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What makes all they “hills look so well?

Where “Jim was sent to, they two “met.

“They won’t have all they sort of people up there.

Tell “Cooper to “shift “they “stones “there.

We may now turn to the functions of those forms whose uses are identifiably different from those of Standard English.

The most striking feature of the demonstrative system is that, in the singular adjective system at least, there is apparently a three-term opposition /рi:z : рat : рi-ki:/, in contrast with the two-term system of
Standard English. It seems fair to say that the role of /рi:z/ is similar to that of 'this' in Standard English (but see note on /рi:z ji:r/ below), but any attempt to differentiate /рat/ and /рi-ki:/ proves extremely difficult. There are a number of sentences of the type:

If you was to put “that stick in across “thicky pony . . . where the two forms seem to fill the same function. The virtual absence of
/рi-ki:/ from the pronoun system, together with the fact that /рi-ki:/ is three times as frequent as /рat/ as an adjective, would suggest that /рi- ki:/ is the normal adjectival form in the dialect, and that /рat/ has a greater range, having a function which is basically pronominal but in addition adjectival at times. This is further supported by the fact that when presented with sentences of the type:

He turned that “hare “three “times and “he caught it. the informant claimed that /рi-ki:/ would be equally acceptable and could indicate no distinction. Thus there are pairs of sentences such as

I used to walk that there “two mile and “half.

You'd walk thicky “nine “mile. or again

That finished “that job.

I wouldn’t have “thicky job.

There are certain cases where either one form or the other seems to be required. In particular, /рat/ is used when actually indicating a size with the hands:

Go up and see the stones “that length, “that thickness. while /рi-ki:/ is used in contrast with /t?-рr/, where Standard English would normally use ‘one’ or ‘the one’.

Soon as they got it “thicky hand, they’d thruck(?) it away with the
“tother.

In the adjective plural, the contrast between /рi-ki:/ and /рej/ is not a real one, since /рi-ki:/ is found only with numerals.

I had thicky “eighteen “bob a “week.

I expect thicky “nine was all “one “man’s sheep.

When presented with /рi-ki:/ before plural nominals, the informant rejected them. It would therefore be preferable to redefine ‘singular’ and
‘plural’ in the dialect to account for this, rather than to consider /рi- ki:/ as a plural form; this would accordingly neutralize in the plural any
/рi-ki:/:/рat/ opposition which may exist in the singular.

In the pronominal system, there is only one occurrence of /рi-ki:/:

My missis bought “thicky before her “died (a radio).

It is true that most of the occurrences of /рal/ as a pronoun do not refer to a specific antecedent, e.g. I can’t afford to do “that, but there are a number of cases where /рat/ does play a role closely parallel to /рi- ki:/ above.

As “I was passing “that, and “that was passing “me (a dog).

As there are no other examples of /рi-ki:/ as a singular pronoun, either simply or as part of a ‘first’ or ‘second compound’, and no cases at all in the plural, it seems fair to say that any /рat/:/рi-ki:/ opposition is realized only in the singular adjective, and that here too it is difficult to see what the basis of any opposition might be. A list of representative examples of /рat/, /рat р?r/, /рi-ki:/ and /рi-ki: р?r/ is given below, in their function as singular adjectives, so that they can easily be compared.

/рat/

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