#the phonetically written sections are so incomprehensible to me that i've decided to just fully write them out once i piece them together
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dracula-dictionary · 1 year ago
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Dracula Dictionary, July 24th - Addendum
"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out. Mind, I don't say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn't in my time. They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's an' drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them—even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk.":
I wouldn't worry about them, miss. Those are tired stories. I'm not saying they were never true, but I am saying they haven't been true as long as I have been alive. They're good for tourists, but not for a nice young lady like you. The tourists from York and Leeds that are always eating cured herring and drinking tea and looking to buy cheap gemstones would believe anything. I wonder who would bother with telling lies to them - even the newspapers, which are full of nonsense.
"I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em; an', miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock.":
I must be going home now, miss. My granddaughter doesn't like to be kept waiting when dinner is ready. It takes me a long time to get up the stairs because there is so many of them; and, miss, by this time I am already very hungry.
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