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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

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I may instance those on the dialect of Bedfordshire, by T.Batchelor, 1809; of Berkshire, by Job Lousley, 1852; Cheshire, by R.Wilbraham, 1820, 1826; East Anglia, by R.Forby, 1830, and by Nall, 1866; Teesdale, co.

Durham, by F.T.
Dinsdale, 1849; Herefordshire, by G.C.Lewis, 1839; Lincolnshire, by J.E.Brogden, 1866; Northamptonshire, by Miss A.E.Baker, 2 vols., 1854; the North Country, by J.T.Brockett, 1825, 1846; Somersetshire, by J.Jennings, 1825, 1869; Suffolk, by E.Moor, 1823; Sussex, by W.D.
Cooper, 1836, 1853; Wiltshire, by J.Y.Akerman, 1842; the Cleveland dialect (Yorks.), by J.C.Atkinson, 1868; the Craven dialect, by W.
Carr, 1824; and many more of the older type that are still of value.
We have also two fairly good general dictionaries of dialect words; that by T.Wright, 1857, 1869; and that by J.O.Halliwell, 2 vols., 1847, 11th ed., 1889.

See the exhaustive Bibliographical List of all works connected with our dialects in the _E.D.D._, pp.

1-59, at the end of vol.VI.
In 1869 appeared Part I of Dr A.J.

Ellis's great work on _Early English Pronunciation_, with especial reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer; followed by Part II of the same, on the Pronunciation of the thirteenth and previous centuries, of Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Old Norse, and Gothic.


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