia. (d) And in some words ending in h; thus, hcUley bundle, crozad% &c,, are hoUilf bundily croxzil, &o, 4. In cotuin the i is distinctly heard. The following is an illustration of the sound of pronoun /. A tenant of the Grammar School once on our rent day told a long story of his searching for his father, who had been, as it is called, * out on the spree.' On the son*8 return home, sick and weary, after a boot- less errand, as he was toiling up Almondbury Bank he fancied he heard his father calling for help. He immediately posted off for Dalton, and found his father in the dyke, about one and a half miles from the town end. One of the audience said, ' Wam't it queer, Jooa, tha' yeerd thi fathther sooa farP' To whom he replied, ^Au deedn't say Au yeerd him, Au said Au thowt Au yeerd him.' F (pronounced ee), used for in, * Theer isn't a better haas i' th' taan.' Ickle, for icicle. [A.S. gicdf a little jag. The Anglo-Saxon for icicle is ia-gicel.—'W. W. a] If is sometimes pronounced ef. Three men stood by the wayside chatting over matters, and one was heard to say, ' Au'll tell thee Vat ; ef a man does wran^, yo'll yeer on it all ower f country ; but ef a man does reight, nobody ses nowt.' [Icel. e/, if. — W. W. S.] Imp, sh. always used in a bad sense. In. See I'. In, used as a yerb, as, ' The clock ins,* L e. gains. See Hoccleve's Poem and Roundel (a.d. 1408), ver. 29 : ' Were our seed inned then we mighten play,' where inned means gathered in. Ing, eh. a field, or meadow. Halliwell says, * generally one lying low near a river,' but it hardly seems so here ; in fact the word is very common in this hilly district. Inknm jinkum, the name of a ' nominy ' (which see) used at Lepton, and formerly at Almondbury, in the game of ' Buck, Buck,' which is thus played. A boy jimips up on another's back, and holding up some nngers, says,
- Inkum jinkum, Jeremy buck,
Yamdy horns do Au cock up P ' If he guesses wrong— say two for three — ^the first proceeds : ' Tw6 tha' s^ and thrde there is ; Aull le4n thee to lidce at tnkvm jinkum,^ ftc.
