w'speen
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction
[edit]w'speen
- we spend
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
- Th' valler w'speen here, th' lass ee chourch-hey.
- The more we spend here, the less in the churchyard.
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 84