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Search - Reprinted Glossaries - Vol IV

Reprinted Glossaries - Vol IV
Author: Walter W. Skeat

CONTENTS OF IAltT IV. INTRODUCTION TO PART IV. ... ... ... ... XVIII. VARIOUS DIALECTAL WORDS FROM BP. KENNETTS PARO CHIAL ANTIQUITIES ... ... ... ... XIX. WILTSHIRE WORDS FROM J. BRITTONS BEAUTIES OF WILTSHIRE COMPARED WITH AKERMANS WILTSHIRE GLOSSARY, AND THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR SEPT., 1814 ... ... ... ... ... .,. XX. EAST-ANGLIAN WORDS BY TH... more »E REV. W. T. SPURDENS SUPPLEMENTAL TO FORBYS GLOSSARY OF EAST-ANGLIA XXI. WORDS IN USE AT HAWSTED, SUFFOLK FROX THE REV. SIR J. CULLUMS HISTORY OF HAWSTED ... ., . XXII. SUPPLEMENT IN 1796 TO EAST-YORKSHIRE WORDS, BY MR. MARSHALL, 1778 PRIXTED AS GLOSSARY B. 2. INDEX TO GLOSSARIES XVIII-XXII . . , ... . . PAGE vii INTRODUCTION TO PART IT. 1 HOPE that such readers as may be somewhat tired of seeing a continuation of the Reprinted Glossaries v i l k l indly take into account the great value they have for zealous and. earnest students. With the present, Part, we come almost to an end of the more important of what may be called the minor Glossaries. Those who wish to work at dialects can only be thankful for the time and expense saved by such reprints as are given in the present volume. The reader will find here collected all the dialectal words contained in no less than ten volumes, since Kennetts work ed. 1818 is in two volumes, Rrittons Beauties of Wiltshire in three, and Glossary XIX. also contains words from the Monthly Magazine for 1814. Little need be said here about the several Glossaries, as each has a brief Introduction of its own prehed to it but I may add a few words as to the copies to which I had access. The original edition 1695 of Kennetts Parochial Antiquities I have never been able to see the edition of 1818 is in the Cambridge University Library and of the edition of 1816 I have a copy of my own. The two latter have been carefully collated. I am also indebted to the same library for the use of Brittons Beauties of Wiltshire and the Monthly Magazine. Of Akermans Glossary, Spurdens East-Anglian Words, and Cullurns History of Hawsted, I possess copies of my own. The supplementary words to Marshalls East-Yorkshire words were transcribed by inyself from a copy kindly lent by Mr. Parish. Some may suppose that the editing of these reprints is easy work, and miglrt be done by anybody. Perhaps it might, after a sort but to edit them with due care requires, in my opinion, considerable experience in such work and I believe it will be found, in time, that viii INTRODUCTION TO PART IV. B. 16-22. various minute additions and corrections have been made in this volume, which are calculated to save a good deal of misapprehension on small points...

ISBN-13: 9781408640388
ISBN-10: 1408640384
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 332
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