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CHiltshive Words. 
By J. U. Powett, M.A. 
a of this Magazine who saw the lists of words that 
appeared in Nos. ]xxvi., eet . and lxxxi,-a pehont time 
_ Many collections of local words have been published lately, and 
hey are being incorporated.into the English Dialect Dictionary 
Vocabulary of all Dialect Words still in use, or known to’have 
been in use during the last two hundred years.” London: Henry: 
Froude). This will be a worthy companion to the complete English: 
Dictionary, which is gradually issuing from the Scriptorium. of: . 
The Wiltshire Word List will be of real value to the student of 
the English language; it is prefaced by an account of the vowel- 
anges in the dialect, and contains a large number of archaie: 
The ordinary reader, in his turn, will be gratified by a number’ 
f vigorous and racy expressions. Perhaps, too, the book will help 
me to realise, that rusticity, whether in language or pronunciation, 
eed not be considered vulgarity, but is often archaism; and further, 
hat rough country vigour is really “poetry in the egg,”’ and ‘is, in 
* the ground-stuff of pauers literature. 
ry iltshire Words: G. E. Dartnell and Rev. E. H. Goddard, M.A. London: 
inted for the English Dialect Society, 1893. 
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