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Contriktion^ toMxh a Wiltshire €(a0satg. 



By G. E. Daetnell and the Rev. E. H. Goddaed. 



[For previous Word-lists see Vol. xxvi., p. 84, and p. 293.] 



<HESE few pages of Addenda to the Wiltshire Word-lists 

 which have already appeared ia vol. xxvi. of this Magazine 

 must not be taken as by any means exhausting the subject. We 

 have no doubt that many very characteristic words and phrases will 

 prove to have been overlooked by us, however diligent we may have 

 been in our researches : and any additions to our list will always be 

 most acceptable. Thei'e are some parts of the county from which 

 we have as yet obtained little or nothing that is worth recording, 

 and others from which the yield, although by no means inconsider- 

 able, has as yet fallen far short of expectation. However, taking 

 the three lists together, enough materials have now been collected 

 to warrant the publication of the Word-list as a separate volume, 

 and it is with much pleasure that we take this opportunity of an- 

 nouncing that the English Dialect Society has very generously 

 undertaken to include it in their valuable series of County Glossaries, 

 and to publish it at the Clarendon Press this autumn. Our thanks 

 are due to many kind helpers, amongst whom may be mentioned 

 Mr. R. Coward, Mr. J. U. Powell, the Rev. C. Soames, and Mr. 

 F. M. Willis, for their assistance in collecting the words here given, 

 which must be taken as forming part of the lists which appeared in 

 vol. xxvi., pp. 84-169 and 293 — 314. The abbreviations here used 

 are as before, viz. : — (A) Akerman, (B) Britton, (D) Davis, (H) 

 Halliwell, (Wr.) Wright, (N. & S. W.) North and South Wilts, 

 etc., words with which we are not personally acquainted being 

 marked with an asterisk (*). A few very interesting words have 

 been gleaned from a small Glossary of Wiltshire Words, by Mr. 

 Edward Slow, of Wilton (the well-known author of Wiltshire 

 Rhymes), which has recently been published. 





