Meanings
t'1
- Northern EnglandNorthern England form of the (most characteristic of Yorkshire, but also found in areas of Lancashire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire)
- YorkshireabbreviationShort for the (mostly in speech).
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Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."
1957 May 28, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 350
t'2
- abbreviationapocopicApocopic form of to.
Who wants t’ know?
2016, Jane Redd, chapter 33, in Solstice, [Lehi, Ut.]: Mirror Press, →ISBN, page 2571 more example
But more particulary that, / Where Lady was to wear a Hat; / And lay the Enſigns of their pride; / Their Silken Ornaments aſide; / Which would have been a wholſome Act, / T' encourage Woolen Manufact; […]
1690, Thomas d'Urfey, “Canto III”, in Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster: A Poem in Burlesque, London: […] Rich. Parker […], page 105
Origin
t' · article
- Old Englishþæt“the, that”
- Middle Englishthat
- Englisht'
From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun).
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