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The etymological spelling book and expositor, being an introduction to the spelling, pronunciation, and derivation, of the English language : containing, besides several other important impovements, extensive tables of words deduced from their Greek and Latin roots : adapted to the use of classical and ladies' schools, and also of adults and foreigners
Butter, Henry (1829-1848)
1843
With an advertisement for other works by the author on p. [v]-vii.
The Westmorland dialect : with the adjacency of Lancashire & Yorkshire, in four familiar dialogues: in which an attempt is made to illustrate the provincial idiom
Wheeler, Ann Coward (1735-1804); Ritson, Isaac (1761-1789)
1821
"The Cumberland dialect, entitled the Borrowdale letter; from a shepherd, to his friend, describing his voyage from Whitehaven to Dublin" [by Isaac Ritson], and "Addenda" each paged seperately at the ...
The Westmorland dialect : with the adjacency of Lancashire & Yorkshire, in four familiar dialogues: in which an attempt is made to illustrate the provincial idiom
Wheeler, Ann Coward (1735-1804); Ritson, Isaac (1761-1789)
1821
"The Cumberland dialect, entitled the Borrowdale letter; from a shepherd, to his friend, describing his voyage from Whitehaven to Dublin" [by Isaac Ritson], and "Addenda" each paged seperately at the ...
The Westmorland dialect : with the adjacency of Lancashire & Yorkshire, in four familiar dialogues: in which an attempt is made to illustrate the provincial idiom
Wheeler, Ann Coward (1735-1804); Ritson, Isaac (1761-1789)
1821
"The Cumberland dialect, entitled the Borrowdale letter; from a shepherd, to his friend, describing his voyage from Whitehaven to Dublin" [by Isaac Ritson], and "Addenda" each paged seperately at the ...
A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts
Dilworth, Thomas (1780)
1795
"The whole (being recommended by several clergymen and eminent school masters, as the most useful performance for the instruction of youth) is designed for the use of schools in Great-Britain, Ireland...
The scholar's companion, or, A guide to the orthography, pronunciation, and derivation of the English language : containing, besides several other important improvements, extensive tables of words, deduced from their Greek and Latin roots. Designed for schools and academies, and also for students in elocution. Arranged on the basis of the fifteenth London edition of Butter's etymological spelling-book and expositor
Butter, Henry (1794-1885); Green, Richard W; Butter, Henry (1794-1885)
1838
Elements of orthoepy : containing a distinct view of the whole analogy of the English language : so far as it relates to pronunciation, accent, and quantity
Nares, Robert (1753-1829)
1784
Spine title: Nares's orthoepy.
A glossary of words pertaining to the dialect of mid-Yorkshire : with others peculiar to lower Nidderdale : to which is prefixed an Outline grammar of the mid-Yorkshire dialect
Robinson, C Clough
1876
[No.1] in v.5 of the Society's Publications.
A glossary of the dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield
Easther, Alfred (1820-1876); Lees, Thomas (1829-1898)
1883
[No.1] in v.15 of the society's Publications.
The miscellaneous works of Tim Bobbin... : containing his view of the Lancashire dialect ; with large additions and improvements. Also his poem of the flying dragon and the man of Heaton : to which is added, a life of the author ; Plebeian politics ; or, The principles and practices of certain mole-eyed maniacs vulgarly called Warrites by way of dialogue betwixt two Lancashire towns ; together with several fugitive pieces
Bobbin, Tim (1708-1786); Townley, Richard; Bobbin, Tim the Second (1728-)
1812 [i.e. 1815]
"Plebian politics" has separate t.p. and pagination. "A glossary of Lancashire words and phrases": pages [62]-111, first grouping; p. [81]-89, second grouping. The battle of the flying dragon and ...