English language - Provincialisms
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A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explanations / By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... To which is added, (written by the same author) a collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: 1768
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A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions / By Francis Grose.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: 1811
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A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. : The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explications / By the late Reverend and learned J. Ray ... ; To which is added, (written by the same author) a collection of English words not generally used ... ; With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: 1737- Books
Old country and farming words / gleaned from agricultural books by James Britten.
Date: 1880- Books
Hobson-Jobson : being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms: etymological, historical, geographical, and discursive / by Col. Henry Yule ... and the late Arthur Coke Burnell.
Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889.Date: 1886