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1 online resource (999 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals Ser |
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Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Preface; The English Provincial Dialects; Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms; Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms; Index; Specimens of the Early English Language, Chronologically Arranged |
| Summary |
So far I may be permitted to speak without intrenching on the limits of criticism. A work containing more than 50,000 words, many of which have never appeared even in scattered glossaries, and illustrated, with very few exceptions, by original authorities, much contain valuable material for the philogist, even if disfigured by errors. With respect to the latter contingency, I am not acquainted with any glossary, comprising merely a few hundred words which does not contain blunders, although in many instances the careful attention of the editor has been specially directed to the task. Can I then anticipate that in a field so vast that no single life would sufice for a minute examination of every object, I could have escaped proportionate liabilities? That such may be pointed out I have little doubt, notwithstanding the pains to prevent their occurrence, but it will be manifestly unfair to make them the test of merit, or thence to pronounce a judgement on the accuracy of the whole |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Provincialisms -- Dictionaries
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English language -- Obsolete words -- Dictionaries
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English language -- Obsolete words.
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English language -- Provincialisms.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Containing.
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Criticism.
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Glossaries.
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Philogist.
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Work.
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English language -- Obsolete words
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English language -- Provincialisms
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429870828 |
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0429870825 |
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