“The” West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Volume 13; Volume 17Trübner, 1886 - 876 pages |
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Page v
... becoming familiar with local speech , but of deciding what is provincial or dialectal , and what is standard English ... become current , although they have not yet found their way into dictionaries , nor will they until Dr. Murray's ...
... becoming familiar with local speech , but of deciding what is provincial or dialectal , and what is standard English ... become current , although they have not yet found their way into dictionaries , nor will they until Dr. Murray's ...
Page vi
... become obsolete in literature . Both these subjects have been dealt with at some length in former papers published by this Society , and I shall therefore only endeavour now to notice some facts previously unobserved , or not adequately ...
... become obsolete in literature . Both these subjects have been dealt with at some length in former papers published by this Society , and I shall therefore only endeavour now to notice some facts previously unobserved , or not adequately ...
Page ix
... become conventional , and has lasted down through Fielding to our own day in Punch . But notwithstanding such authorities it is incorrect . Ben Jonson never heard anybody say varrier ( Tale of a Tub ) who was speaking his own genuine ...
... become conventional , and has lasted down through Fielding to our own day in Punch . But notwithstanding such authorities it is incorrect . Ben Jonson never heard anybody say varrier ( Tale of a Tub ) who was speaking his own genuine ...
Page xii
... become familiar not only with their forms of speech but with their mode of thought . No doubt in the plan adopted of giving nearly every word its setting in its own proper matrix , a great similarity and repetition of phrase will be ...
... become familiar not only with their forms of speech but with their mode of thought . No doubt in the plan adopted of giving nearly every word its setting in its own proper matrix , a great similarity and repetition of phrase will be ...
Page xix
... becomes unmistakable . May 28 , 1883. - A man said to me respecting a new tenant for a cottage he was quitting - He come to me and ax whe'er wadn nother ' ouse to let , and zo I let'n zeed the house to once . This man or any other ...
... becomes unmistakable . May 28 , 1883. - A man said to me respecting a new tenant for a cottage he was quitting - He come to me and ax whe'er wadn nother ' ouse to let , and zo I let'n zeed the house to once . This man or any other ...
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The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectcal and Archaic Words and ... Frederic Thomas Elworthy No preview available - 1888 |
Common terms and phrases
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