English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 124 pages of information about English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day.

English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 124 pages of information about English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day.

Baker, Miss, 5
Barnes, William, 55, 111
Beda, 15
  his “death-song,” 15
  his History, 14, 15, 17, 56
Beowulf, 7-9
Bewcastle column, 20
Bladud, King, 50, 51
Blood-boltered, 5
Bolter, 5, 6
Boucher, Rev. J., Dialect Dictionary, 101, 102
Boy or child, 5
Brockett’s Glossary, 44
Bruce, by Barbour, 29-34
Brut, romance of, 49, 50, 51
Burns, Robert, 45, 113

C{ae}dmon, 15, 16
  his hymn, 17
Caxton, 40
Celtic words in dialects, 83-86
  list of, 85, 86
Charters, Kentish, 56, 57
  Mercian, 70
Chaucer, use of Kentish by, 63
  use of yon, 7
  use of asp, 68
Cheshire dialect, 122, 123
Child (girl), 5, 6
Cole, King, 51
Corpus Glossary, 67
Cursor Mundi, 27, 28, 35
Cymbeline, 50

Dialect defined, 1
Dialect glossaries, 102-103
Dialect writers, 111
Dialects, foreign elements in the, 82-98
  four old, 10,11
  groups of, 107
  modern, 106-109
  specimens of, 110, etc
Dialectic regeneration, 3
Dictionaries
    by Coles, Kersey, Bailey, Dr Johnson, and Ash, 101
  old, Promptorium and Catholicon, 100
Douglas, Gawain, 34
Dunbar, 33, 35
  quoted, 45
Dunstan, St, Life of, 51
Durham, Liber Vit{ae}, 20
  Ritual, 21

Eagre, 97
Earle, Prof., 14
Edinburgh dialect, 115, 116
Eliot
  see George
Ellis, A.J., Early English Pronunciation, 103
Erne, 6
English, the old name for Lowland Scotch, 33-35
English Dialect Dictionary, 85, 90, 104
English Dialect Grammar, 104
English Dialect Society, 103
English Metrical Homilies, 28
Essex dialect, 123, 124, 125

Fitzherbert, J., Boke of Husbandry, 99
Flittermouse, 4, 5
Flower and the Leaf, 38
French words in dialects, 93
  list of, 96-98

Galt, John, 45
Gauntree, 95
Gawayne and the Grene Knight, 81
George Eliot, use of dialect by, 111
Gloss, meaning of, 23
Glossaries of dialectal words, 102, 103
  Old English, 66, 67
Golden Targe, by Dunbar, 45
Gower, use of Kentish by, 62, 63
Greek words in dialects, 87
Grose, F., Provincial Glossary, 101

Hampole, R. Rolle of, 28, 32, 35
Handlyng Synne, quoted, 78, 79
Harleian MS. 2253, 52
Hebrew words in dialects, 88
Henry III., Proclamation of, 75-78
Henry the Minstrel, 33, 35
Higden, Ralph, 53
Hild, Abbess, 16
Hoccleve, 38
Hogg, James, 45
Homilies in Verse, 28
Horn, romance of, 50
Horstmann, Dr, 51
Hrinde (A.S.), 8, 9

Inglis, or Inglisch, 33-35
Isle of Wight dialect, 129, 130

Jamieson’s Dictionary, 43, 44
Jonson, Ben, 5
Juliana, St, 49
Jutes, 56

Keats, 4
Kentish, 10, 11, 12
  dialect, 56-64
  glosses, 57
  sermons, 58
Kentish e (A.S. y), 61-64
King Lear, 50

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