| Suffolk Dialect | Queen’s English | Suffolk Dialect | Queen’s English | |
| acrost | across | larn | learn | |
| afread | afraid | lectrizetty | electricity | |
| atwin | between | lotments | allotments | |
| axed | asked | lug | ear | |
| barney | quarrel | mardle | gossip | |
| bor | man, boy | mawher | girl, woman | |
| chimley | chimney | Norfick | Norfolk | |
| cuckoo | cocoa | occard | awkward | |
| dorg | dog | ont | won’t | |
| dussent | dare not | roight | right | |
| fild | field | shud | shed | |
| garped | gape | soide | side | |
| git | get | spong | narrow strip of land | |
| grut | great | suffen | something | |
| haller | shout | Suffurk | Suffolk | |
| hid | head | troshel | doorstep | |
| kittle | kettle | warter | water | |
| larf | laugh | zackly | exactly |
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METFIELD Tales From a Suffolk Village 1928–2017 