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• Aberdeen dialect, 112, 113
• Adam's body, materials of, 21, 22
• Alfred, King, 47, 48
• Allen, Grant, Anglo-Saxon Britain, 85
• Alliterative Poems, ed. Morris, 80
• Altenglische Dichtungen, 52
• Ambry, aumbry, 97
• Ancren Riwle, 49
• Anglian period, 14
• Anglo-French words in dialects, 94-96
• Anglo-Saxon, 10, 11, 12
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 12, 48
  • Laud MS., 73
• Arain, arles, arris, asew, assith, 97
• Assoilyie, astre, aunsel, aunter, aver, averous, 97, 98
• Atkinson's (Cleveland) Glossary, 44
• Awfully, 4
• Ayenbite of Inwyt, 59, 60
• Ayrshire dialect, 113, 114
• Baker, Miss, 5
• Barnes, William, 55, 111
Beda, 15
• his "death-song," 15
• his History, 14, 15, 17, 56
• Beowulf, 7-9
• Bewcastle column, 20
• Bladud, King, 50, 51
• Blood-boltered, 5
• Bolter, 5, 6
• Boucher, Rev. J., Dialect Dictionary, 101, 102
• Boy or child, 5
• Brockett's Glossary, 44
• Bruce, by Barbour, 29-34
• Brut, romance of, 49, 50, 51
• Burns, Robert, 45, 113
Cædmon, 15, 16
• his hymn, 17
• Caxton, 40
Celtic words in dialects, 83-86
• list of, 85, 86
Charters, Kentish, 56, 57
• Mercian, 70
Chaucer, use of Kentish by, 63
• use of yon, 7
• use of asp, 68
• Cheshire dialect, 122, 123
• Child (girl), 5, 6
• Cole, King, 51
• Corpus Glossary, 67
• Cursor Mundi, 27, 28, 35
• Cymbeline, 50
• Dialect defined, 1
• Dialect glossaries, 102-103
• Dialect writers, 111
Dialects, foreign elements in the, 82-98
• four old, 10,11
• groups

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  of, 107
• modern, 106-109
• specimens of, 110, etc.
• Dialectic regeneration, 3
Dictionaries
• by Coles, Kersey, Bailey, Dr Johnson, and Ash, 101
• old, Promptorium and Catholicon, 100
• Douglas, Gawain, 34
Dunbar, 33, 35
• quoted, 45
• Dunstan, St, Life of, 51
• Durham, Liber Vitæ, 20
  • Ritual, 21
• Eagre, 97
• Earle, Prof., 14
• Edinburgh dialect, 115, 116
Eliot
• see George
• Ellis, A.J., Early English Pronunciation, 103
• Erne, 6
• English, the old name for Lowland Scotch, 33-35
• English Dialect Dictionary, 85, 90, 104
• English Dialect Grammar, 104
• English Dialect Society, 103
• English Metrical Homilies, 28
• Essex dialect, 123, 124, 125
• Fitzherbert, J., Boke of Husbandry, 99
• Flittermouse, 4, 5
• Flower and the Leaf, 38
French words in dialects, 93
• list of, 96-98
• Galt, John, 45
• Gauntree, 95
• Gawayne and the Grene Knight, 81
• George Eliot, use of dialect by, 111
• Gloss, meaning of, 23
Glossaries of dialectal words, 102, 103
• Old English, 66, 67
• Golden Targe, by Dunbar, 45
• Gower, use of Kentish by, 62, 63
• Greek words in dialects, 87
• Grose, F., Provincial Glossary, 101
• Hampole, R. Rolle of, 28, 32, 35
• Handlyng Synne, quoted, 78, 79
• Harleian MS. 2253, 52
• Hebrew words in dialects, 88
• Henry III., Proclamation of, 75-78
• Henry the Minstrel, 33, 35
• Higden, Ralph, 53
• Hild, Abbess, 16
• Hoccleve, 38
• Hogg, James, 45
• Homilies in Verse, 28
• Horn, romance of, 50
• Horstmann, Dr, 51
• Hrinde (A.S.), 8, 9
• Inglis, or Inglisch, 33-35
• Isle of Wight dialect, 129, 130
• Jamieson's Dictionary, 43, 44
• Jonson, Ben, 5
• Juliana, St, 49
• Jutes, 56
• Keats, 4
Kentish, 10, 11, 12
• dialect, 56-64
• glosses, 57
• sermons, 58
• Kentish e (A.S. y), 61-64
• King Lear, 50
• Lancashire dialect, 119, 120
• Latin words in dialects, 87
• Layamon's Brut, 49

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• Leyden Riddle, 18
• Liber Vitæ, 20
Lincolnshire dialect, 118, 119
• words, 100, 101
• Locrine, 50
• London dialect, 74-78
• Lorica Prayer, 68, 69
• Lydgate, 38
• Lyndesay, Sir David, 34, 35
• Madam, 'm, 3
• Malory, Sir Thomas, 40
• Manning, Robert, 78, 79
Mercian dialect, 10, 11, 36, 37, 65-81
• glosses, 70-72
• spellings, 71-72
• Michel, Dan, 59, 60
Midland dialect, 65-81
• rise of, 37, 42
• Psalter, 80
• East, 65-79
• West, 79-81
• Minot's Poems, 29
• Moral Ode, 49
• Morris, Dr, Blickling Homilies, 8
  • Old English Miscellany, 49, 58
  • Old English Homilies, 49
  • Specimens of Early English, 58
• Morris, Dr, on dialects, 81
• Morris and Skeat, Specimens, etc., 27-29, 59, 60
• Murray, Dr, on the Dialect of Scotland, 28, 32-5
• Müller, Prof. Max, Lectures, 3
• New English Dictionary, 85
• Norfolk dialect, 125-127
• Northern dialect, great extent of, 32-35
Northumbrian, 10, 11, 12, 14-46
• glosses, 22-24
• riddle, 18
• Nut-brown Maid, 38
• Old English Homilies, 49
• Ormulum, The, 73, 74
• Owl and Nightingale, 49
• Peacock's (Lincolnshire) Glossary, 44
• Pearl, The, 80
• Phonetic decay, 3
• Plays, early, 41
• Plurals, Southern, 61
• Prick of Conscience, 28
• Proverbs of Alfred, 49
Psalter, by Hampole, 32
• Prose Treatises, by the same, 32
Psalter, Northumbrian, 25-27
• West Midland, 80
• Ramsay, Allan, 45
• Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101
Rimy, 8, 9
• rind, 9
• Robert of Gloucester, 50
• Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35
Romances, dialect of, 44
• list of, 38-40
• Ross, Alexander, 45
• Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72
• Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20
Scandinavian words in dialects, 88-93
• list of, 90-93
• Scots, Middle, 44, 45
• Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45
• Scottish and English, 43, 44
• Scottish Laws, early, 32
Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50
• use of dialect, 100
• Sheffield dialect, 121, 122
Shoreham, Wm. of, 58
• quoted, 59
• Shropshire dialect, 127-128
• Skeat, Chaucer Canon, 73
  • Etymological Dictionary, 84-85

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  • Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, 71
  • Index to Icelandic Dictionary, 89
  • Primer of English Etymology, 84
  • Principles of English Etymology, 70, 87, 89
• Skinner, S., Etymologicon, 100
• Smith, G. Gregory, Specimens of Middle Scots, 44, 45
• South English Legendary, 51
• Southern dialect, 47-55
• Southey, R., his use of dialect, 111
• Specimens of Early English
  • Part I., 49, 50
  • Part II., 51, 79.
  • See Morris
• Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, 99
• Stephens, Prof., 18
• Sussex dialect, 130-132
Sweet, Dr, 15
• Anglo-Saxon Primer, 48
• Anglo-Saxon Reader, 18
• Anglo-Saxon Reader, Dialectal, 56-57
• Oldest English Texts, 10, 15, 19, 66
• Gregory's Pastoral Care, 7
• Tannahill, Robert, 45
• Tennyson, 4, 111
• Testament of Love, 53, 54
• Trevisa, John, 53, 55
• Tusser, T., Pointes of Husbandrie, 99
• Twenty, 3
• Usk, Thomas, 53, 54
• Vernon MS., 52
• Vespasian Psalter, 69, 70
Wessex
• see Anglo-Saxon
• Westmoreland dialect, 117, 118
• William of Palerne, 80
• Wiltshire dialect, 128-129
• Wise, J.R., 5
• Wright, Dr J., English Dialect Dictionary, 9, 85, 90, 104
• Wright, T., Political Songs, 29
• Wyntoun, 29, 33
• Yon, 6, 7