4: VERB MORPHOLOGY
Referring to Sye, Capell (1954:107) wrote, “The language is rather difficult.” No doubt he had the verbs of the language in mind when he made this this statement.

I was gripping on to Sye's shirt so hard that my fingers had lost blood circulation and they cramped when I let go. I sat up and held on to Sye with an exploding mixture of emotions. I cried into his chest, and he embraced me ...

Many things came to Sye's mind that wanted to be said, but his tongue refused to push them into reality. Struggling for a moment, Sye finally settled to whisper in a strained voice,

Rae listened to Sye as she talked; the excitement was clearly read in Sye's face and felt in her words.

Thank yer kindly for mi comfortable tea. That's what you was about to sye, eh'!
No, 'tain't.

[…] is nicely depicted in the following literary picture of Sir Douglas Haig by a London Tommy: “Aig, 'e don't sye much, 'e don't; 'e don't, so to sye, sye nothink, sye nothink; but what 'e don't sye don't mean nothink, not 'arf; and when 'e do sye anythink—my Gawd!"

It was a terrible thing to sye of one that's everythink in the world to me, but seein' 'im there, all crumpled up, with one leg one wye, and the other leg another wye, […]

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