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Introduction to the study of the history of language

Note 156 — Chapter XV · CATEGORIES: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND GRAMMATICAL.

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Cf. Earle (Philology of the English Tongue, p. 536), who cites these phrases as provincialisms to be heard in all classes of society in Yorkshire. Every careful speaker will agree with him in deeming them “one of the finest of our provincialisms.”

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