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By J. U. Powell, M.A. 



|^EADEES of this Magazine who saw the lists of words that 

 appeared in Nos. Ixxvi., lxxvii., and lxxx., a short time 

 back, may not all have seen the Wiltshire Glossary which Messrs. 

 Dartnell and Goddard have edited out of those materials. 1 



Many collections of local words have been published lately, and 

 they are being incorporated into the English Dialect Dictionary 

 now being published in sections at Oxford under the editorship of 

 Dr. Wright (" The English Dialect Dictionary, being the complete 

 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 

 Dr. Murray. 



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- 

 changes in the dialect, and contains a large number of archaic 

 words. 



The ordinary reader, in his turn, will be gratified by a number 

 of vigorous and racy expressions. Perhaps, too, the book will help 

 some to realise, that rusticity, whether in language or pronunciation, 

 need not be considered vulgarity, but is often archaism; and further, 

 that rough country vigour is really "poetry in the egg," and is, in 

 fact, the ground-stuff of English literature. 



Taking, then, these two points of view, the linguistic and the 

 literary, we may divide the valuable words in this Glossary into the 

 following classes : — 



1. Archaisms still in use, and differing but slightly from t ho 



1 Wiltshire Words : G. E. Dartnell and Rev. E. II . Goddard. M.A. London . 

 printed for the English Dialect Society, 1893. 



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