English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day ::

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136

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

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

his hymn, 17

Caxton, 40

list of, 85, 86

Mercian, 70

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

four old, 10,11
groups
137

of, 107
modern, 106-109
specimens of, 110, etc.

Dialectic regeneration, 3

by Coles, Kersey, Bailey, Dr Johnson, and Ash, 101
old, Promptorium and Catholicon, 100

Douglas, Gawain, 34

quoted, 45

Dunstan, St, Life of, 51
Durham, Liber Vitæ, 20
- Ritual, 21
Eagre, 97
Earle, Prof., 14
Edinburgh dialect, 115, 116

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

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

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

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

138

Leyden Riddle, 18
Liber Vitæ, 20

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

glosses, 70-72
spellings, 71-72

Michel, Dan, 59, 60

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

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

Prose Treatises, by the same, 32

West Midland, 80

Ramsay, Allan, 45
Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101

rind, 9

Robert of Gloucester, 50
Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35

list of, 38-40

Ross, Alexander, 45
Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72
Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20

list of, 90-93

Scots, Middle, 44, 45
Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45
Scottish and English, 43, 44
Scottish Laws, early, 32

use of dialect, 100

Sheffield dialect, 121, 122

quoted, 59

Shropshire dialect, 127-128
Skeat, Chaucer Canon, 73
- Etymological Dictionary, 84-85
- 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

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

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

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