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Wright, Elizabeth Mary

 
9781330077429: Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Discover how rural speech names everyday creatures and objects in playful, telling ways you’ll remember.

This edition collects folk names and curious phrases from rural life, revealing how people in different regions labeled animals, plants, and common objects. It offers a window into dialect, humor, and shared cultural lore that shaped daily life in old villages.

The book blends lively examples with notes on regional variation, making it easy to enjoy and reference in conversation or study.

  • Vivid nicknames for animals, such as the magpie known as Magot and the hare called Wat in some regions.
  • Colorful plant and flower names that recall local customs and games from childhood.
  • Quirky phrases and sayings that show how people described everyday scenes and objects.
  • Notes on how dialects differ by place, helping readers understand regional humor and history.

Ideal for readers of folk language, regional customs, and linguistic humor seeking to explore rustic speech in a readable, approachable format.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Content CHAPTER VARCHAIC LITERARY WORDS IN THE DIALECTS PACKS Old words from early literature surviving in the dialects .36-37 Substantives 37-43 Adjectives 43-46 Verbs ... 47-53 Archaic words from the Authorized Version of theB ible .53-54 Archaic words from Shakespeare .. 54-61 Dialect words in Johnson sD ictionary .. .61-67 Dialect words supply meanings to difficult forms in Old and Middle English literature .. .... 67-71 Old words and forms preserved in surnames .. v; 72-76 CHAPTER VI ARCHAIC MEANINGS AND FORMS IN THE DIALECTS Old meanings of standard English words surviving in the dialects .. 77-84 Historical forms surviving in the dialects .... 84-86 Old grammatical distinctions preserved in the dialects .. 87-89 Regular forms in the dialects compared with irregularities in standard English .90-91 Doublets, such as :challenge beside the dialect form callenge, c. .. .; .92-94 Variants due to Scandinavian borrowings .. .. 94-95 CHAPTER VII FOREIGN LOAN-WORDS French loan-words. .. .. .- .. .96-102 Scandinavian loan-words .103-104 Celtic loan-words .. .105-106 Latin, and Dutch loan-words. .. .. .107-108 Poetical and learned words in the dialects .... 108-109 CHAPTER VIII LITERARY WORDS WITH DIALECT MEANINGS Quotations illustrating the meanings given in the dialects to literary words 110-118 Dialect words alike in form to existing literary words, but differentia meaning and origin, e.g. damsel, a dauisou, c.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enha

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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