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The author, Jems Mab, says \u2018Ich be me own measter an that all o ee da now<\/em>\u2019 and that \u2018Ich wos lected a vew yrs agoo an dun me duti\u2019<\/em> which in modern English is \u2018I be my own master as all of you know\u2019 and \u2018I was elected a few years ago and did my duty\u2019. Jems Mab is James Mabb a \u2018hemp hackler\u2019 from Barrack Street [a hemp hackler was someone who combs out raw hemp into longer strands as part of the flax trade].<\/p>\n Mabb states he is no \u2018sarvint\u2019, unlike Harri Zaddle, who he describes as his \u2018bigest emny\u2019 and that he \u2018wol be Mayr\u2019 [will be Mayor]. He goes on to promise:<\/p>\n \u2018Now min genelman wen tha vust o November do cum agin, Ich wil get in iff da cost I zixty or zeventy pouns, an my fren Varmer Cooms wol git in too if he\u2019ll take fren Thom\u2019s advise, an so a wod thes year tadn ben for Harry Zaddle\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In modern English:<\/p>\n \u2018Now mind gentlemen that when the first of November comes again, I will get in, if it costs me sixty or seventy pounds, and my friend Farmer Coombs [John Coombs, farmer, Harbour Road] will get in too if he\u2019ll take the advice of friend Thomas, and so I would have this year if it hadn\u2019t been for Harry Zaddle\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unfortunately for Mabb he did not become Mayor in 1857, but whether it cost him zixty or zeventy pouns we shall never know!<\/p>\n Other records of Dorset dialect in the collections include dialect poems, like those of William Barnes. You can hear Henrietta Taylor of Loders reading Hay-Meaken and Zummer Even\u00e8n Dance by William Barnes via soundcloud<\/a>, reference DSA\/188\/1\/6.<\/p>\n We wonder what people in a hundred years\u2019 time will think of the language we use today?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Language changes over time. As new words come and go and regional dialects fade from memory, the English we speak today is very different from that spoken 200 years ago. Dorset History Centre holds an 1856 election poster from Bridport written, for political effect, in the Dorset Dialect: The author, Jems Mab, says \u2018Ich be… Read more Dabbling in Dorset Dialect<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[82,457,184,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}