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as to clothes, a flower and a butterfly are finer than anybody in the land.‖ (p.
6)
7. Other points of interest
In-text glossing, not just of dialect vocabulary, but also of respellings. For instance:
―…the forks are nobert spewns we nicks in, yo may manage wi a fork if yo shuv
the stuff on forst (first) wi (with) your fingers.‖ (p. 31)
Bullough Collection No. 373 Christie Johnstone: a novel by Charles Reade
1. Publication details
Author: Reade. Charles
Author dates: 1814-1884
Title: Christie Johnstone: a novel
Publication: London: Chatto & Windus, 1905
First published: 1853
Library reference: 200351001
2. Genre / subgenre
Literary fiction
3. Brief synopsis
Satirical novel which recounts the life, loves, misfortunes, and times of Viscount
Ipsden, an indolent aristocrat.
4. Overview of varieties / dialects
Much of the novel is set in a cluster of villages in Scotland. While the main characters
(including Ipsden‘s manservant, Saunders), are accorded stE dialogue, the speech of
the Scottish characters is consistently rendered in heavily-marked dialect.
5. Variety # 1: Ipsden‘s first meeting with Scots Jean Carnie and Christie Johnstone
5a. Sample of dialect
Lord Ipsden, rising gently from his seat, with the same quiet politeness with which he
would have received two princes of the blood, said, "How do you do?" and smiled a
welcome.
"Fine! hoow's yoursel?" answered the dark lass, whose name was Jean Carnie, and
whose voice was not so sweet as her face.
"What'n lord are ye?" continued she; "are you a juke? I wad like fine to hae a crack wi'
a juke."
Saunders, who knew himself the cause of this question, replied, _sotto voce,_ "His
lordship is a viscount."
"I didna ken't," was Jean's remark. "But it has a bonny soond."
"What mair would ye hae?" said the fair beauty, whose name was Christie Johnstone.
Then, appealing to his lordship as the likeliest to know, she added, "Nobeelity is jist a
soond itsel, I'm tauld."
The viscount, finding himself expected to say something on a topic he had not
attended much to, answered dryly:
"We must ask the republicans, they are the people that give their minds to such
subjects."
"And yon man," asked Jean Carnie, "is he a lord, too?"
"I am his lordship's servant," replied Saunders, gravely, not without a secret misgiving
whether fate had been just.
"Na!" replied she, not to be imposed upon, "ye are statelier and prooder than this
ane."
5b.1 Orthography
Elision yoursel‟; what‟n; wi‟ [note apostrophe]
Eye dialect juke
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