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Northumbria, uncountable

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“[19th c.] 1993, Ned Corvan, “Yer Gannin to be a Keelman,” in Visions of the People, Patrick Joyce http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=z_nMtyp7XCEC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&sig=SHwbkD-bXZaWxJharfiXxajyEGU Ye’ll be comin’ hyem at neets, with yor fyece all ower black, And ye’ll lie an snore aside the fire, and never gis yor crack, …”

““He had just come in,” he said, “to see if his mate was come hyem yet; but as he had not, he thought he could guess right weel where he wad be, and wad just step o’er to Brown’s (the gin-shop) and see.””

“1985, David Wright tr. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=hXCi_DViuqwC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&sig=3KRd23dvj1DbGak23VXz2q-VDDc And so Aah’s cum, and also brought Alan, To grind wor corn, and bring it hyem again; Aah begs ye de the job fast as ye can.”

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