Hyem vs Hym - What's the difference?
hyem | hym |
(Geordie) home
* [19th c.] 1993, Ned Corvan, “Yer Gannin to be a Keelman,” in Visions of the People, Patrick Joyce [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=z_nMtyp7XCEC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&sig=SHwbkD-bXZaWxJharfiXxajyEGU]
* 1848 , Sinks of London Laid Open [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=lPxnKPkEiIUC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&sig=x_Oewc6FofCOUc2zaUQQIdcfZsw]
* 1985, David Wright tr. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=hXCi_DViuqwC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&sig=3KRd23dvj1DbGak23VXz2q-VDDc]
* {{quote-book, year=c. 1500, author=Anonymous, title=A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This yere the kyng toke the Ile of Cipre; and the prynce of the same ile he lete folowe hym in sylver cheynes. }}
* {{quote-book, year=c. 1660, author=Unknown, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=The Distracted Emperor, edition=
, passage=If in thys p[ro]myst throng of future ill There may be found a way to anye good Of brave Orlando'' the great palladyne, My constant industry shall tyer the day And outwatche night but I will fynde it for hym'''; And yf to doe '''hym good-- ''Enter La Fue . }}
English third person pronouns
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As a noun hyem
is (geordie) home.As a pronoun hym is
.hyem
English
Alternative forms
* heyem (Northern English dialect) * hjem (Geordie) * yem (Geordie)Noun
(-)- Ye’ll be comin’ hyem at neets, with yor fyece all ower black,
- And ye’ll lie an snore aside the fire, and never gis yor crack, [...]
- “He had just come in,” he said, “to see if his mate was come hyem yet; but as he had not, he thought he could guess right weel where he wad be, and wad just step o’er to Brown’s (the gin-shop) and see.”
- And so Aah’s cum, and also brought Alan,
- To grind wor corn, and bring it hyem again;
- Aah begs ye de the job fast as ye can.
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