MD.  VA.  KY.  MISS. &c.

2                   1
THar                THare
2                   1
whar                hware
2                   1
bar [bear]          bare
2                   4
war                 wer
37                  1
mout                mite [might]
1                  1 4
gwine               go’ing
4       4          4
shet or shut        rid
1       5           1   1   4          4
tote or fotch       kar’re, fetsh, or bring
1                   4
hop’d               helpt
4  66               2    4    4
ca-hoot’            part’nur-ship
3                   66  5
mar’bl              moov off

NOTE, Clever, pretty, ugly, curious, expect, guess, and reckon, though correct English words, have, among the common people of New England and New York, a provincial application and meaning.  With them, a clever man, is one of a gentle and obliging disposition; instead of, a man of distinguished talents and profound acquirements. Pretty and ugly, they apply to the disposition of a person, instead of, to his external appearance.  In these states, one will often hear, “I guess it rains,” when the speaker knows this to be a fact, and, therefore, guessing is uncalled for.  “I expect I can go;” or, “I reckon I can;” instead of, “I suppose or presume.”  In New England, a clergyman is often called a minister, in New York, a priest, and south of N.Y. a parson.  The last is preferable.

NEW ENGLAND OR NEW YORK.  CORRECTED.
I be goin.  He lives to hum.  I am going.  He lives at home.

Hese ben to hum this two weeks. He has been at home these
                                        2 weeks.

You haddent ought to do it.  Yes         You ought not to do it.
had ought.                              Certainly I ought.

Taint no better than hizzen. ’Tis no better than his.

Izzent that are line writ well? Is not that line well written?

Tizzent no better than this ere. It is no better, or it is
                                        not any better than his.

The keows be gone to hum, neow,         The cows are gone home, and
and I’mer goin arter um.                I am going after them.

He’ll be here, derights, and, bring     He will here, directly, and bring
yourn and thairn.                       yours and theirs.

He touched the stun which I shew        He touched the stone which I
him, an di guess it made him sithe,     showed him and it made him
for twas cissing hot.                   sigh, for it was hissing hot.

Run, Thanel, and cut a staddle, for Go, Nathaniel, and cut a sapling, to make a lever on.  Ize jest agoneter to make a lever of.  I was about go, daddy. to go, or intending to go
                                        immediately, father.