There came out in print some time ago a statement wonderful to me, that it had been found that the poor landfolk of one of our shires had only about two hundred words in their vocabulary, with a hint that Dorset rustics were not likely to be more fully worded. There can be shown to any writer two hundred thing-names, known to every man and woman of our own village, for things of the body and dress of a labourer, without any mark-words, or time-words, or others, and without leaving the man for his house, or garden, or the field, or his work.
CLUE TO MATTERS HANDLED.
Absolute case, [32], [47]
Accent, [3]
Adjective, [10], [12]
Adverbs, [26], [48]
Aorist (time), [28]
Article, [6], [10]
Attraction, [52]
Be-, [52]
Big things, [6]
Breathings, [1], [44]
— free, [1]
— hard, [2], [44]
Breath-pennings, [1], [2]
Can, [27]
Case, [30]
— absolute, [32]
— words, [31]
Colon, [73]
Comma, [73]
Conjugation, [26]
Conjunction, [35]
Defective (time-words), [55]
-dom, [57], [58]
-ed, [19], [83]
-el, -l, [18]
-en, [16], [45], [59], [84]
-ening, [59]
-er, [59], [84]
-et, [84]
Expansion, [60]
For-, [60]
Fore-, [61]
Goodness of a speech, [86]
Hinge and hank time-takings, [35]
-hood, [62]
Imperative mood, [31], [63]
Impersonal time-words, [63]
Inceptive time-words, [64]
Indicative mood, [30]
Infinitive mood, [16], [64]
-ing, [17], [84]
-ism, [65]
Iterative time-words, [29], [66]
Kindred, [5]
Link words, [35]
-m, -om, -um, [66], [67], [84]
Mark-words (thing), [4]
Mark time-words, [45]
May, [27]
Mis-, [16]
Miswording, [10]
Mood, [30]
Must, [27]
Nominative case, [31]
-ock, [16], [83]
-om, -um, -m, [66], [67], [84]
-op, -p, [70], [83]
Optative mood, [31], [70]
Paraphrase, [71]
Participles (Latin), [40]
Period, [72]
Person, [11], [26], [27]
Personal time-word, [73]
Pitches, [73]
Potential, [31]
Preposition (case-word), [31]
Proposition, [35]
Qualities, [12]
-r, -er, [16], [59]
Seem, [41], [78]
Sex, [5]
-sh, [77]
Shall, [77]
-ship, [77]
Small things, [5]
-some, [78]
Sound-softness, [38], [88]
Speech, goodness of, [86]
— strain, [3]
— trimming, [36], [80]
— wording, [35], [40-44]
Stops, [72]
Suchness, [12]
— pitches of, [13]
Syntax, [35], [80]
Tale, [6], [10], [28]
Thing mark-words, [4]
— names, [4]
— sundrinesses, [4]
Thought-wording, [35]
Time, [28]
Time-giving, [15]
Time-taking, [14], [25]
— historic, [18], [30]
— long, [27]
— short, single, and stringly, [29]
— transitive, [15]
Time-words, [19]
— strong, [20]
— weak, [19], [20], [26]
Twin, [39]
Under sundrinesses of time-takings, [25]
Word-endings, powers of, [83]
Wordiness, [44]
Word-sameness, [38]
Word-strain, [3]
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