INDEX

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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

Cædmon, 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 Vitæ, 20 Ritual, 21

Eagre, 97 Earle, Prof., 14 Edinburgh dialect, 115, 116 Eliot; see George Ellis, A.J., Early English Pronunciation, 103 Erne, 6 English, the old name for Lowland Scotch, 33-35 English Dialect Dictionary, 85, 90, 104 English Dialect Grammar, 104 English Dialect Society, 103 English Metrical Homilies, 28 Essex dialect, 123, 124, 125

Fitzherbert, J., Boke of Husbandry, 99 Flittermouse, 4, 5 Flower and the Leaf, 38 French words in dialects, 93 list of, 96-98

Galt, John, 45 Gauntree, 95 Gawayne and the Grene Knight, 81 George Eliot, use of dialect by, 111 Gloss, meaning of, 23 Glossaries of dialectal words, 102, 103 Old English, 66, 67 Golden Targe, by Dunbar, 45 Gower, use of Kentish by, 62, 63 Greek words in dialects, 87 Grose, F., Provincial Glossary, 101

Hampole, R. Rolle of, 28, 32, 35 Handlyng Synne, quoted, 78, 79 Harleian MS. 2253, 52 Hebrew words in dialects, 88 Henry III., Proclamation of, 75-78 Henry the Minstrel, 33, 35 Higden, Ralph, 53 Hild, Abbess, 16 Hoccleve, 38 Hogg, James, 45 Homilies in Verse, 28 Horn, romance of, 50 Horstmann, Dr, 51 Hrinde (A.S.), 8, 9

Inglis, or Inglisch, 33-35 Isle of Wight dialect, 129, 130

Jamieson’s Dictionary, 43, 44 Jonson, Ben, 5 Juliana, St, 49 Jutes, 56

Keats, 4 Kentish, 10, 11, 12 dialect, 56-64 glosses, 57 sermons, 58 Kentish e (A.S. y), 61-64 King Lear, 50

Lancashire dialect, 119, 120 Latin words in dialects, 87 Layamon’s Brut, 49 Leyden Riddle, 18 Liber Vitæ, 20 Lincolnshire dialect, 118, 119 words, 100, 101 Locrine, 50 London dialect, 74-78 Lorica Prayer, 68, 69 Lydgate, 38 Lyndesay, Sir David, 34, 35

Madam, ’m, 3 Malory, Sir Thomas, 40 Manning, Robert, 78, 79 Mercian dialect, 10, 11, 36, 37, 65-81 glosses, 70-72 spellings, 71-72 Michel, Dan, 59, 60 Midland dialect, 65-81 rise of, 37, 42 Psalter, 80 East, 65-79 West, 79-81 Minot’s Poems, 29 Moral Ode, 49 Morris, Dr, Blickling Homilies, 8 Old English Miscellany, 49, 58 Old English Homilies, 49 Specimens of Early English, 58 Morris, Dr, on dialects, 81 Morris and Skeat, Specimens, etc., 27-29, 59, 60 Murray, Dr, on the Dialect of Scotland, 28, 32-5 Müller, Prof. Max, Lectures, 3

New English Dictionary, 85 Norfolk dialect, 125-127 Northern dialect, great extent of, 32-35 Northumbrian, 10, 11, 12, 14-46 glosses, 22-24 riddle, 18 Nut-brown Maid, 38

Old English Homilies, 49 Ormulum, The, 73, 74 Owl and Nightingale, 49

Peacock’s (Lincolnshire) Glossary, 44 Pearl, The, 80 Phonetic decay, 3 Plays, early, 41 Plurals, Southern, 61 Prick of Conscience, 28 Proverbs of Alfred, 49 Psalter, by Hampole, 32 Prose Treatises, by the same, 32 Psalter, Northumbrian, 25-27 West Midland, 80

Ramsay, Allan, 45 Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101 Rimy, 8, 9 rind, 9 Robert of Gloucester, 50 Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35 Romances, dialect of, 44 list of, 38-40 Ross, Alexander, 45 Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72 Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20

Scandinavian words in dialects, 88-93 list of, 90-93 Scots, Middle, 44, 45 Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45 Scottish and English, 43, 44 Scottish Laws, early, 32 Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50 use of dialect, 100 Sheffield dialect, 121, 122 Shoreham, Wm. of, 58 quoted, 59 Shropshire dialect, 127-128 Skeat, Chaucer Canon, 73 Etymological Dictionary, 84-85 Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, 71 Index to Icelandic Dictionary, 89 Primer of English Etymology, 84 Principles of English Etymology, 70, 87, 89 Skinner, S., Etymologicon, 100 Smith, G. Gregory, Specimens of Middle Scots, 44, 45 South English Legendary, 51 Southern dialect, 47-55 Southey, R., his use of dialect, 111 Specimens of Early English Part I., 49, 50 Part II., 51, 79 See Morris Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar, 99 Stephens, Prof., 18 Sussex dialect, 130-132 Sweet, Dr, 15 Anglo-Saxon Primer, 48 Anglo-Saxon Reader, 18 Anglo-Saxon Reader, Dialectal, 56-57 Oldest English Texts, 10, 15, 19, 66 Gregory’s Pastoral Care, 7

Tannahill, Robert, 45 Tennyson, 4, 111 Testament of Love, 53, 54 Trevisa, John, 53, 55 Tusser, T., Pointes of Husbandrie, 99 Twenty, 3

Usk, Thomas, 53, 54

Vernon MS., 52 Vespasian Psalter, 69, 70

Wessex see Anglo-Saxon Westmoreland dialect, 117, 118 William of Palerne, 80 Wiltshire dialect, 128-129 Wise, J.R., 5 Wright, Dr J., English Dialect Dictionary, 9, 85, 90, 104 Wright, T., Political Songs, 29 Wyntoun, 29, 33

Yon, 6, 7

{Alternative transcription of Proclamation, reversing orthographic changes made by author:

“substituting y (at the beginning of a word) or gh (elsewhere) for the symbol ȝ, and th for the symbol þ, and v for u when between two vowels.”

¶ Henri, þurȝ Godes fultume king on Engleneloande, Lhoauerd on Yrloande, Duk on Norm(andi), on Aquitaine, and Eorl on Aniow, send igretinge to alle hise holde ilærde and ileawede on Huntendoneschire: þæt witen ȝe wel alle, þæt we willen and unnen þæt, þæt ure rædesmen alle, oþer þe moare dæl of heom þæt beoþ ichosen þurȝ us and þurȝ þæt loandes folk on ure kuneriche, habbeþ idon and schullen don in þe worþnesse of Gode and on ure treowþe, for þe freme of þe loande, þurȝ þe besiȝte of þan to-foren iseide redesmen, beo stedefaest and ilestinde in alle þinge, abuten ænde. And we hoaten alle ure treowe, in þe treowþe þæt heo us ogen, þæt heo stedefæstliche healden, and swerien to healden and to werien, þo isetnesses þæt beon imakede and beon to makien, þurȝ þan to-foren iseide rædesmen, oþer þurȝ þe moare dæl of hem, alswo also hit is biforen iseid; And þæt æhc oþer helpe þæt for to done bi þan ilche oþe, ayenes alle men, riȝt for to done and to foangen. And noan ne nime of loande ne of eȝte, wherþurȝ þis besiȝte muȝe beon ilet oþer iwersed on onie wise. And ȝif oni oþer onie cumen her onyenes, we willen and hoaten þæt alle ure treowe heom healden deadliche ifoan. And for þæt we willen þæt þis beo stedefæst and lestinde, we senden ȝew þis writ open, iseined wiþ ure seel, to halden a-manges ȝew me hord. Witnesse us selven æt Lundene, þane eȝtetenþe day on þe monþe of Octobre, in þe two and fowertiȝþe ȝeare of ure cruninge. And þis wes idon ætforen ure isworene redesmen, Boneface archebischop on Kanterburi, Walter of Cantelow, bischop on Wirechestre, Simon of Muntfort, eorl on Leirchestre, Richard of Clare, eorl on Glowchestre and on Hurtforde, Roger Bigod, eorl on Norþfolke and marescal on Engleneloande, Perres of Sauueye, Willelm of Fort, eorl on Aubemarle, Iohan of Pleisseiz, eorl on Warewike, Iohan Geffreës sune, Perres of Muntfort, Richard of Grey, Roger of Mortemer, James of Aldiþel; and ætforen oþre inoȝe. ¶ And al on þo ilche worden is isend in-to ævrihce oþre shcire ouer al þære kuneriche on Engleneloande, and ek in-tel Irelonde. }