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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

PREFACE
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Homilies in Verse.

Prick of Conscience.

Minot's Poems.

Barbour's Bruce; with an extract.

Great extent of the Old Northern dialect; from Aberdeen to the Humber.
Lowland Scotch identical with the Yorkshire dialect of Hampole.
Lowland Scotch called "Inglis" by Barbour, Henry the Minstrel, Dunbar, and Lyndesay; first called "Scottis" by G.Douglas.
Dr Murray's account of the Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland.
V.NORTHUMBRIAN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.


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