Chapter XII: Part VII: The Dialects of the English Language

678. Bearing of the investigation 531
679. Structural and _ethnological_ views 531
680-682. Causes that effect change 532
683, 684. Preliminary notices 533
685. Philological preliminaries 533
686, 687. Present provincial dialects 534-540
688-691. Caution 540-544
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692-696. Districts north of the Humber 545-552
697. South Lancashire 552
698. Shropshire, &c. 553
699. East Derbyshire, &c. 553
700. Norfolk and Suffolk 554
701. Leicestershire, &c. 555
702. Origin of the present written language 555
703. Dialects of the Lower Thames 556
704. Kent--Frisian theory 557
705. Sussex, &c. 559
706. Supposed East Anglian and Saxon frontier 560
707. Dialects of remaining counties 560
708. Objections 561
709. Dialect of Gower 561
710. ---- the Barony of Forth 563
711. Americanisms 565
712. Extract from a paper of Mr. Watts 566
713. Gypsy language, &c. 572
714. _Talkee-talkee_ 573
715, 716. Varieties of the Anglo-Norman 574
717-719. Extracts from Mr. Kemble 575-580

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AN INTRODUCTION

TO THE STUDY OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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