Nine specimens of English dialects
By: edited from various sources by the Rev. Walter Skeat.
Series: English dialect society.  [Publications]; no. 76
Publisher: Pub. for the English dialect society by H. Frowde, Oxford university press
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain.; English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Great Britain -- Languages -- Dictionaries.
Notes: Forms with Samuel Pegge's Two collections of Derbicisms [Publications. no. 78] vol.XXXII of the society's Publications.  Each specimen followed by glossary.
Table of contents: title: I. The York minster screen, by George Newton Brown; in the dialect of the North Riding of Yorkshire; 1833.; title: II. Jim an' Nell, by William Frederick Rock; a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon; 1867.; title: III. John Noakes and Mary Styles, by Charles Clark; in the dialect of Essex; 1839.; title: IV. A Yorkshire dialogue in Yorkshire dialect; from an old broadside: 1673.; title: V. A Norfolk dialogue, by the Rev. Joshua Larwood; in the dialect of central Norfolk; 1800.; title: VI. A Lonsdale dialogue, by William Seward; in the dialect of Burton-in-Lonsdale; 1801.; title: VII. A day in the Haaf, by Samuel Hibbert; in the dialect of Shetland; 1882.; title: VIII. A wooing song of a yeoman of Kents sonne: from ʻMelismataʼ, by T. Ravenscroft; 1611.; title: IX. A Yorkshire dialogue in its pure natural dialect, by George Meriton; 1684.  A collection of proverbs, by Francis Brokesby.