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Examples
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I think you’ve always been pretty rascible towards me.
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"See arter the TIMES, Thomas; let me look at the MORNIN 'HERALD, when it's out o' hand; don't forget to bespeak the CHRONICLE; and just bring the 'TIZER, vill you:" and then he'd set vith his eyes fixed on the clock, and rush out, just a quarter of a minit 'fore the time to waylay the boy as wos a-comin 'in with the evenin' paper, which he'd read with sich intense interest and persewerance as worked the other customers up to the wery confines o 'desperation and insanity,' specially one i-rascible old gen'l'm'n as the vaiter wos always obliged to keep a sharp eye on, at sich times, fear he should be tempted to commit some rash act with the carving-knife.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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"See arter the TIMES, Thomas; let me look at the MORNIN 'HERALD, when it's out o' hand; don't forget to bespeak the CHRONICLE; and just bring the 'TIZER, vill you:" and then he'd set vith his eyes fixed on the clock, and rush out, just a quarter of a minit 'fore the time to waylay the boy as wos a-comin 'in with the evenin' paper, which he'd read with sich intense interest and persewerance as worked the other customers up to the wery confines o 'desperation and insanity,' specially one i-rascible old gen'l'm'n as the vaiter wos always obliged to keep a sharp eye on, at sich times, fear he should be tempted to commit some rash act with the carving-knife.
The Pickwick papers 1836
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