this - 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.
this ~ demonstrative pron. this district; this part of the country (He daesnae leeve aboot this. It’s a lang road frae this tae that); here, this place (Clear ooty this, wud ye); the present time (She stied wae iz fae that tae this); it (used only where the speaker can’t quite recall the name, etc. referred to: Wha’s this towl me? Whar’s this he leeves? Mine me hoo’s this ye dae it. Why’s this he quat? Whun’s this ye’r gan?). adj. (of a particular day, etc.) next (They’r howlin it this Seterday — on the Saturday of this present week). this minute (see minute). this while (see while). this years, etc. for many years. (See frae.)
