Nine specimens of English dialects edited from various sources / by Walter Skeat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.

Series:

English Dialect Society. Publications ; 76.

[Publications] / English Dialect Society ; no. 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects.

English language.

English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 193 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vaduz : Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1965.

Contents:

The York minster screen (in the dialect of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1833) / by George Newton Brown

Jim an' Nell (a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon, 1867) / by William Frederick Rock

John Noakes and Mary Styles (in the dialect of Essex, 1839) / by Charles Clark

A Yorkshire dialogue in Yorkshire dialect : between an awd wife, a lass, and a butcher (from an old broadside, 1673)

A Norfolk dialogue (in the dialect of Central Norfolk, 1800) / by Joshua Larwood

A Lonsdale dialogue (in the dialect of Burton-in-Lonsdale, 1801) / by William Seward

A day in the Haaf (in the dialect of Shetland, 1822) / by Samuel Hibbert

A wooing song of a yeoman of Kents Sonne / from "Melismata" by T. Ravenscroft, 1611

A Yorkshire dialogue in its pure natural dialect : as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of Yorkshire / by G[eorge] M[eriton], 1684

A collection of proverbs / by Francis Brokesby

An alphabetical clavis / by the same.

Notes:

Forms with Samuel Pegge's Two collections of Derbicisms [Publications. no. 78] vol. XXXII of the society's Publications. Each specimen followed by glossary.

OCLC:

186522198