I am reading the book “1100 words you need to know” and I face with a strange sentence:
“A little drummer boy grinned in me face whin I had admonished him wid the buckle av my belt for riotin’ all over the place.”
Also, I have another problem with some words such as “wid” and “av” in this sentence. I find a little description for wid in this link that explains wid is dialectal variant of “WITH”. It is possible that “whin” and “av” be dialectal variant of “WHEN” and “OF”, respectively?
Answer
I think the context is to be spoken/read with an accent. Where the grammatically correct sentence as far as American english would be:
A little drummer boy grinned in my face when I had admonished him
with the buckle of my belt for riotin’ all over the place
So I would say yes you are correct in thinking they are dialectal variants of those words.
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Source : Link , Question Author : mohammad , Answer Author : Nate W