A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire

A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire, by Wadham Pigott Williams
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Title: A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire
Author: Wadham Pigott Williams
Release Date: April 28, 2008 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1873 Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
A
GLOSSARY
OF
PROVINCIAL WORDS & PHRASES
IN USE IN
SOMERSETSHIRE.
BY
WADHAM PIGOTT WILLIAMS, M.A., VICAR OF BISHOP’S HULL ,
AND THE LATE
WILLIAM ARTHUR JONES, M.A., F.G.S.
WITH
AN INTRODUCTION BY R. C. A. PRIOR, M.D.
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, & DYER. TAUNTON: F. MAY, HIGH STREET. 1873.
PREFACE
It is now nearly six years ago that the Committee of the Somersetshire Archæological Society asked me to compile a Glossary of the Dialect or archaic language of the County, and put into my hands a valuable collection of words by the late Mr. Edward Norris, surgeon, of South ...