Name: Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the No
Author: Bryham Kirkby
ISBN: 978-1272899721

Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the No

By Bryham Kirkby 6 Mar, 2019

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It is not necessary to speak many words in praise of such an excellent book as “Lakeland Words,” it speaks for itself, and must appeal to any and every Englishman who loves his country and his native mother tongue. It has often been said that the vocabulary of the ordinary rustic is but poor and scanty, and it is just such books as Mr. Kirkby’s which show how entirely false this statement is. Mr. Kirkby, besides, is not a mere collector, come down from London with his carpet bag to spend a few weeks in the north to pick up material for “copy,” but he has been born and bred in the country of which he writes, and he knows and understands the dialect as no one from outside could. I have had innumerable proofs of this from the vast amount of most valuable material he has contributed to the English Dialect Dictionary. There is a freshness and naturalness in his material which is not found in books written by people imperfectly acquainted with the people and the district. Less

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