In the original, citations for quoted poetry were printed on the last line of the quotation if there was room, with a long dash between the poem and the citation. If there was not room, the citation was printed on the following line. Here all such citations are shown on the line following the quotation, with no long dash.
This book contains inconsistent hyphenations which have been left as printed. A few minor changes to punctuation have been made without comment, and the case of roman numerals in references has been made consistent.
Other changes that have been made are:
[Page 36]: “ s” has been changed to “is” in “it is a Norse word”.
[Page 244]: “tall” has been changed to “tail” in “To safeguard a child from the infection of measles, place it on the back of a donkey, facing the animal’s tail ...”.
The page headings from the original book are shown in sidenotes, normally at the start of the paragraph in which they occur. The use of quotation marks in these page headings does not appear to be consistent, however they have not been changed. In some cases the left-hand page heading represents a division of a chapter (e.g. “Accidence”), and the right-hand page heading a sub-division (e.g. “Pronouns”), these have been combined with a colon, (e.g. “Accidence: Pronouns”). In some very long paragraphs, only the first page heading is shown as a sidenote. The omitted page headings are:
| PAGE | |
| A Yorkshire Inn | [4] |
| The Parson’s Pig | [12] |
| Dialect in the Witness-box | [24] |
| Dialect in the Sunday School | [25] |
| Corruptions due to Sound Change | [34] |
| Johnson’s Treatment of Dialect | [64] |
| Johnson’s Treatment of Scots Words | [66] |
| ‘Low Words | [67] |
| False, Flippant, Idle | [112] |
| Jolly, Kind, Maxim, Odd | [113] |
| Old Customs | [187] |
| Oak-Apple Day | [188] |
| Robin Hood | [189] |
| Cornish Traditions as to the Jews | [200] |
| Names of Birds assigned to the Devil | [204] |
| Superstitions concerning Evil Influence of Animals, Birds, and Insects | [218] |
| Popular Sayings and Beliefs as to Good and ill-luck | [220] |
| Lucky and Unlucky Actions | [222] |
| How to ensure Good Luck | [225] |
| Story of St. Catherine of Ledbury | [229] |
| Violent Remedies | [236] |
| Remedies for Boils, Burns, and Colds | [241] |
| Cures for Cramp | [242] |
| Dropsy and Sore Eyes | [243] |
| Fits, Hiccups, Nettle-sting | [244] |
| Quinsy, Rheumatism, Rickets | [245] |
| Sciatica, Shingles, Sores | [246] |
| Bad Legs, Skin-wounds, Styes | [247] |
| Thrush, Teething | [248] |
| Safeguards against Toothache | [249] |
| Old Beliefs about Warts | [250] |
| Types of Wart-cure | [251] |
| Cures for Wens | [252] |
| Remedies for Whooping-cough | [253] |
| How to ascertain if one will marry | [263] |
| The Farmer and the Weather | [318] |