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Title: A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire

Author: Wadham Pigott Williams

Release Date: April 28, 2008 [eBook #25212]

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.

[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