id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15755 Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day .txt text/plain 33551 2552 81 form, the history of our English dialects, from the eighth century years of the thirteenth century, when the East Midland dialect English, of the word _dialect_ was simply "a manner of speaking" dialect-speaker frequently uses words or modes of expression which he In fact, the _English Dialect Dictionary_ cites the phrase "is it a dialects of Scotland, Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, the word But specimens of the oldest forms of the Northern and Midland dialects Though the Kentish dialect properly belongs to Southern English, _-feald_, _gealla_, _healf_, _healt_, _nearu_, _eald_, _seald_, With regard to dialectal Scandinavian, see the List of English Words, words of Scandinavian origin that are known to our dialects. various uses and localities, see the _English Dialect Dictionary_; and date (1674) many dialect words appeared in English Dictionaries, such Dictionaries containing dialect words. Anglo-French words in dialects, 94-96 Latin words in dialects, 87 ./cache/15755.txt ./txt/15755.txt