151 Rare Old Books on British Dialects Slang Local Speech history regional accents idioms sayings proverbs poetry - Instant PDF Download

THE LOCAL LANGUAGE OF THE BRITISH ISLES

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 151 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of the LOCAL DIALECTS & LANGUAGE FOUND IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

This is a huge collection of rare literature providing a unique insight into local dialects, phrases, words, poetry and proverbs and word-lore. From The Shetlands and Orkney in Scotland’s far North to Devon and Cornwall in the South, from the folk-talk of Yorkshire to the rustic slang of the Western counties, discover the history of local language and the unique dialects that helped shape the United Kingdom we know today. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone studying English language or anyone with an interest in local history, language, dialects, tradition and customs. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

Included in this astonishing collection are all 6 Volumes of ‘The English Dialect Dictionary’ - an invaluable masterpiece that was created between the years of 1898 – 1905 by J. Wright and provides "the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or know to have been in use during the last two hundred years".

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A bibliographical list of the works that have been published, or are known to exist in MS., illustrative of the various dialects of English - W. W. Skeat (1877)

A bibliographical list of the works that have been published, towards illustrating the provincial dialects of England - J. R. Smith (1839)

A bibliography of the dialect literature of Cumberland and Westmorland, and Lancashire North-of-the-Sands - A. Sparke (1907)

A contribution to an Essex dialect dictionary - E. Gepp (1920)

A contribution to an Essex dialect dictionary. Supplement - E. Gepp (1920)

A critical inquiry into the Scottish language, with the view of illustrating the rise and progress of civilisations in Scotland - F. X. Michel (1882)

A dialect of Donegal - being the speech of Meenawannia in the parish of Glenties. Phonology and texts - E. C. Quiggin (1906)

A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect, in three parts - M. R. Palmer (1837)

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words, used at the present day in the streets of London - J. C. Hotten (1860)

A dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the Island - W. H. Long (1886)

A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the County of Kent - W. D. Parish (1888)

A dictionary of the Scottish language - J. Jamieson (1846)

A dictionary of the Sussex dialect and collection of provincialisms in use in the county of Sussex - W. D. Parish (1875)

A glossary of dialect & archaic words used in the County of Gloucester - J. D. Robertson (1890)

A glossary of North country words, with their etymology, and affinity to other languages; and occasional notices of local customs and popular superstitions - J. T. Brockett (1846)

A glossary of provincial words and phrases in use in Wiltshire - J. Y. Akerman (1842)

A glossary of provincial words used in Teesdale, in the county of Durham - F. Dinsdale (1849)

A glossary of terms used in the coal trade of Northumberland and Durham - G. C. Greenwell (1888)

A glossary of the Cleveland dialect explanatory, derivative, and critical - J. C. Atkinson (1868)

A glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) dialect - R. W. Huntley (1868)

A glossary of the dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield - A. Easther (1883)

A glossary of the Essex dialect - R. S. Charnock (1880)

A glossary of the Lancashire dialect - J. H. Nodal (1875)

A glossary of the Shetland dialect - J. S. Angus (1914)

A glossary of the words and phrases pertaining to the dialect of Cumberland - W. Dickinson (1899)

A glossary of words and phrases used in S.E. Worcestershire, together with some of the sayings, customs, superstitions, charms, etc. common in that district - J. Salisbury (1893)

A glossary of words pertaining to the dialect of mid-Yorkshire; with others peculiar to lower Nidderdale - C. C. Clough (1876)

A glossary of words used in South-West Lincolnshire, Wapentake of Graffoe - R. E. G. Cole (1886)

A glossary of words used in Swaledale, Yorkshire - J. Harland (1873)

A glossary of words used in the County of Chester - R. Holland (1886)

A glossary of words used in the County of Wiltshire - G. E. Dartnell (1893)

A glossary of words used in the dialect of Cheshire - E. Leigh (1877)

A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a selection of local names, and some notices of folklore, games and customs - S. O. Addy (1888)

A glossary of words used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire - E. Peacock (1889)

A grammar of the dialect of Adlington (Lancashire) - A. Hargreaves (1904)

A grammar of the dialect of Kendal (Westmoreland) descriptive and historical, with specimens and a glossary - T. O. Hirst (1906)

A grammar of the dialect of Lorton (Cumberland) historical and descriptive; with an appendix on the Scandinavial element, dialect specimens and a glossary - B. Brilioth (1913)

A grammar of the dialect of Oldham (Lancashire) - K. G. Schilling (1906)

A grammar of the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire - J. Wright (1892)

A list of words and phrases in every-day use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham - F. Palgrave (1896)

A phonology of the North-Eastern Scotch dialect - H. Mutschmann (1909)

A Study In The Warwickshire Dialect - A. Morgan (1900)

A supplement to the glossary of the dialect of Cumberland - E. W. Prevost (1905)

An attempt at a glossary of some words used in Cheshire. Communicated to the Society of antiquaries - R. Wilbraham (1826)

An essay on the Scoto-English dialect - Z. Collin (1862)

An etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect; with some derivations of names of places in Shetland - T. Edmondston (1866)

Ancient Scottish poems - G. Bannatyne (1770)

Anderson's Cumberland ballads and songs - R. Anderson (1904)

Anecdotes of the English language - chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs - S. Pegge (1814)

Ballads in the Cumberland dialect - R. Anderson (1808)

Catalogue of the English Dialect Library, Manchester. Founded under the auspices of the English Dialect Society (1880)

Chronicle of Scottish poetry ; from the thirteenth century, to the union of the crowns Vols. 1 - J. Sibbald (1802)

Chronicle of Scottish poetry ; from the thirteenth century, to the union of the crowns Vol. 3 - J. Sibbald (1802)

Chronicle of Scottish poetry ; from the thirteenth century, to the union of the crowns Vol. 4 - J. Sibbald (1802)

Cummerland talk - being short tales and rhymes in the dialect of that county - J. Richardson (1876)

Desultory notes on Jamieson's Scottish dictionary - J. B. Fleming-Montgomerie (1899)

Devonshire courtship - in four parts, to which is added a glossary - M. R. Palmer (1869)

Dialect and other poems - B. Preston (1881)

Dialect glossary of over 4,000 words and idioms now in use in the North Riding of Yorkshire - R. Blakeborough (1912)

Dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire a short history of Leeds and other towns - S. Dyer (1891)

Dialect, proverbs and word-lore - G. L. Gomme (1886)

English as we speak it in Ireland - P. W. Joyce (1910)

English dialects from the eighth century to the present day - W. W. Skeat (1911)

Fabellae mostellariae; or, Devonshire and Wiltshire stories in verse, including specimens of the Devonshire dialect - unknown author (1878)

Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases, with examples of their colloquial use, and illus. from various authors to which are added, the customs of the county Vol. 1 - A. E. Baker (1854)

Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases, with examples of their colloquial use, and illus. from various authors to which are added, the customs of the county Vol. 2 - A. E. Baker (1854)

Goodies and other stories in a Yorkshire dialect - W. F. Turner (1912)

Grimes's trip to America - ten letters from Sammywell to John Jones Smith - J. Hartley (1877)

Guernsey, its people and dialect - E. S. Lewis (1895)

Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county - F. T. Havergal (1887)

Horæ momenta cravenæ, or, The Craven dialect, exemplified in two dialogues, between farmer Giles and his neighbour Bridget. To which is annexed a copious glossary - W. Carr (1824)

Inflection of the English present plural indicative. With special reference to the Northern dialect - J. D. Rodeffer (1903)

Irish poems - A. Stringer (1911)

Isle of Wight words - W. W. Skeat (1881)

Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language - J. Jamieson (1867)

Lakeland words - a collection of dialect words and phrases as used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with illustrative sentences in the North Westmorland dialect - B. Kirkby (1898)

Landnama book of Iceland as it illustrates the dialect, place names, folk lore, & antiquities of Cumberland, Westmorland,and North Lancashire - T. Ellwood (1894)

Legends, tales, and songs, in the dialect of the peasantry of Gloucestershire - unknown author (1889)

Leicestershire words, phrases, and proverbs - A. B. Evans (1881)

Musings among the heather, being poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect - D. Thomson (1881)

Nine specimens of English dialects - W. W. Skeat (1896)

Northumberland words. A glossary of words used in the County of Northumberland and on the Tyneside - R. O. Heslop (1892)

Observations on some of the dialects in the west of England, particularly Somersetshire with a glossary of words now in use there; and poems and other pieces, exemplifying the dialect - J. Jennings (1825)

On the south Lancashire dialect - T. Heywood (1861)

Original tales and ballads in the Yorkshire dialect, known also as Inglis, the language of the Angles, and the Northumbrian dialect - J. Malham-Dembleby (1912)

Pidgin-English sing-song; or, Songs and stories in the China-English dialect - C. G. Leland (1897)

Poems and songs - A. Wanless (1872)

Poems and songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - R. Tannahill (1815)

Poems in the Dorset dialect - W. Barnes (1864)

Poems in the North Yorkshire dialect - J. Castillo (1878)

Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect - W. Barnes (1888)

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - D. Anderson (1826)

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - R. Burns (1867-1869)

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - W. Tarras (1804)

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, both humourous and entertaining - T. Donaldson (1809)

Randigal rhymes, and a glossary of Cornish words - J. Thomas (1895)

Reprinted glossaries Vol. 2 - W. W. Skeat (1873)

Reprinted glossaries Vol. 3 - W. W. Skeat (1873)

Rustic speech and folk-lore - E. M. Wright (1914)

S. Editha sive Chronicon vilodunense, im Wiltshire Dialekt, aus MS. Cotton, Faustina B III. Hrsg. von C. Horstmann (1883)

Salopia Antiqua; or, An enquiry from personal survey into druidical military and other early remains in Shropshire and the North Welsh Borders - C. H. Hartshorne (1841)

Seets i' Blackpool, Fleetwood, Lytham, and Southport - J. Hartley (1876)

Seets i' Lundun - a Yorkshireman's ten days' trip - J. Hartley (1876)

Seets i' Paris - Sammywell Grimes's trip with his old chum Billy Baccus, his opinion o' th' French, and th' French opinion o' th' exhibition he made ov hissen - J. Hartley (1878)

Seets i' Yorkshire and Lancashire - Grimes' comical trip from Leeds to Liverpool by canal - J. Hartley (1876)

Songs of Angus - V. Jacob (1915)

Songs of the Ridings - F. W. Moorman (1918)

Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - A. Boswell (1803)

Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect - W. Sandys (1846)

Specimens of Middle Scots - G. G. Smith (1902)

Specimens of the Westmorland dialect; consisting of T' reysh bearin, and Jonny Shippard's journa to Lunnan - T. Clarke (1865)

Specimens of the Yorkshire dialect, in various dialogues, tales, and songs - unknown author (1898)

Tales and rhymes in the Lindsey folk-speech - M. Peacock (1886)

The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall, with an enlarged glossary of Cornish provincial words - F. Jago (1882)

The Celtic element in the dialectic words of the counties of Northampton & Leicester - J. Davies (1885)

The dialect and folk-lore of Northamptonshire - T. Sternberg (1851)

The dialect and place names of Shetland; two popular lectures - J. Jakobsen (1897)

The dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the county of York Vol. 1 - W. Carr (1828)

The dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the county of York Vol. 2 - W. Carr (1828)

The dialect of Cumberland - R. Ferguson (1873)

The dialect of Hackness (north-east Yorkshire) with original specimens, and a word-list - G. H. Cowling (1915)

The dialect of Robert Burns as spoken in central Ayrshire - J. Wilson (1923)

The dialect of South Lancashire - T. Bobbin (1854)

The dialect of the English gypsies - B. C. Smart (1875)

The dialect of the New Forest in Hampshire (as spoken in the village of Burley) - J. Wilson (1913)

The dialect of the west of England - J. Jennings (1869)

The dialect of West Somerset - F. T. Elworthy (1875)

The English dialect dictionary Vol. 1 - J. Wright (1898 - 1905)

The English dialect dictionary Vol. 2 - J. Wright (1898 - 1905)

The English dialect dictionary Vol. 3 - J. Wright (1898 - 1905)

The English dialect dictionary Vol. 4 - J. Wright (1898 - 1905)

The English dialect dictionary Vol. 5 - J. Wright (1898 - 1905)

The English dialect dictionary Vol. 6 - J. Wright (1898 - 1905)

The fifth series of Wiltshire rhymes and tales in the Wiltshire dialect - E. Slow (1894)

The folk speech of East Yorkshire - J. Nicholson (1899)

The folk-speech of South Cheshire - T. Darlington (1887)

The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton Leake and Wrangle - P. Thompson (1856)

The peasant speech of Devon. With other matters connected therewith - S. Hewett (1892)

The poetry and humor of the Scottish language - C. Mackay (1882)

The races of Lancashire, as indicated by the local names and the dialect of the county - J. Davies (1856)

The Sheffield dialect - A. Bywater (1839)

The slang dictionary; etymological, historical and anecdotal - J. C. Hotten (1913)

The slang dictionary; or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and fast expressions of high and low society - J. C. Hotten (1865)

The Song of Solomon in the Lancashire dialect, as spoken at Bolton. From the authorized English version - J. T. Staton (1859)

The vocabulary of East Anglia Vol. 1 - R. Forby (1830)

The West Somerset word-book - a glossary of dialectal and archaic words and phrases used in the west of Somerset and East Devon - F. T. Elworthy (1886)

Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect and poems - T. Bobbin (1828)

Venus And Adonis A Study In Warwickshire Dialect - A. Morgan (1885)

Yorkshire dialect poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems - F. W. Moorman (1917)

Yorkshire folk-talk - with characteristics of those who speak it in the North and East ridings - M. Morris (1911)

Yorkshire lyrics - J. Hartley (1898)



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