ment he has received, during his undertaking, from different eminent individuals, which it would have the appearance of personal vanity in the Author to particularize, he has endeavoured to the best of his ability, and making the most of the time which he could allow himself from other avocations, to re-construct, and, as he hopes, materially to improve, the Glossary of North Country Words.

Of the instances of misconception and inadvertence, which may still remain, those, who are most conversant with the subject, will, in its various and complicated nature, discover the best extenuation.

Albion Place, 16th March, 1829.

Jennings.

AUTHORS AND WORKS.

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Glossary of Obsolete and Provincial Words, 4to.
London, 1807.

Hora Momenta Cravenæ, or the Craven Dia-
lect exemplified, 12mo. Lond. 1824.

2d. edit. Dialect of Craven, with a copious Glossary, 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1828.

Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis, 6 tom. fol. Paris, 1733.

Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum: a Dictionary of
the Gaelic Language, compiled and published
under the direction of the Highland Society of
Scotland, 2 vols. 4to. Edinb. 1828.

Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local
Proverbs, Svo. Lond. 1787.

Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 8vo.
Lond. 1785.

Glossarium Suio-Gothicum, 2 tom. fol. Upsal.

1769.

Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 2 vols. 4to. Edinb. 1808.

Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 2 vols. 4to. Edinb.

1825.

Observations on some of the Dialects in the West of England, particularly Somersetshire : with a Glossary, 12mo. Lond. 1825.

Jun.-Junius.......... Etymologicum Anglicanum. Edid. Lye, fol.

Kilian.

Le Roux............

Lye.

Oxon. 1743.

Etymologicon Teutonicæ Linguæ, 2 tom. 4to.
Traj. Bat. 1777.

Dictionnaire comique, satyrique, critique, burles-
que, libre, et proverbial, 2 tom. 8vo. Lion. 1752.
Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum.
Edid. Manning, 2 tom. fol. Lond. 1772.

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Moor.

CONTRACTIONS.

Suffolk Words and Phrases, by Edward Moor,
F.R.S. F.A.S., &c. 12mo. Woodbridge, 1823.

Nares.-Nares' Gloss. A Glossary; or Collection of Words, Phrases Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, &c. 4to. Lond. 1822.

Palsgrave.............................. L'Esclaircissement de la Langue Françoise, fol. BLACK LETTER. The two first books printed

Somner.

Spelman.

by Pynson, and the third (the most copious
part) by Iohan Hawkins-the only work he
ever executed.

Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum, fol.
Pynson, 1499.

Collection of English Words, 12mo. Lond.
1691.

Glossaire de la Langue Romane, 2 tom. 8vo.
Paris, 1808. Supplement, 8vo. 1820.
Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ, fol. Lond.

1671.

Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, fol.
Oxon. 1659.

Glossarium Archaiologicum, fol. Lond. 1687. Thomson,............... Etymons of English Words, 4to. Edinb. 1826. Todd's John.-Todd's Johnson. Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, L. L.D. Edited by the Rev. H. I. Todd, M. A., F.S. A., 4 vols. 4to. Lond. 1818-2d. edit. 3 vols. 4to. Lond. 1827. Diversions of Purley, 2 vols. 4to. Lond. 1798 and 1805.

Tooke

Wachter.

Watson.

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Glossarium Germanicum, 2 tom. fol. Lips. 1737.

Vocabulary of uncommon Words used in Halifax Parish.

Wilb.-Wilbraham. An Attempt at a Glossary of some Words used in Cheshire. From the Archæologia, Vol. XIX. With considerable Additions, 8vo. Lond. 1820. 2d. edit. Lond. 1826.

Willan.

A List of Ancient Words at present used in the
Mountainous Districts of the West Riding of
Yorkshire. Archæologia, Vol. XVII.

A

Glossary

OF

NORTH COUNTRY WORDS

IN USE.

A.

A. It is a striking provincial peculiarity, in many parts of the North of England, tenaciously to retain this letter in most of the words in which modern English substitutes o; as awn, own; bane, bone; hame, home; &c.; and to omit the two last letters in those ending in ; as a' (aw) for all; ca' (caw) for call; &c. But But at Hexham, and a district round it, the a, instead of usurping the place of o, as is common in most other parts of Northumberland, is itself converted into o, in the vulgar pronunciation; as o, for all; bo, for ball; fote, for fault; hofe, for half, &c. "Hexham ho-penny” is a bye-word of long standing; and " Hexham, the heart of o England," may be said to be proverbial.

A, always, ever.—Cumb. A, in the Saxon language, is the adverb here given. Perhaps from the same root the Germans have their ewig, and its dependents. In the formation of our border dialects it has been freely denizened. "For ever and a," is an expression used by old rustics. Philologers and grammarians will decide how far, in this sense, pleonasm of continuous action, the a is an adverbial prefix to our participles agoing, acoming, &c.

A, interrogative-a? what? what do you say?

B