(Anglo-French) form, though now only preserved in the Rouchi dialect, spoken on the borders of France and Belgium, and nearly allied to Norman; in fact, M.Hecart, the author of the _Dictionnaire_ _Rouchi-Fran{c,}ais_, says he had heard the word in Normandy, and he gives a quotation for it from Olivier Basselin, a poet who lived in Normandy at the beginning of the fifteenth century.

The Parisian form is _chantier_, which Cotgrave explains as "a Gauntrey...

for hogs-heads to stand on." Here is a clear example of a word which is of Norman, or A.F., origin; and there must be many more such of which the A.F.form is lost.

There is no greater literary disgrace to England than the fact that there is no reasonable Dictionary in existence of Anglo-French, though it contains hundreds of highly important legal terms.

It ought, in fact, to have been compiled before either the _English Dialect Dictionary_ or the _New English Dictionary_, both of which have suffered from the lack of it.
It would indeed be tedious to enumerate the vast number of French words in our dialects.