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be v Cp EDD be VIII 5 do be (Ir); DBE be1 bes,
doesn't be; be2 does be (white), ~ (boiling); DARE be: B 1 g 'habitual
action or usual condition' (1917-81); C 1 b isn't; C 2 a wasn't; C 2 d weren't. See
AIN'T.
be's, bee's:
1927
Christmas Messenger 13 "Big Davey's 'Come-All-Ye's'": Sometimes we be's gathered
about the stage-door. T 266-66 And we always bees be frightened. T 1052-72 So she was
goin to the high school an' he bes [b z] in the lower school. P 306-73 I be's right
tired.
don't be:
T 236-66 And now I
don't be tellin this story, ya see. T 245-66 Don't be talkin! 1982 MCDOOLING 115 [Irish
settlement] Some of them [berths] don't be very good.
isn't
pronunciations: [cp AIN'T: ent]
T 70-64 That's a great cuffer,
int it? That's a great story, isn't it? T 171-65 'Art, boy, I got a bottle o' syrup!'
'Nah!' he said, 'Tidn't a bottle o' syrup!' And I said, 'Tis!'C 71-100 'Id'n'em,
squid'n'em?' asked an elderly fisherman speaking to another who had just come in from his
lobster pots and who replied, 'Narn, all et up.' [Cp MAJOR below.] 1973 BARBOUR 85 from
the back of the little school chapel boomed a thundering voice, 'Naw, naw, dat idden de
number I put on de paper.' 1981 MAJOR 36 'Grandfather,' I said after a while, 'squiddin
is a lot o' fun, idn't it?' 'Yes, b'y, it is so.' 1985 A Yaffle of Yarns 94 'I
idn't half nor quarter well dis marnin' 'cos I didn't close a "heye" last night.' 1987
FIZZARD 189 I said 'That's a good one, e'den it? We won't be long going down if they do
change their mind on us.'
wasn't pronunciations: T 409-67
There was plenty o' fish, but you couldn't fish...at them times down there. You wadden
allowed to fish. T 449-67 (Were the children ever afraid of the mummers?) Yes, some
was, and some...some more waddent. T 751-70 Clear o' that there wadden nobody knowed un
clear of I. 1985 Nfld LifeStyle iii (1), 24 If 'twoodin fer Wilson Earle and
Twillingate eye school, I [wouldn't have] ben able to read yer recipe on page 29.
weren't pronunciations: T 47-64 If you werdn't up to the
standard, we'll say if you couldn't do either [any] job reasonably, they'd send ya down.
T 541-67 When you go on dole, I call it, you werd'n allowed to catch n'ar fish. No, that
you werd'n.
being pronunciations:
1929 [1982] MADISON (ed) 13 "The Wreck of the S.S. Ethie":
[One brave man] says he can guide her safely on the shore./Walter Young been our purser,
as you may understand/Volunteered for to guide her safely into the land. P 148-63 [sign
in store] Everything been sold at rock bottom prices.
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