“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 viii
... hand except in a few cases , where I have specially given my informant's initials ; but every word noted has been heard spoken by myself ( except as above ) , and must be accepted , or otherwise , on my own testimony alone . And here I ...
... hand except in a few cases , where I have specially given my informant's initials ; but every word noted has been heard spoken by myself ( except as above ) , and must be accepted , or otherwise , on my own testimony alone . And here I ...
Page ix
... hand , immediately over a fragment of looking - glass- Things seen is Intempural Things not seen is Inturnel . Sunday , Aug. 23 , 1885 . Another of my servants always says of a kind of artificial manure - " that there consecrated ...
... hand , immediately over a fragment of looking - glass- Things seen is Intempural Things not seen is Inturnel . Sunday , Aug. 23 , 1885 . Another of my servants always says of a kind of artificial manure - " that there consecrated ...
Page xv
... hands is completed . The few remarks I have now to make are but supplemental to that paper , and to the one on the ... hand , is frequently short i , as wik , wil , stil , for week , wheel , steel , & c . Short is very often long e in ...
... hands is completed . The few remarks I have now to make are but supplemental to that paper , and to the one on the ... hand , is frequently short i , as wik , wil , stil , for week , wheel , steel , & c . Short is very often long e in ...
Page xvii
... hand differences of sound in certain literary words do not exist with us . Hear , ear , here , year , are all alike - yuur " . The following words of lit. English ending in y drop this termination in the dialect , notwithstanding the ...
... hand differences of sound in certain literary words do not exist with us . Hear , ear , here , year , are all alike - yuur " . The following words of lit. English ending in y drop this termination in the dialect , notwithstanding the ...
Page xxvi
... hand to emptin ' o ' cloam ' s you'll vind here and there . Her's gwain to be a - buried to cemetery to dree o'clock marra t'arternoon . So also to is used in some cases before the gerund . I've a - tookt all Mr. Jones's grass to ...
... hand to emptin ' o ' cloam ' s you'll vind here and there . Her's gwain to be a - buried to cemetery to dree o'clock marra t'arternoon . So also to is used in some cases before the gerund . I've a - tookt all Mr. Jones's grass to ...
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