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Title: English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

Author: Walter W. Skeat

Release Date: May 3, 2005 [EBook #15755]

Language: English

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ENGLISH DIALECTS

From the Eighth Century
to the Present Day

by the

REV. WALTER W. SKEAT,
Litt.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D.,
F.B.A. Elrington and Bosworth
Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fel-
low of Christ's College. Founder
and formerly Director of the
English Dialect Society

"English in the native garb;"
_K. Henry V._ V. 1. 80