Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. In Survey of French Dialects (Routledge, 1994, 2013), there’s an entry for straw, which I reproduce by image (sorry, to transcribe the information in the image is beyond me). There are over a dozen dialectal pronunciations of straw shown in the image.

Several list of these are represented by spelling stror.

To demonstrate that Wells’s use in The Invisible Man is not a typo, you can consult images of a published book, which are much less likely to contain typos or scanning errors than are found in such formats as zip, pdf, etc. Why can’t people find images of published books for free?

I like o’ Man so it is that I can look up the word stror in Google Books. I didn’t like it, that’s all.

“Can’t help it, if the wind blows my stror,” said Mr. Rumbold, still far from clear about it…. “It isn’t ordinary civility,” said Mr. Polly. I decided to unpack my bags ‘ow it suits me? If it’s the thing in your arms that blows into one’s eyes, can’t unpack it.

Stor, in the sentence, means straw. When Rumbold was standing up, this strawy thing knocked his ear out like a tornado.

It’s not clear what it means here?

If there aren’t any people in he kin lie in er corner on th’ stror under his blanket an’ sleep, an’ sometimes he kin stay lyin’ on the stror when there’s

on’y a few, so long ez he growls a bit an’ stretches hisself (emphasis mine)

Which spellings are most often used in this format in conjunction with English dialectal spellings, to simplify sentences with more correct syntax at shorter sentences? Standard spelling is If

there aren’t any people in he can lie in her(?) corner under his blanket and sleep, and sometimes he can stay lying on the straw when there’s only a few people in so long as he growls and stretches himself.

In rustic or rural settings people often had to use “straw beds” in poor circumstances or where the only material available for a matting was straw, as in a barn.

Last, I’ve found two uses of stror in Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2011 online version), including

I suppose if the Toffs took a fancy for chewing a stror or a twig / Like a tout or a hostler.

(1879 Arry on Crutches’ in Punch 3 May 201/1 (emphasis mine); found in the entry for the word tout) Somehow

in anglo (US) culture, there’s an oft-repeated scene or habit of people who put a piece of straw in their mouths and “chew” on it. By straw, I don’t mean the plastic/glass tube you use to suck a liquid into your mouth, but “a stem of any cereal plant, esp. What are plastic/glass straws used for?

Like Greens: I ‘all

turn with a snappy birthday party with stror coloured ‘air. Also, from Greens: I ‘ad several turns.

(1918) “Arry at a political Pic–Nic” in Punch 11 Oct. 21. 180/1 (from the entry for snappy.) The OED attests

to the use of straw to refer to straw-colored hair, most recently from the 1970s. Stror is not in the OED OED online version.

I think it’s a phonetic spelling of in dialect (straw is mentioned in an adjacent sentence).

I think it’s a phonetic spelling of in dialect (straw is mentioned in an adjacent sentence).

Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. In Survey of French Dialects (Routledge, 1994, 2013), there’s an entry for straw, which I reproduce by image (sorry, to transcribe the information in the image is beyond me). There are over a dozen dialectal pronunciations of straw shown in the image.

Several list of these are represented by spelling stror.

To demonstrate that Wells’s use in The Invisible Man is not a typo, you can consult images of a published book, which are much less likely to contain typos or scanning errors than are found in such formats as zip, pdf, etc. Why can’t people find images of published books for free?

I like o’ Man so it is that I can look up the word stror in Google Books. I didn’t like it, that’s all.

“Can’t help it, if the wind blows my stror,” said Mr. Rumbold, still far from clear about it…. “It isn’t ordinary civility,” said Mr. Polly. I decided to unpack my bags ‘ow it suits me? If it’s the thing in your arms that blows into one’s eyes, can’t unpack it.

Stor, in the sentence, means straw. When Rumbold was standing up, this strawy thing knocked his ear out like a tornado.

It’s not clear what it means here?

If there aren’t any people in he kin lie in er corner on th’ stror under his blanket an’ sleep, an’ sometimes he kin stay lyin’ on the stror when there’s

on’y a few, so long ez he growls a bit an’ stretches hisself (emphasis mine)

Which spellings are most often used in this format in conjunction with English dialectal spellings, to simplify sentences with more correct syntax at shorter sentences? Standard spelling is If

there aren’t any people in he can lie in her(?) corner under his blanket and sleep, and sometimes he can stay lying on the straw when there’s only a few people in so long as he growls and stretches himself.

In rustic or rural settings people often had to use “straw beds” in poor circumstances or where the only material available for a matting was straw, as in a barn.

Last, I’ve found two uses of stror in Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2011 online version), including

I suppose if the Toffs took a fancy for chewing a stror or a twig / Like a tout or a hostler.

(1879 Arry on Crutches’ in Punch 3 May 201/1 (emphasis mine); found in the entry for the word tout) Somehow

in anglo (US) culture, there’s an oft-repeated scene or habit of people who put a piece of straw in their mouths and “chew” on it. By straw, I don’t mean the plastic/glass tube you use to suck a liquid into your mouth, but “a stem of any cereal plant, esp. What are plastic/glass straws used for?

Like Greens: I ‘all

turn with a snappy birthday party with stror coloured ‘air. Also, from Greens: I ‘ad several turns.

(1918) “Arry at a political Pic–Nic” in Punch 11 Oct. 21. 180/1 (from the entry for snappy.) The OED attests

to the use of straw to refer to straw-colored hair, most recently from the 1970s. Stror is not in the OED OED online version.

Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. In Survey of French Dialects (Routledge, 1994, 2013), there’s an entry for straw, which I reproduce by image (sorry, to transcribe the information in the image is beyond me). There are over a dozen dialectal pronunciations of straw shown in the image.

Several list of these are represented by spelling stror.

To demonstrate that Wells’s use in The Invisible Man is not a typo, you can consult images of a published book, which are much less likely to contain typos or scanning errors than are found in such formats as zip, pdf, etc. Why can’t people find images of published books for free?

I like o’ Man so it is that I can look up the word stror in Google Books. I didn’t like it, that’s all.

“Can’t help it, if the wind blows my stror,” said Mr. Rumbold, still far from clear about it…. “It isn’t ordinary civility,” said Mr. Polly. I decided to unpack my bags ‘ow it suits me? If it’s the thing in your arms that blows into one’s eyes, can’t unpack it.

Stor, in the sentence, means straw. When Rumbold was standing up, this strawy thing knocked his ear out like a tornado.

It’s not clear what it means here?

If there aren’t any people in he kin lie in er corner on th’ stror under his blanket an’ sleep, an’ sometimes he kin stay lyin’ on the stror when there’s

on’y a few, so long ez he growls a bit an’ stretches hisself (emphasis mine)

Which spellings are most often used in this format in conjunction with English dialectal spellings, to simplify sentences with more correct syntax at shorter sentences? Standard spelling is If

there aren’t any people in he can lie in her(?) corner under his blanket and sleep, and sometimes he can stay lying on the straw when there’s only a few people in so long as he growls and stretches himself.

In rustic or rural settings people often had to use “straw beds” in poor circumstances or where the only material available for a matting was straw, as in a barn.

Last, I’ve found two uses of stror in Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2011 online version), including

I suppose if the Toffs took a fancy for chewing a stror or a twig / Like a tout or a hostler.

(1879 Arry on Crutches’ in Punch 3 May 201/1 (emphasis mine); found in the entry for the word tout) Somehow

in anglo (US) culture, there’s an oft-repeated scene or habit of people who put a piece of straw in their mouths and “chew” on it. By straw, I don’t mean the plastic/glass tube you use to suck a liquid into your mouth, but “a stem of any cereal plant, esp. What are plastic/glass straws used for?

Like Greens: I ‘all

turn with a snappy birthday party with stror coloured ‘air. Also, from Greens: I ‘ad several turns.

(1918) “Arry at a political Pic–Nic” in Punch 11 Oct. 21. 180/1 (from the entry for snappy.) The OED attests

to the use of straw to refer to straw-colored hair, most recently from the 1970s. Stror is not in the OED OED online version.

I think it’s a phonetic spelling of in dialect (straw is mentioned in an adjacent sentence).