An Exmoor Scolding: In the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, Between Two Sisters, Wilmot Moreman and Thomasin Moreman, as They Were Spinning. Also, An Exmoor CourtshipJ.R. Smith, 1839 - 57 páginas |
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... Dialogues , though well received and esteemed by those who had some acquaintance with the provincial dialects in the western parts of England , yet for want of such a Glossary as is now added , were in a great measure unintelligible to ...
... Dialogues , though well received and esteemed by those who had some acquaintance with the provincial dialects in the western parts of England , yet for want of such a Glossary as is now added , were in a great measure unintelligible to ...
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... dialogues have not been exempt from somewhat of the like censure ; it having been alleged , that in the Exmoor Scold- ing particularly , the substantives have frequently too many adjectives annexed to them , nearly sy- nonymous ; and ...
... dialogues have not been exempt from somewhat of the like censure ; it having been alleged , that in the Exmoor Scold- ing particularly , the substantives have frequently too many adjectives annexed to them , nearly sy- nonymous ; and ...
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... dialogues , that most of the remarkable words therein inserted , are of Saxon derivation , and if they are not all ... Dialogue therein , which was published in 1746 . " M. Odds fish ! boh that wur breve - I wou'd I'd bin eh yore kele ...
... dialogues , that most of the remarkable words therein inserted , are of Saxon derivation , and if they are not all ... Dialogue therein , which was published in 1746 . " M. Odds fish ! boh that wur breve - I wou'd I'd bin eh yore kele ...
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... DIALOGUES . Note . - The English Saxon words occasionally referred to iu this Vocabulary , and in the foregoing notes , are , for want of proper types , printed in the old English character ; preserving the proper powers of the letters ...
... DIALOGUES . Note . - The English Saxon words occasionally referred to iu this Vocabulary , and in the foregoing notes , are , for want of proper types , printed in the old English character ; preserving the proper powers of the letters ...
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... dialogues , seems evident : at least that it can have no reference or allusion to a swashbuckler or hector- ing soldier , but to some mean office of a woman servant in the country . T. To Tack , ( from Attaquer , Fr. to attack ) , means ...
... dialogues , seems evident : at least that it can have no reference or allusion to a swashbuckler or hector- ing soldier , but to some mean office of a woman servant in the country . T. To Tack , ( from Attaquer , Fr. to attack ) , means ...
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