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Page vii
I have in no case considered whether a word was widely known , or peculiar to this district ; so that if in my opinion it was a dialect word , I have inserted it , though common from John o ' Groats to the Land's End . On this point I ...
I have in no case considered whether a word was widely known , or peculiar to this district ; so that if in my opinion it was a dialect word , I have inserted it , though common from John o ' Groats to the Land's End . On this point I ...
Page viii
Very numerous words which he gives as “ Somerset ” or “ West , ” are either obsolete or quite unknown , while many others described as peculiar to other districts , are familiar in this , and probably have been so for agesCheatery fraud ...
Very numerous words which he gives as “ Somerset ” or “ West , ” are either obsolete or quite unknown , while many others described as peculiar to other districts , are familiar in this , and probably have been so for agesCheatery fraud ...
Page ix
Moreover , Pulman's district is closely allied to this , as also is that of Nathan Hogg and Peter Pindar . It will be understood then that any word given as Somerset by Halliwell , if not mentioned herein , is unknown in West Somerset ...
Moreover , Pulman's district is closely allied to this , as also is that of Nathan Hogg and Peter Pindar . It will be understood then that any word given as Somerset by Halliwell , if not mentioned herein , is unknown in West Somerset ...
Page x
Imperfect imitation of foreign pronunciation of imported words leads to variety of sound in different districts , and eventually to apparent change , when the form of a particular district or a literary appreciation becomes the standard ...
Imperfect imitation of foreign pronunciation of imported words leads to variety of sound in different districts , and eventually to apparent change , when the form of a particular district or a literary appreciation becomes the standard ...
Page xii
Of myself , it is enough to say that I have lived for more than fifty years in the district , and have had the best possible opportunities of hearing and of practising my native tongue , while for over twenty years I have been a ...
Of myself , it is enough to say that I have lived for more than fifty years in the district , and have had the best possible opportunities of hearing and of practising my native tongue , while for over twenty years I have been a ...
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| Title | The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Volume 35 Issue 50 of Publication, English Dialect Society The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Frederick Thomas Elworthy |
| Author | Frederick Thomas Elworthy |
| Publisher | For the Englis ̈dialect society, Trübner & Company, 1886 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 876 pages |
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