English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

by Walter W. Skeat

{Transcriber’s Note:
All square brackets [ ] are from the original text. Braces { } (“curly brackets”) are supplied by the transcriber.
This e-text uses characters only available in UTF-8 encoding, including the non-Roman letters
ð þ (eth, thorn)
ȝ (yogh)
These diacritics should also appear:
ē ǣ ȳ (macron)
ĕ ŏ ĭ (breve)

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	ENGLISH DIALECTS FROM THE EIGHTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY BY THE REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, Litt.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D., F.B.A. Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fel- low of Christ’s College. Founder and formerly Director of the English Dialect Society “English in the native garb;”   K. Henry V. v. 1. 80 Cambridge at the University Press 1912

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1968

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With the exception of the coat of arms
at the foot, the design on the title page
is a reproduction of one used by the earliest
known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521
First Edition 1911.
Reprinted 1912.

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