| 1 | Author: | Skeat, Walter W. | Requires cookie* |
| Title: | English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day  | ||
| Published: | 2001 | ||
| Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | ||
| Description: | According to the New English Dictionary, the oldest sense, in English, of the word dialect was simply "a manner of speaking" or "phraseology," in accordance with its derivation from the Greek dialectos, a discourse or way of speaking; from the verb dialegesthai, to discourse or converse. | ||
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