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CHAPTER VI ARCHAIC MEANINGS AND FORMS IN THE DIALECTS Old meanings of standard English words surviving in the dialects 77-84 Historical forms surviving in the dialects 84-86 Old grammatical distinctions preserved in the dialects 87-89 Regular forms in the dialects compared with irregularities in standard English 90-91 Doublets, such as: challenge beside the dialect form callenge, &c. 92-94 Variants due to Scandinavian borrowings 94-95 CHAPTER VII FOREIGN LOAN-WORDS French loan-words 96-102 Scandinavian loan-words 103-104 Celtic loan-words 105-106 Latin, and Dutch loan-words 107-108 Poetical and learned words in the dialects 108-109 CHAPTER VIII LITERARY WORDS WITH DIALECT MEANINGS Quotations illustrating the meanings given in the dialects to literary words 110-118 Dialect words alike in form to existing literary words, but different in meaning and origin, e.g. damsel, a damson, &c. 118-120 CHAPTER IX ALLITERATIVE AND RHYMING PHRASES AND COMPOUNDS Alliterative compounds 121-122 Phrases containing two synonymous verbs 122-123 Rhyming compounds and phrases 124-125 CHAPTER X PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR The classification of dialects 126-127 Characteristics of the various dialect groups 127-128 Phonology of the dialects compared with standard English 129 Vowels 130-132 Consonants 132-140 The Articles 140-141 Nouns 141-144 Adjectives and numerals