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March, 1888, with many valuable notes by Prof. Skeat: (2) the 
word-list in vol. 3 of Britton’s Beauties of Wilts, 1825; collated 
with Akerman, and reprinted in 1879 for the English Dialect 
Society, with additions and annotations, by Prof. Skeat: (3) Aker- 
man’s North Wilts Glossary, 1842, based upon Britton’s earlier 
work: and (4) Halliwell’s Dictionary, 1847, where may be found 
most, but not all, of the Wilts words occurring in our older 
literature, as the anonymous fifteenth century Chronicon Vilodunense ; 
the works and MSS. of John Aubrey, 1626—1697 ; Bishop Kennett’s 
Parochial Antiquities, 1695, and the collections by the same author, 
which form part of the Lansdowne MSS. All words occurring in 
either of these lists have the authority duly noted against them in 
brackets. 
Other authorities that must here be accorded a special mention 
are a paper on Some un-noted Wiltshire phrases, by the Rev. W. C. 
Plenderleath, in Wilts Archeological Magazine, vol. xxii., p. 107; 
_ Britten and Holland’s Dictionary of English Plant Names; the Rev. 
A. C. Smith’s Birds of Wiltshire; Akerman’s Spring-tide and 
Wiltshire Tales ; a short word-list in Mr. E. Slow’s Poems ; and last, 
but by no means least, the works of Richard Jefferies. References 
_ to these are given in many cases where our lack of space precludes 
_ us from quoting at greater length. 
___ The words here gathered together will be found to fall mainly 
under three heads, (1) dialect, as Totty, (2) ordinary English with 
some local shade of use, as Undelieving, and (8) agricultural, as Hyle, 
many of the latter being also entitled to rank as dialect. There may 
also be noted a small number of old words, as ¢ol/, that have long 
died out of standard English, but still hold their own among our 
country people. We have not, as a general rule, thought it ad- 
visable to follow the example set us by our predecessors in including 
such words as archet and deaw, which merely represent the local 
‘pronunciation of orchard and dew; nor have we admitted cantan- 
_ kerous, tramp, and certain others that must now rank with ordinary 
English, whatever claim they may once have had to be considered 
as provincial. More leniency has, however, been exercised with 
regard to the agricultural terms, many that are undoubtedly of 
