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Examples
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I never heerd on anybody bilin 'up money in a kettle an' suppin 'goold soup, and I'm not a-goin' for to try. "
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An 'how you lent' im some - er - music - er suppin lak dat.
A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903
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She say out of nine you can always count on suppin 'happenin' that oughtn't, specially when five is boys.
Miss Gibbie Gault Kate Langley Bosher 1898
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It comes on the Fourth of July; they will be nine on the Fourth, Washington and Jefferson will, and muther's been wanting ever since they been born to celebrate their birthday, but suppin 'always happened; somebody was sick, or Wash and Jeff been fightin', so she couldn't in conscience give 'em a party.
Miss Gibbie Gault Kate Langley Bosher 1898
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"It's slow wark suppin 'buttermilk with a pitchfork."
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892
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He can read ony language back or forrit, up or doon, as easy as suppin 'sowens.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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Jimmy sat comfortably suppin 'his stiffshackle an smokin' a bit o 'bacca, an tried by all th' means in his power to wheedle th 'owd woman into his way o' thinkin '.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Well tha con goa an fotch Slinger aght o 'th' pigcoit (for aw reckon he's thear yet), but ha mich better ar ta, at sits thear suppin 'it?
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Aw remember once bein in a public haase, an 'ther wor two chaps sat quietly suppin ther pints o' fourpenny, when all at once one o 'ther wives coom in, an her een fair blazed when shoo saw him.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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After coughin once an 'suppin twice, he shut his e'en an' oppened his maath, an 'this is what coom aght: --
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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