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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

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collections, and of correspondents consulted; whilst Vol.

VI, besides a Supplement of 179 pages, gives a Bibliography of Books and MSS.

quoted, with a full Index; to which is added the _English Dialect Grammar_.
This _English Dialect Grammar_ was also published, in 1905, as a separate work, and contains a full account of the phonology of all the chief dialects, the very variable pronunciation of a large number of leading words being accurately indicated by the use of a special set of symbols; the Table of Vowel-sounds is given at p.13.The Phonology is followed by an Accidence, which discusses the peculiarities of dialect grammar.

Next follows a rather large collection of important words, that are differently pronounced in different counties; for example, more than thirty variations are recorded of the pronunciation of the word _house_.

The fulness of the Vocabulary in the Dictionary, and the minuteness of the account of the phonology and accidence in the Grammar, leave nothing to desire.


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