w'ad
See also: wad
Yola
[edit]Contraction
[edit]w'ad
- Alternative form of waad
- 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:
- Fad didn't thou cum t' ouz phen w'ad zumthin to yive?
- [Why didn't you come to us when we had something to give?]
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 131