ALMONDBUHY AND HUODERSFIELD. 3 Ainu, the pronunciation of arm. * To mak' a long airm * = to reach. In Nashe^s Lenten Stuffe^ published in 1699, occurs this sentence : ' It divided them, and it divided them not ; for oyer tiiat arm of the sea could be made a long arm.* Ainu i* aimi, i,e, arm in arm. Some will say 'hand i' airm/ speaking of the woman. Aise (pronounced aJi-ice, or ah-eece), an axe. The* x is constantly pronounced thus in old Almondbury diction. See Letter Z. This form, however, though still to be heard, is fast ceasing. HaUiwell says the word aise is found in Skinner for axweed, Oaeinga, the name of a field, is no doubt oxings. Alegar (pronounced allicher^ or ellic'ker), a word sometimes used for vinegar, though not exactly the same. It is said to be really aZe, or beer, allowed to acidify ; and the word itself is formed £r(^m cUe and aigrey precisely as the word vinegar from the French — vtn, wine, and aigre. All afloits, t. e, all afloat ; all in disorder : as of a house on a wash- ing day ; said also of books, clothes, dress, &c. All maks, i, e, all makes, or all sorts. Very common. All natioiu, used instead of the word enoitgh. If one had been at a party, he would describe the abundance of eatables, &c., by saying there were all nattons of thinss. The expression, however, seems stronger than the simple word enough, ^oth forms are sometimes used together ; thus, * all ncUiona enough ' may be heard to express a superabundance. All out, t. e. entirely. ' It is almost, if not all outj as bad as thieving.* It occurs VDTrxstram Shandy. Allyt, always : pronounced by some as written, and by others olya^ which is the true dialect pronunciation. See A (5). A young woman forming one of a wedding'part3r, at the beginning of this century, was gomff down Fenay Lane with her companions, when they met a man, wno said, * £h ! what bonnie lasses ! Au wonder wheer all f faal wives come thro'.' She answered, * Maister, didst ta' iwer see a grey mare foiled P They oly$ grow sooa.* Almondbury, called by the polite Aimhury ; by the genuine York- shireman, Aumhuryt or, better stiU, OSmbury, See A. The .well- known beggar, Joseph o' Nuppits (of whom more anon), when he was asked for what the different villages which he was accustomed to honour with his visits were specially noted, used to reply, |Honley for brass, Faimley for mail (meal), Oambury for nout.* in iustice to Almondbury, it should be said he lived here in the work- house, and our townsmen no doubt had (juite enough of him, and could not aflbrd to be generous as well as just. Alto, adv. altogether ; entirely ; wholly : a word not found now in the dialect, but inserted here as beins in an inscription on a fillet round the nave in Almondbunr church, where it is spelt as two words — all to. See Preface, * Inscription in Almondbury Church.' It occurs also in Judges ix. 53 — 'And a certain woman cast a B 2
