d neglact.

Double _e_ is pronounced as _i_ in such words as sheep, week, called
ship and wick; and the sound of double _e_ follows the same rule in fild
for field.

Having pronounced _ee_ as _i_, the Sussex people in the most impartial
manner pronounce _i_ as _ee_; and thus mice, hive, dive, become meece,
heeve, and deeve.

_i_ becomes _e_ in pet for pit, spet for spit, and similar words.

_io_ and _oi_ change places respectively; and violet and violent become
voilet and voilent, while boiled and spoiled are bioled and spioled.

_o_ before _n_ is expanded into _oa_ in such words as pony, dont, bone;
which are pronounced p[dot above o][dot above a]ny,
d[dot above o][dot above a]nt, b[dot above o][dot above a]n.

_o_ before _r_ is pronounced as _a_; as carn and marning, for corn and
morning.

_o_ also becomes _a_ in such words as rad, crass, and crap, for rod,
cross, and crop.

_ou_ is elongated into _aou_ in words like hound, pound, and mound;
pronounced haound, paound, and maound.

The final _ow_, as in many other counties, is pronounced er, as foller
for fallow.

The peculiarities with regard to the pronunciation of consonants are not
so numerous as those of the vowels, but they are very decided, and seem
to admit of less variation.

Double _t_ is always pronounced as _d_; as liddle for little, &c., and
the _th_ is invariably _d_; thus the becomes _de_; and these, them,
theirs--dese, dem, deres.

_d_ in its turn is occasionally changed into _th_; as in fother for
fodder.

The final _sp_ in such words as wasp, clasp, and hasp are reversed to
wapse, clapse and hapse.

Words ending in _st_ have the addition of a syllable in the possessive
case and the plural, and instead of saying that "some little birds had
built their nests near the posts of Mr. West's gate," a Sussex boy would
say, "the birds had built their nestes near the postes of Mr. Westes'
gate."

[Sidenote: EAST AND WEST]

Roughly speaking, Sussex has little or no dialect absolutely its own;
for the country speech of the west is practically that also of
Hampshire, and of the east, that of Kent. The dividing line between east
and west, Mr. Cripps of Steyning tells me, is the Adur, once an estuary
of the sea rather than the stream it now is, running far inland and
separating the two Sussexes with its estranging wave.

Mr. Parish's pages supply the following words and examples of their use,
chosen almost at random:--

Adone (Have done, Le