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Contriktions Ulmxfa z Wixlt^xn 



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

 (Continued from vol. xxvii., p. 159.) 



|HE Word-lists which we have had the pleasure of contributing 

 | to this Magazine on three previous oocasions were in 1893 



kindly adopted by the English Dialect Society, and issued, with 

 considerable additions, from the Oxford University Press, as the 

 Wiltshire volume of their invaluable series of County Glossaries. 



It was then intended that at some future time it should be followed 

 up by other similar volumes, comprising: — (1) a Wiltshire Grammar, 

 (2) a selection of Prose Tales and Specimens illustrating the Dialect, 

 with transliterations into Glossic indicating the j>recise pronunciation, 

 and (3) as comprehensive an additional Word-list as could be com- 

 piled,^- thus covering the ground as completely as possible. 



But the Society has since found it absolutely necessary to devote 

 its energies and resources entirely to the preparation and publication 

 of the great Dialect Dictionary, towards which it has for so many 

 years past been accumulating materials, and consequently it will 

 be unable to undertake the issue of any more Wiltshire matter in 

 a separate form. 



We have thought it better, therefore, to treat the following 

 pages as forming a Supplement to the Glossary, rather than a 

 continuation of our previous papers in this Magazine, and so have 

 not included here any of the three hundred or more additional 

 words or senses of words which will be found in the Appendix to 

 the Glossary, or in the body of that work. The references here 

 will also be to the Glossary itself in all cases where additional uses 

 or localities, etc., are given for words previously recorded. 



The English Dialect Dictionary, with which we trust many of 

 our readers are by this time acquainted, will no doubt bo found as 



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