apparently the dialect of lindsey is different to south lincolnshire. i'll have to find more information on how.
vowels of lindsey dialect, according to james oxley. he didn't use very precise phonetic symbols so i based some of them on a. j. ellis's (also not ipa) transcriptions. there may be inaccuracies because of that.
| vowel | examples |
|---|---|
| /ɪ/ | strickle, dizzy, string, eniff, smittle. |
| /ɛ/ | beg, any, wesh, lek, revet. |
| /a/ | daft, addle, chappil, aunt, warrand. |
| /ɔ/ | god, along, loft, office, thod. |
| /ʊ/ | guts, plum, blush, gust, push. |
| /ə/ | church, ferk, mern, therp, naätur. |
| /iː/ | need, freeze, ee, dee, beef. |
| /aː/ | dar, warn, larn, darling, garth. |
| /ɔː/ | salt, salve. |
| /uː/ | bloom, book, crook, move, fool. |
| /ɑɪ/ | ice, hide, syle, oblige, bright. |
| /eə/ | blaäde, daäze, aäge, daäy, braäy. |
| /eɪ/ | eight, eighteen. |
| /iə/ | eeat, bleeach, beeam, seeat, greease. |
| /ɪu/ | dew, hew, brew, blue, yewth. |
| /ɔə/ | calf, claw, haughty, born, blaw. |
| /ɔɪ/ | joy, coin. |
| /ʌu/ | gowd, nowght, flown, cowp, lowp. |
| /ʌu/, /u:/ (north) | crowd, drowned, house, about, doubt. (crood, drooned, etc.) |
| /ʊə/ | cooal, brooad, pooak, affoord, coord. |
the lindsey dialect by james e. oxley explains the historical phonology and grammar of north lincolnshire.