On the south Lancashire dialect Author:Thomas Heywood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CORRIGENDA. Page 5, add to Abreviations, Wil., for Wilbraham's Cheshire Glossary. Page 8, line 15, after "appended Glossary," omit the rest of the sentence... more ». Page 10, line 8 from bettom,/or "ought" read "aught." Page 18, line 5, omit the repetition of " os weet." Page 19, line 12 from bottom, for "yoodn, you was," read "you would." Page 22, line 4 from bottom,/or " curded" read " carded." Page 23, line 17,/or "vol. iii." read "vol. iv." Page 24, line 9 from bottom,/or "last 4to." read "first 4to." Page 28, lines 10 and 11, after " (lacet, Fr.)" read " unlaight." Page 28, line 3 from bottom, for " crowming" read " cromming." Page 35, line 5, for " flower" read " flour." Page 41, line f,for " Slackthwaite" read " Staithwaite in the parish of Almondbury." Page 43, lino 4, note 16,/or "them" read "it." Page 43, line 3, note 11, for " no relations" read " no near relations." Page 58, line 29, for " exlmberant" read " exuberant." Page 69, line 8 of note 36, for "Thomas" read "Robert." Page 83, in voce " Pot baws" dele " 46." chapter{Section 4ON THE SOUTH LANCASHIRE DIALECT. The Language of a district and its History although seldom altogether elucidating each other are too closely interwoven to be separated. Lancashire had no existence in its present limits until long after the geography of its dialects was fixed. Camden, somewhat conjecturally, mentions a Saxon Lancashire, and Baines dates the county from the returns of a sheriff temp. Stephen. But divisions of less importance than our shires then bore the name, and it is well here to dismiss the idea of the County Palatine in its present entirety, and, with a view to the language, examine what we gather from writers of authority of the parts so strangely united to form an appana...« less