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DIALECT SPEAKERS Decay of pure Dialect 1 Stories concerning Yorkshire people, &c. 2-5 CHAPTER II RICH AND EXPRESSIVE VOCABULARY Variety of terms for expressing one and the same idea; names for a fool, the smallest pig of a litter, the woodpecker, the foxglove, a stream of water, a girl 6-9 Forceful and descriptive dialect words difficult to translate into standard English 10-18 Appropriate compound words 18-19 Fine shades of meaning expressed by slightly different words 19-20 CHAPTER III SPECIMENS OF DIALECT Specimens of dialect sentences 21-24 Misunderstandings between dialect speakers and speakers of standard English 25 An old Dame’s School 26-27 CHAPTER IV CORRUPTIONS AND POPULAR ETYMOLOGIES Some apparent corruptions shown to be old forms 28 Corruptions of Latin and French phrases such as: nolens volens, Pater noster, rendezvous, &c. 29-30 Standard English words used in the wrong places, e.g. sentiment for sediment, profligate for prolific, &c. 30-31 Misplaced suffixes 32 Popular etymologies 33-35 Corruptions of standard English words 35 CHAPTER V ARCHAIC LITERARY WORDS IN THE DIALECTS Old words from early literature surviving in the dialects 36-37 Substantives 37-43 Adjectives 43-46 Verbs 47-53 Archaic words from the Authorized Version of the Bible 53-54 Archaic words from Shakespeare 54-61 Dialect words in Johnson’s Dictionary 61-67 Dialect words supply meanings to difficult forms in Old and Middle English literature 67-71 Old words and forms preserved in surnames