cornd

If ever yo 'marry and hev childer, teach 'em music -- a chap as con play con feight th' devil so much better nor him as cornd. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Yo 'cornd bridle women folks, and it's happen as weel yo' cornd; for if they mutn't talk they'd scrat, and that 'ud be a deal wur.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Happen thaa cornd for shame, Miriam,' stammered Matt.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

There's an owd sayin 'i' these parts that yo 'cornd go into th' mill baat gettin 'dusted.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

That means in yur talk that yo 'cornd touch pitch baat gettin' blacked.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Hoo sez hoo noan cares for heaven if hoo cornd play on th' moors, and yer th 'wind, and poo yethbobs when hoo gets there.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

But thaa cornd mend it wi 'swearin' -- thaa nobbud makes bad worse by adding thy oaths to his roguery. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'We cornd get at _him_,' they used to say, 'but we con get at his dog, and mak' him smart i 'that road.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'' Manda, 'cried the mother, defiantly and grandly, all the passion of maternity rising in her heart,' 'Manda, thaa cornd unmother me.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Th 'Etheop cornd change his skin, nor th' leopard his spots. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather