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Walter W. Skeat.
English Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day.
Cambridge U.P., 1911.
The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series.
[No ISBN].
Hardback, stitch bound; no dustjacket.
122x166x13mm.
ix,139pp plus foldout sheet (monochrome reproduction of Henry III's proclamation in English of 1258).
English.
Overall good condition: no dustjacket; spine somewhat faded, free endpapers browned, page tops a little grubby.This item £8.00
[Echo Library paperback in print at £8.90]
169g.
Contents: Dialects & their value; Dialects in early times; Dialects of Northumbria till AD 1300; Dialects of Northumbria 1300-1400; Northumbrian in the 15th-c.; Southern dialect; Southern dialect of Kent; Mercian dialect; Foreign elements; Later history; Modern dialects; A few specimens.
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