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Search - Reprinted Glossaries - Vol I

Reprinted Glossaries - Vol I
Author: Walter W. Skeat

CONTENTS PART INTRODUCTION TO PART I ... . . . . . . . . . I. GLOSSARY OF NORTH OF ENGLAND WORDS, FROM A TOUR TO THE CAVES ... .., . . . . . . ... 11. EAST YORKSHIRE WORDS BY MR MARSIIALL . . . . . . 111. EAST NORFOLK WORDS BY THE SAME ... ... IV. PROVINCIALISMS OF THE VALE OF GLOUCESTZR BY THE SANE . . . ... ... . . . ... . . . V. PEOVINCIALISJ... more »LS OF LEICESTEBSIIIRE, IVARWICKSHIRE, ETC. BY THE SANE ... . . . . . . ... W. PROVINCIALISMS OF WEST DEVONSIIIRE BY THE SAME ... VII. WEST-RIDISG WORDS BY DR WILLAN ... ... INDEX TO GLOSSARIES I-V11 ... ... . a. a.. PA . O . E . 111 Page 20, note 1. i fr Marshall is right in mentioning Brokesby I was thinking of Thoresbys communication to Ray, which is a different matter.--TV. TV. S. INTRODUCTION TO PART I. THE study of English Dialccts has hitherto lain under several disadvantages, oiic of which is the difficulty of consulting the various works that have appeared on the subject. Many glossarics have been issued in the form of mere appendices to works upon very different suhjccts, whence two hindrances at once arise. First, it is not a l aeyassy to find them, or to ascertain the titles of the works containing them and secondly, the student has then to purchase tlie vork, probably a large or scarce one, and perhaps both, for the mcre sake of some five or six pqges in it. This necessarily involves trouble and expense, whilst the glossary is in a, very unhandy form after all. These impediments are all removed by the isslie of such reprints as those contained in this volume. The first seven glossaries save the space, and a large part of the expense, of no less t. han eleven octaro volumes, and one in quarto, whilst at the same time it is easy to turn from one to the other by merely turning over the leaves. It is not necessary to say much about the books containing the glossaries, because a short account of each workeis in each case prefixed. It is, however, as mell to state here that all comment has bccn carefully refrained from, except in a very few cases where a remark seemed absslutely requisite. I t mill readily bc understood that the authors make their statements for what they are worth, and that they occasionally utter opinions which probably no mcmber of the English Dialect Society would endorse as when, for example, RIr liarshall talks about the Vale of Pickering being so secluded that probably no Roman, Dane, or Saxon, ever set foot in it p. 17. A few prefatory remarks may still, however, find place here. In Glossary I, the author gives us small clue as to the locality of his words, as he simply labels them North of England. Since, liomever, his place of residence was Burton-in-Kendal, and his work treats of the Caves in tlie West-Riding of Yorkshire, we may perhaps refer the majority of thcm to J estmo elantdh, e West of Yorkshire, and the Korthern part of Lancashire. His Iiltroductory Rcmarks are very sensible, though we may perhaps deniur to the opinion tliat many of the worcls are of Greek extraction still we may mell be grateful to him for riot having attempted tq derive any of theni. I t is pcrhaps proper to add that the parts of speech as v. for vcrb, sb. for substantive, C. arc duly noted by J. H. and Dr iv IXTRODUCTION TO PART I. B. 1-7...

ISBN-13: 9781408640371
ISBN-10: 1408640376
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 368
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