I've always tuck pride in both you gals; but lawsy me, if Ann is goin' to GAUM 'erself from head to foot like a pig learnin' to root, why, I reckon I'll jest hang my head in shame."
"The Desired Woman"
Will N. Harben
She had been farm-servant to my mother's brother-James Hepburn, thy great-uncle as was; she were a poor, friendless wench, a parish 'prentice, but honest and GAUM-like, till a lad, as nobody knowed, come o'er the hills one sheep-shearing fra' Whitehaven; he had summat to do wi' th' sea, though not rightly to be called a sailor: and he made a deal on Nancy Hartley, just to beguile the time like; and he went away and ne'er sent a thought after her more.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell