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INDEX

Aberdeen dialect, 112, 113
Adam's body, materials of, 21, 22
Alfred, King, 47, 48
Allen, Grant, _Anglo-Saxon Britain_, 85
_Alliterative Poems_, ed. Morris, 80
_Altenglische Dichtungen_, 52
Ambry, aumbry, 97
_Ancren Riwle_, 49
Anglian period, 14
Anglo-French words in dialects, 94-96
Anglo-Saxon, 10, 11, 12
_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, 12, 48
Laud MS., 73
Arain, arles, arris, asew, assith, 97
Assoilyie, astre, aunsel, aunter, aver, averous, 97, 98
Atkinson's (Cleveland) Glossary, 44
Awfully, 4
_Ayenbite of Inwyt_, 59, 60
Ayrshire dialect, 113, 114

Baker, Miss, 5
Barnes, William, 55, 111
Beda, 15
his "death-song," 15
his _History_, 14, 15, 17, 56
Beowulf, 7-9
Bewcastle column, 20
Bladud, King, 50, 51
Blood-boltered, 5
Bolter, 5, 6
Boucher, Rev. J., Dialect Dictionary, 101, 102
Boy or child, 5
Brockett's Glossary, 44
_Bruce_, by Barbour, 29-34
Brut, romance of, 49, 50, 51
Burns, Robert, 45, 113

C{ae}dmon, 15, 16
his hymn, 17
Caxton, 40
Celtic words in dialects, 83-86
list of, 85, 86
Charters, Kentish, 56, 57
Mercian, 70
Chaucer, use of Kentish by, 63
use of _yon_, 7
use of _asp_, 68
Cheshire dialect, 122, 123
Child (girl), 5, 6
Cole, King, 51
Corpus Glossary, 67
_Cursor Mundi_, 27, 28, 35
_Cymbeline_, 50

Dialect defined, 1
Dialect glossaries, 102-103
Dialect writers, 111
Dialects, foreign elements in the, 82-98
four old, 10,11
groups of, 107
modern, 106-109
specimens of, 110, etc.
Dialectic regeneration, 3
Dictionaries
by Coles, Kersey, Bailey, Dr Johnson, and Ash, 101
old, Promptorium and Catholicon, 100
Douglas, Gawain, 34
Dunbar, 33, 35
quoted, 45
Dunstan, St, Life of, 51
Durham, _Liber Vit{ae}_, 20
Ritual, 21

Eagre, 97
Earle, Prof