this dialect district contains a lot of the west country.
the vowels of barnes's dorset dialect according to tom burton, note that his use of dialect is strange in some ways compared to other dialect speakers
| vowel | examples |
|---|---|
| /i/ | bewar, wi', rejâice, happy, ev'ry. |
| /ɪ/ | bin, clim, gilcup, kip, 'ithin. |
| /ɛ/ | peck, elem, eth, het, heth. |
| /a/ | agg, anngel, blather, chammer, clavy. |
| /ɑ/ | drap, beyand, gnot, Jahn, sarra. |
| /ɒ/ | among, hoss, Shodon, sloth, wo'th. |
| /ʌ/ | brudge, clum, hovel, rudge, ruf. |
| /ʊ/ | food, gookoo, look, moot, 'ood. |
| /u/ | won't, into, to. |
| /ə/ | da, buildèn, feller, o, ther. |
| /iː/ | cheem, evemen, gi'e, sheen, vlee. |
| /eː/ | clā, brēak, drēve, crēp, dēal. |
| /ɛː/ | ā'ter, cafe, age, chāk, flānt. |
| /aː/ | al, bal, always, sartan, warm. |
| /ɔː/ | auver, thought, water, lauk, brawny. |
| /oː/ | abrode, bote, brode, brote, cloas. |
| /uː/ | agoo, coose, goo, goold, noo. |
| /əː/ | athirt, curdle, herd, girt, bird. |
| /æɪ/ | afrâid, nâighbour, âir, bây, gwâin. |
| /əːɪ/ | awoy, buoy, chile, drīth, vire. |
| /əːu/ | foüght, bough, our, doust, rout. |
| /jɛ/ | agiën, ghiame, biake, skia'ce, yable. |
| /jɛə/ | fiair, hiair, piair, diairy, viairy. |
| /jɛː/ | bekiaze. |
| /jaː/ | giarden, kiard, miaster, piart, spiarde. |
| /iə/ | beät, cheäk, beän, clear, geät. |
| /ɛə/ | square, rear, where, ware, bear. |
| /uə/ | avore, door, huosse, moornen, nuone. |
the sound of william barnes's dialect poems is a collection of barnes's dialect poems, fully phonemically transcribed and with audio recordings.