Lancashire Dialect Glossary I
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I’ – in ‘I’danger’ ‘Aw thowt no harm i’ speykin’
Iccles or Eccles – icicle (SB)
I’d – I had, I would
Id – it
Id, it – its ‘Theau’ll find eawr kettle’s lost it lid,
An’ taypot’s broke it nose’
Id’s – it is ‘Hoo’d just time, as id wor, to lock th’ heawse up’
Idd'n – you had: also, you would (SB)
Idelty – idleness
I'Goddil – if God will (SB)
I'Godlin, or I'Gadlin – an interjection (SB)
I'Godsnum – in God's nIll – to cover ‘Ill me up’ [see ‘Hill’] (SB)
Ill-favurt – ill-favoured, ugly (SB)
I’mi – in me, pron. ‘immi’
Imp – to deprive of (SB)
Imp-in – to inch in, to go beyond, or short of the proper mark (SB)
In – if; In id had, if I had had (SB)
In neaw – soon ‘In neaw, Dame Bowden showed hersel’
Inglun – England (SB)
Inglun-shoyer – all England (SB)
Inklin – a hint; also a liking for a person or thing (SB)
Inneaw – een now, directly (SB)
Inneh – if I: also if you (SB)
Innin – if you will (SB)
Insense – to make understand
I’r – I was ‘Eh truth, Meary, I’r os gawmless os a goose’
I're – I were, or was (SB)
Irnin – the making of cheese: the smoothing of linen (SB)
I’st – I shall ‘I’st blubber an’ stut when I meet him’
I'st – I shall: rm. Moist (SB)
Ist – is it? rm. fist, wist (SB)
Istid – instead
Iteaw – in two, broken (SB)
I’th’ – in the ‘I’th’ keythur’
Ithert – dirty ‘An ithert neck’
I’this – in this
It’l, ittle – it will ‘Ne, ne; ittle naw doo’
Ither – in their: rm. with wither (SB)
Ittered – thick ‘Hoo’s so ittert’t wi’ dirt that yo met set potitos in her neckhole!’
Iv – if ‘Iv tha’ll feel I my pocket tha’ll see’
Ivtle – if thou wilt (SB)
Ivin – ivy (SB)
Iz – is (SB)
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