Monday, April 08, 2013
Ursprache
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, chapter II:
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The dialect was on her tongue to some extent, despite the village school: the characteristic intonation of that dialect for this district being the voicing approximately rendered by the syllable UR, probably as rich an utterance as any to be found in human speech.Id., chapter III:
Mrs Durbeyfield habitually spoke the dialect; her daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London-trained mistress, spoke two languages: the dialect at home, more or less; ordinary English abroad and to persons of quality.
