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Is gooid for nowt.* Vower, u e. nowhere. Vuoket, sh, a little nook, or comer. Vnmbling, adj. unhandy ; same as fumbling. Vunole, sb. unde. ' My nunde Joe,' &c. King LeaVy passim. An old gentleman, oominff from the Cock at Famley (1858) late at night, and going towards AJmondbiiiT Common, the night being dark, lost his way, and fell into a small dyke near Newcastle Park. He could not get out, baying a weakness in his back, and being, moreover, an old man, so he sat on the brink to reason. ' Au say, Joe, tha' b hn<l many ups and daans i' this world, but this is lawk to be a finisher.' He then called out lustily, * Is there nobody to save me in a Christian land like this P ' At last, howeyer, his own niece found him, and on recognizing his yoice exclaimed, ' Good gracious — ^my nunde ! * Vuppit, ab, simpleton : still used. Halliwell says nup is a fool. See Preface— Joseph o' Nuppits. The long o has chiefly two forms. (1) In some words it takes the sound of aw (which also represents I), as no, Josephf Moses, slow. (2) In other yrords it is lengthened into two or three yowels, dim ; as go, nOy so, which are gooa, tiooa, sooa, (3) In some words it has the usual pronunciation. (4) And in many the long o becomes d, as over^ otwer ; opm^ oppen, Oa (1) forms two syllables ; thus, broodd, loodd, roodd. (2) Sometimes, when sounded as o, it becomes ot, diphthong ; thus, cocU, coat, foal are coil, coit, foil. See Letter I (1). (3) And when o is followed by a consonant and final e the same change takes place ; thus, cote, hole, pose, pote, thole, &o., become coit, hoil, poise, poit, thoil, &o. Oo. This form has two sounds. (1) As in book, cook, crook, hook, which take the southern sound of 00 in moon, soon, &o., except the words good and /oot, which fall under the next rule. (2) In such words which in the south haye oo pronounced fall, as in moon, cool, spoon, noon, school, soon^fool, goose, &c., the pronimciation here is yery smgular, — mooin, cooil, spooin, nooin^ schooil, sooin, fooil,
