tell - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
tell ~ warn (A’m tellin ye, noo! — nae mair o yer nonsense). A’ll tell ye better nor that I have additional (esp. more significant) information (also A’ll tell ye what’s mair). A’m tellin ye I assure you it’s true (Well A’m tellin ye he did). Dae ye tell me that? Is that so? tak tellin obey orders; be obedient. tellin a warning, a lesson (Let that be a tellin tae ye); well for (It’s tellin ye ye can eat sae weel. It wud be tellin him the day if he had stuck at the learnin. It’ll naw be tellin ye if I catch ye at that agane). tell me this yin answer me this, if you can (or will — also tell me this an tell me nae mair). tell yin tell a lie. telt loc. told (Note: The usual form is towl).
