Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words
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Author_James Orchard Halliwell
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Chesh
Chester Plays
Containing
Criticism
Cursor Mundi
Dry
early English dialect analysis
English dialectology
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Essex
Glossaries
historical linguistics
Holds
Illegible Text
Kent
Kyng Alisaunder
Lady
Langtoft
lexical variation
Linc
medieval English language
Morte Arthure
North
Philogist
philological research
Piers Ploughman
Provincial Words
Ray
regional vocabulary studies
Sages
Strong
Thi
Thou
Var
Vessel
Wolde
Work
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- ISBN 9781138615830
- Weight: 1161g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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So far I may be permitted to speak without intrenching on the limits of criticism. A work containing more than 50,000 words, many of which have never appeared even in scattered glossaries, and illustrated, with very few exceptions, by original authorities, much contain valuable material for the philogist, even if disfigured by errors. With respect to the latter contingency, I am not acquainted with any glossary, comprising merely a few hundred words which does not contain blunders, although in many instances the careful attention of the editor has been specially directed to the task. Can I then anticipate that in a field so vast that no single life would sufice for a minute examination of every object, I could have escaped proportionate liabilities? That such may be pointed out I have little doubt, notwithstanding the pains to prevent their occurrence, but it will be manifestly unfair to make them the test of merit, or thence to pronounce a judgement on the accuracy of the whole.
