'ee
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ee"
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'ee
- (Cornwall, archaic, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of ye (second person pronoun). used like an enclitic, after a consonant
- 1789, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, or, The Scheming Lieutenant, act 1, scene 1:
- Oh, all that's fair; but hark'ee, lads, I must have no grumbling on St. Patrick's Day; so here, take this, and divide it amongst you.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, chapter 40, in Great Expectations:
- "Look'ee here, Pip," said he, laying his hand on my arm in a suddenly altered and subdued manner; "first of all, look'ee here. I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's what it was; low. […]
- 1905, Mark Guy Pearse, “Terrible Expensive”, in The Quiver, page 1068:
- "Will 'ee have some?" said Martha Ann presently, holding out her apron filled with rosy quarrendens.
- 1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 361:
- If a sun-bonneted market woman got in with us, mother could never resist talking to her, and answering the invariable Cornish question: "Wheer be 'ee goin'?" Then would follow the astonished "From Lunnon are 'ee? Aw, my deer!"
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References edit
- Hans Lindquist, Christian Mair (eds.), Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English.