mind - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
mind, mine
1 n Attention, heed, thought. [dare mind B2 ‘attention, heed’ chiefly South, South Midland]
Ulst.:
1942 Bangor Words 54 = thought: ‘I gave no mind to it’.
U.S.:
1923 Taylor Snake Co Talk 214 = attention: ’He wouldn’t give no mind to me’.
1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 19 Don’t pay them no mind.
1982 Ginns Snowbird Gravy 136 Nobody paid it no mind.
2 vb To remember, recall. [oed mind vb 2 ‘to remember, have in one’s memory’ 1382→, now archaic and dialect; dost mind vb 2 ‘to remember, have in mind’ 1661→; snd mind vb 1 ‘to remember, recollect, call to mind’; dare mind C2 ‘to remember’ especially South, South Midland]
Ulst.:
1880 Patterson Antrim/Down Glossary 68 = to remember: ‘I don’t mind much about my father bein’ killed’.
1897 McIlroy Lint in Bell Wur rooted an’ grundet in the faith — har’ly minin’ a time whun we were outside the fold.
1942 Bangor Words 54 Oh, I mind you rightly now, you used to live across the street.
1953 Traynor Donegal Glossary 185 = to remember, recollect, bear in mind; recall: ‘I don’t mind when I was at the pictures’.
1981 Pepper Ulster-English Dict 50 D’ye mine the day we all went up the Cavehill fir a picnic and it poured?
1983 Marshall Drumlister 30 I mind them in the moonlight / Shearing at the corn.
1990 McIntyre Some Handlin’ 40 We all mind the day we went to the Folk Museum.
U.S.:
c1765 Woodmason Carolina Backcountry 154 If any of You should fall out about Your Calves and Your Kine, You be sure to mind and think upon Abraham.
1860 Week 122 I mind I was powerful sick then, and I do believe, Mister, I should ’a’ died but for some truck the Gineral gave me, God bless him!
1923 (in 1952 Mathes Tall Tales 8) I mind it jest like hit was yisterday.
1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 16 Don’t you mind the day he came?
3 vb To remind, bring to the mind or notice of. [oed mind vb 1a 1340→, now rare; dost mind vb 1 ‘to put (one) in mind of (something), to remind’ 1524→; snd mind vb 4 ‘to remind, to bring to one’s notice, to jog one’s memory’; dare mind C1 ‘to remind’ chiefly South, South Midland]
Ulst.:
1880 Patterson Antrim/Down Glossary 68 = to remind: ‘Now mind me of that to-morrow’.
1893 Bullock Awkward Squad 96 I wus minded to pass around the word to stale up to the walls an’ have a peep.
1953 Traynor Donegal Glossary 185 Mind me of that another time.
U.S.:
1899 Green Virginia Word-Book 282 = remind: ’He minded me of my purpose’.
1942 Hall Phonetics 53 He minds me of you.
1963 Edwards Gravel 122 I’m minded of the time when I was a strip of a boy and Pap was alive.
4 vb To watch, be aware of, give heed to. [oed mind vb 6 ‘to admonish, recall to, bethink oneself, ponder’; dost mind vb 2b ‘to direct the attention to, give heed to’]
Ulst.:
1880 Patterson Antrim/Down Glossary 68 = to observe: ‘See, d’ye mind the way she’s walkin’?’
1885 Lyttle Robin Gordon 27 Na, A’ll no min’ it this mornin’.
1934 Cavanagh Dunleary Legend 13 Them wee weans takes a dale of minding.
1942 Bangor Words 54 = attend: ‘Mind the baby for me’.
1953 Traynor Donegal Glossary 185 Do you mind the way he’s talking?
1983 Pepper Ulster Knowledge 37 Today’s variants of this involve heeding injunctions to ‘Mind the dog’ and ‘Mind the tar’.
1993 Montgomery Barnish 60 ‘Mind yoursel’’ = Look after yourself.
U.S.:
1834 Crockett Narrative 39 I reported to Col. Coffee the news. He didn’t seem to mind my report a bit, and this raised my dander higher than ever.
1939 Hall Coll I heard him a-hollerin’. He called for me to come up there and mind the coons up the tree.
