Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Somersetshire

Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Somersetshire

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Author: Williams, Wadham Pigott,1822?-
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Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Somersetshire

Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Somersetshire

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Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Somersetshire

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Author: Williams, Wadham Pigott,1822?-
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Language: English

A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire

The following paper from the pen of Dr. Prior was read at a Conversazione of the Society at Taunton, in the winter of 1871, and as it treats the subject from a more general point of view than is usually taken of it, we print it with his permission as an introduction to our vocabulary: The two gentlemen who have undertaken to compile a glossary of the Somerset dialect, the Rev. W. P. Williams and Mr. W. A. Jones, have done me the honour to lend me the manuscript of their work; and the following remarks which have occurred to me upon the perusal of it I venture to lay before the Society, with the hope that they may be suggestive of further enquiry. Some years ago, while on a visit at Mr. Capels, at Bulland Lodge, near Wiveliscombe, I was struck with the noble countenance of an old man who was working upon the road. Mr. Capel told me that it was not unusual to find among the people of those hills a very refined cast of features and extremely beautiful children, and expressed a belief that they were the descendants of the ancient inhabitants of the country, who had been dispossessed of their land in more fertile districts by conquerors of coarser breed. A study of the two dialects spoken in the county (for two there certainly are) tend, I think, to corroborate the truth of this opinion. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 25212
Author: Williams, Wadham Pigott
Release Date: Apr 28, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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