Rustic Speech and Folk-lore
by Elizabeth Mary Wright
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wright, Elizabeth Mary, 1863-1958
- Title
- Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Dialects -- England
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 47364
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47364
- Release Date
- November 16, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.RUSTIC SPEECH AND FOLK-LORE
- 2.Transcriber’s Note:
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.SELECT LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED
- 6.ABBREVIATIONS
- 7.INTRODUCTION
- 8.CHAPTER I DIALECT SPEAKERS
- 9.CHAPTER II RICH AND EXPRESSIVE VOCABULARY
- 10.CHAPTER III SPECIMENS OF DIALECT
- 11.CHAPTER IV CORRUPTIONS AND POPULAR ETYMOLOGIES
- 12.CHAPTER V ARCHAIC LITERARY WORDS IN THE DIALECTS
- 13.CHAPTER VI ARCHAIC MEANINGS AND FORMS IN THE DIALECTS
- 14.CHAPTER VII FOREIGN LOAN-WORDS
- 15.CHAPTER VIII LITERARY WORDS WITH DIALECT MEANINGS
- 16.CHAPTER IX ALLITERATIVE AND RHYMING PHRASES AND COMPOUNDS
- 17.CHAPTER X PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR — The Articles — Nouns — Adjectives — Numerals — Pronouns — Verbs
- 18.CHAPTER XI POPULAR PHRASES AND SAYINGS
- 19.CHAPTER XII SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
- 20.CHAPTER XIII SUPERSTITIONS
- 21.CHAPTER XIV CHARMS AND MEDICAL LORE
- 22.CHAPTER XV DIVINATION
- 23.CHAPTER XVI BIRTH, MARRIAGE, AND DEATH CUSTOMS
- 24.CHAPTER XVII CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH CERTAIN DAYS AND SEASONS
- 25.CHAPTER XVIII GAMES
- 26.CHAPTER XIX WEATHER LORE AND FARMING TERMS
- 27.CHAPTER XX WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- 28.CHAPTER XXI PLANT NAMES AND NAMES OF ANIMALS
- 29.Transcriber’s Note:
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