The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire

by James Jennings

Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, David Starner,

and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

"Goo little Reed!
Aforn tha vawk, an vor me plead:
Thy wild nawtes, mâ-be, thâ ool hire
Zooner than zâter vrom a lâre.
Zâ that thy Maester's pleas'd ta blaw 'em,
An haups in time thâ'll come ta knaw 'em
An nif za be thâ'll please ta hear,
A'll gee zum moor another year."—The Farewell.

THE Dialect of the West of England

PARTICULARLY SOMERSETSHIRE;

WITH A GLOSSARY OF WORDS NOW IN USE THERE; ALSO WITH POEMS AND OTHER PIECES EXEMPLIFYING THE DIALECT.

BY JAMES JENNINGS,

HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE METROPOLITAN LITERARY INSTITUTION, LONDON.

BASED ON THE SECOND EDITION,

THE WHOLE REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED, WITH TWO DISSERTATIONS ON THE ANGLO-SAXON PRONOUNS, AND OTHER PIECES,

BY JAMES KNIGHT JENNINGS, M.A.,

Late Scholar and Librarian, Queens' College, Cambridge; Vicar of
Hagbourn, Berkshire; and Minister of Calcott Donative,
Somersetshire.