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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire, by Wadham Pigott Williams, et al This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Author: Wadham Pigott Williams Release Date: April 28, 2008 [eBook #25212] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL WORDS & PHRASES IN USE IN SOMERSETSHIRE*** 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. [Picture: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society emblem] 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 Archaeological 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 Petherton. I have completed this task to the best of my ability, with the kind co-operation of our late excellent Secretary, WM. ARTHUR JONES; and the result is before the public. We freely made use of Norris, Jennings, Halliwell, or any other collector of words that we could find, omitting mere peculiarities of pronunciation, and I venture to hope it will prove that we have not overlooked much that is left of that interesting old language, which those great innovators, the Printing Press, the Railroad, and the Schoolmaster, are fast driving out of the country. WADHAM PIGOT
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