Two collections of Derbicisms containing words and phrases in a great measure peculiar to the natives and inhabitants of the county of Derby
By: by Samuel Pegge ... Edited, with two introductions, by the Rev. Professor Skeat ... and Thomas Hallam.
Contributors: Skeat, Walter W. 1835-1912 ed.; Hallam, Thomas.
Series: English dialect society. [Publications]; no. 78
Publisher: Pub. for the English dialect society by H. Frowde, Oxford university press
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- England -- Derbyshire -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Derbyshire (England) -- Languages -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Dictionaries.
Other titles: Derbicisms.
Notes: "Books referred to": p. xx-xxii.
Forms with W. W. Skeat's Nine specimens of English dialects [Publications. no. 76] vol. XXXII of the society's Publications.
Edited from a manuscript (ca. 1751-91) in possession of Skeat.
"Introduction: part II" by Thomas Hallam, includes a sketch of "Whittington and district", a "Memoir of the Rev. Dr. Pegge" by his son Samuel, and an "Account of his writings" p. li-lvi)