Questions about Dialect Words and Pronunciation

Reference code: FOL.QUES/20
Level of description: Series
Title: Questions about Dialect Words and Pronunciation
Scope and content: Before continuing our dialect word-list, we would like some information about the sound of the vowel e in the words bet and bed.
1. When you say bet and be do you feel that these words have exactly the same vowel sound? (Please answer Yes or No)
2. If your answer to question 1 is ‘No’, do you feel that the sound in bet is
(a) Like bed but shorter?
(b) Quite different from bed?
(tick whichever is appropriate)
3) If your answer to question 1 is ‘No’, please indicate whether the following words agree with BET or with BED in your pronunciation by placing an X in the appropriate space: ten, tend, tent, tense, lense, less, left
Please put an X in the appropriate column to indicate whether each word is commonly used, or known to you but not used now, or unknown to you. If you know the word in a sense or form other than that given, please give your own meaning or spelling as well.
FACK: a pointer used to direct the eye of the child when at lessons
FANKLE: to entangle with a noose
FENDY: clever at providing
FLEECH: to flatter, wheedle, fawn
FLERD: a giddy, thoughtless girl
FOZEY: light, spongy, elastic
FREET: superstitious observance
FRUSH: brittle
GALAGERS: legs, prongs, nails or spikes when longer than usual
GATION: person emaciated by famine or disease
GAZEN: shrunken woodwork leaving joints open
GIBB: hook; curved head of a walking stick
GLABBER: inarticulate walk