spakin

About this time twelve months -- no, faix, I'm wrong, it was afore Dan's marriage -- I had thoughts o 'spakin' ta you about it, but somehow it left my head.

Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

‘Well, when my father seen spakin’ was no use, he went on with his story.

The Purcell Papers 2003

"It's a foine cheek ye have to be spakin 'to a gentleman's daughter, an' you not a man uv yer wurrd."

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

"May I ask you not to be spakin '?" she said politely to the two.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

"I'm spakin '!" replied Myles, in a consequential manner.

A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

"God save you kindly," says the Waiver, purtendin 'he was quite unknowst who he was spakin to.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

And spakin 'of luck, it's lucky you are I caught you at it the first toime you done 'em bad, for, do you see, I'll be lookin' out for you now for a good bit jist to be seein 'that you're a b'y that can be trusted.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

"There's toimes to be spakin ', and toimes to be kapin' still," she said.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

"How is dacent people, who lived here all their lives, to know who them invaders is that comes in on people with their quare notions and ways, never showing the daylight to the child God gave 'em till she's a fine young woman on their hands, and never spakin 'a word to other folk, as if honest men wasn't their betters any day."

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

I wouldn't demane mesilf by spakin 'to the loikes ov

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene