PROVINCIALISMS 



PERTAINING TO THE 



RURAL ECONOMY OF NORFOLK. 



THE languages of Europe are not more 

 various, or fcarcely more different from each 

 other, than are the dialecls of hufbandmen in 

 different Diflridts of this Ifland. 



The practice of a given Diftrift, therefore, 

 can only be ftudicd in the dialed: of that Dif- 

 trift. No converfation can be carried ^on 

 without its affiftance. And although a man o 

 obfervation may, by obfervation alone, make 

 himfelf mailer of the outline and principal 

 features of practice ; yet for the minutiae, he 

 will find it convenient, and frequently necef- 

 fary, to have recourle to ccnverfation. 



But a mere practitioner will not communi- 

 cate with a man who does not fpeak his lan- 

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