3 do not go by our spelling
_ea_ for both, but have come from earlier forms of the words.

After a roof letter it may stay as it is, a roof letter, as madden,
madd'n; rotten, rott'n. So with _en_ for him, tell en, tell'n.

The _en_ sometimes at the end of words means not, as bisse'n, bist not;
coust'en, cous'n, could'st not; I didd'n, I did not; diss'n, didst not;
hadd'n, had not; muss'n, must not; midd'n, mid not;
should'n, should not; 'tis'n, 'tis not; would'n, would not.

_en_--not _en_--in Dorset, as well as in book English, as an ending of
some kinds of words often, in running talk, loses the _e_, and in
some cases shifts into a sound of the kind of the one close before it.
After a lip-letter it becomes a lip-letter _m_, as Rub en, Rub-him;
rub'n, rub'm; oven, ov'm; open, op'n op'm, in Dorset mostly oben,
ob'n, ob'm. So after _f'_, deafen, deaf'n, deaf m, heaven, heav'n,
heav'm, in Dorset sometimes heab'm. zeven, zeb'n, zeb'm.
After a throat-letter it becomes a throat one, _ng_, as token,
tok'n, tok'ng.

_[=e]_ (2).

_Eegrass_, aftermath.

_Eltrot_, Eltroot, cowparsley (_Myrrhis_). [Elt is Freisic, robustus,
vegetus, as cowparsley is among other kinds.] _See_ Bibber.

_Emmet_, an ant.

_Emmetbut_, an anthill.

_En_, him; A.-Saxon, _hine_.

_En_, for ing, zingen, singing.

_Eve_, to become wet as a cold stone floor from thickened steam in
some weather.

_Evet_, eft, newt.

_Exe_, an axle.

F.

_Fakket_, a faggot.

_Fall_, autumn; to fall down is _vall_.

_Fay_ (5, 1) to speed, succeed.

_Feaest_ (1, 4), a village wake or festival; _festa_.

_Flag_, a water plant.

_Flinders_, flying pieces of a body smashed; "Hit it all to flinders."

_Flounce_, a flying fall as into water.

_Flout_, a flinging, or blow of one.

_Flush_, fledged.

_Footy_, unhandily little.

G.

_Gally_, to frighten, fray.

_Gee_, _jee_, to go, fit, speed.

_Giddygander_, the meadow orchis.

_Gil'cup_, gilt cup, the buttercup.

_Girt_, great.

_Gl[=e]ne_ (2), to smile sneeringly.

_Glutch_, to swallow.

_Gnang_, to mock one with jaw waggings, and noisy sounds.

_Gnot_, a gnat.

_Goo_, go.

_Goocoo flower_, _Cardamine pratensis_.

_Goodnow_, goodn'er, good neighbour; my good friend; "No, no; not I,
goodnow;" "No, no; not I, my good friend."

_Goolden chain_, the laburnum.

_Gout_, an underground gutter.

_Graegl