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A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary Classic Reprint
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Author : Edward Gepp
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-06
A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary Classic Reprint written by Edward Gepp and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Excerpt from A Contribution to an Essex Dialect Dictionary When we were children, we were not allowed to say afeared, or drownded, or to call a fork a prong, or a person a party. Such words were vulgar, so our parents and teachers told us. We' rendered our instructors the obedience that Vic torian times very properly exacted; but we now see that they did not know what they were talking about. Read the records of these and other such-like words in this little treatise, and see that they are high-class literary words, and that, if we are wickeder than our forefathers, we are to this extent wiser. My attempt is to set down, as far as I am able, the dialect and colloquial speech of our little district. It is not claimed that anything here is peculiar to the district. Very few words are peculiar even to the county. Many are common to us and East Anglia. Many are, more or less in general use all over the country. Yet it is most remarkable what shades of difference occur, in pronunciation at least, even in ad joining parishes. For instance, shan't appears here as shakt, there as shait, shet, shay, and so on, all in a small district. Where one of these forms is established, the others do not, or seldom, appear. And the vocabulary, generally, varies like wise. 'words used commonly in one parish may be unknown, or seldom used, in the next parish, but turn up again a little further afield. There is no reckoning with dialect in the occurrence of its words. Elusive and sporadic, they are just like plants, which will have their particular soil; and who can say exactly in each case what that particular soil is? And so, no doubt, all over the county. It is a fact to bear in mind. In some of my friends who - a precious few - observe and appreciate our dialect, I notice the cramping idea that the speech of their own parish is the only true Essex dialect. Even of the supreme example, the talk of Father William and his associates, I have heard it said, Oh, I don't call that Essex dialect. Our people don't talk like that. Essex dialect is, of course, the combination of all these local varying tongues and when the Essex Dialect Dictionary appears, we shall at last have it in all its fullness and glory before our eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Essex Dialect Dictionary
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Author : Edward Gepp
language : en
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Release Date : 1969
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A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary Supplement
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Author : Gepp Edward
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
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A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary
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Release Date : 1923
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A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary Supplement Classic Reprint
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Author : Edward Gepp
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-06-30
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Excerpt from A Contribution to an Essex Dialect Dictionary Supplement Fall of the leaf (autumn), is now rare in literature, a dialect phrase. Fettle is a dialect or colloquial word. King-cup is a general literary word for certain kinds of ranunculus; we use it only for marsh-marigold. Mercury with us is Good King Henry only; in literature it is also used for Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) and other plants. Sere, dry, generally, in literature, we use only for wood and vegetation. Spinney I cannot defend; it shall go. Yet Dr. Joseph Wright admits it to The Dialect Dictionary. I shall be glad to hear of any other words whose right can be challenged, and will apply the supreme test, as is done above, of the Oxford Dictionary. Regret is expressed by one or two critics that a phonetic system is lacking. That is due partly to my incompetence - for I am ignorant of phonetics, and perhaps incapable of acquiring a working knowledge of them - but were I ever so skilled, I would have avoided strict scientific treatment, because it would have been incomprehensible to people for whom the book was designed, the general reader. Take the Dialect Dictionary, and see what a complete system of sound analysis would mean. What would the' man in the street' make of ewe for away, ater (after), bali (barley), bvil (boil), bwei (boy) - to say nothing of a squad of other strange symbols which cannot be presented here because they require special type? I have therefore adopted the method of The Concise Oxford Dictionary designed for the general reader, wherein explanatory spellings, when they are needed, are such as fahdher (father), kawf (cough), duv (dove), sahm (psalm), westcul (waistcoat), britshiz (breeches), and so on. Thus, with submission, but with some shadow of justification, to my kindly critics, whose comments I value highly, and find most helpful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary And Supplement
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Author : Edward Gepp
language : en
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Release Date : 1920
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Author : Edward Gepp
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Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-07
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A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary
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Author : Edward Gepp
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-26
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Excerpt from A Contribution to an Essex Dialect Dictionary When a Dialect Dictionary is constructed for a county or a district, the usual plan, I believe, is for a general editor to gather contributions from correspondents representing all parts of the area, and to compile what he gets. Here is one modest contribution for Essex, in advance, representing in a measure the dialect and colloquial speech of a small district. It is the outcome of seventeen years' observation in three contiguous parishes, High Easter, Felsted, and Little Dun-mow, with slight additions from other neighbouring parishes. So far as it goes, the attempt may claim to represent Essex speech proper, the mid-county dialect, which is less tainted with alien forms than the speech of the northern, southern, and western parts, where East Anglian, Kent and London, and Midland dialects intrude. Moreover, my chief gathering ground is a region singularly remote from railways and main roads. For instance, in the parish of High Easter, with nineteen miles of road, there is not a bit of main road. The village is five miles from the nearest railway, and that an insignificant branch line. Railways and main road traffic, beyond a doubt, have made deadly havoc of the vernacular. It is high time that some qualified person took our Essex dialect in hand, seriously and completely; for no dabbling is of any use. The old speech, though it holds on tenaciously enough in corners, is generally shrinking under the influence of the Elementary School and of free intercommunication. It is deplorable that Essex should lack a dialect dictionary. Almost all the other counties appear to have been adequately dealt with. Essex sits forlorn. The two or three glossaries or vocabularies which have appeared from time to time are but scrappy things. Dialect is included in the scheme of the Victoria History of the Counties of England, but the Essex issue stopped some fifteen years ago, and hope of its completion is almost dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary
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Author : Edward Gepp
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Release Date : 1922
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A Contribution To An Essex Dialect Dictionary
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Author : Edward Gepp
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Release Date : 1920
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