[English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. Skeat]@TWC D-Link bookEnglish Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day CHAPTER X 9/10
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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