A Dictionary of the Isle Wight Dialect: And of Provincialisms Used in the Island; with Illustrative Anecdotes and Tales; to Which Is Appended the Christmas Boy's Play, an Isle of Wight "Hooam Harvest", and Songs Sung by the Peasantry; Forming a Treasury of Insular Manners and Customs of Fifty Years Ago.

Author: LONG, W. H.
Title: A Dictionary of the Isle Wight Dialect: And of Provincialisms Used in the Island; with Illustrative Anecdotes and Tales; to Which Is Appended the Christmas Boy's Play, an Isle of Wight "Hooam Harvest", and Songs Sung by the Peasantry; Forming a Treasury of Insular Manners and Customs of Fifty Years Ago.
Description: London and Newport, Reeves & Turner, G. A. Brannon, 1886. Original green cloth lettered gilt to spine and upper board, xii+170pp. Generally very good, clean and tight, but boards showing some damp discolouration. "In 1886, W.H. Long published his Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect — a book much quoted from to this day." Alan Stroud (2020).

Keywords: Dialect|Featured|Dictionary

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- Book number: 38556

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