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Bill Griffiths - A Dictionary of North East Dialect
2005 | ISBN: 1458784843 | English | 600 pages | PDF | 1.8 MB
2005 | ISBN: 1458784843 | English | 600 pages | PDF | 1.8 MB
As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect. The research presents information about words that go back as far as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings as well as those present in today's vernacular. Ideal for anyone interested in English etymology, this reference is thorough and essential.
Review
"A vivid guide, not only to the distinctive vocabulary of the North East, but also the ways in which dialect words contain echoes of the long history of the region and its people. By explaining the words he helps us to understand the place." —Keith Wrightson, professor, Yale University
Bill Griffiths was a translator; a book designer, an editor, and a publisher; an archivist; a social historian; and a scholar of Old English. Recognized as one of the greatest dialect poets of the 20th century, he was the author of several hundred published works, including Binaries Not Sonnets, Cycles, The Dictionary of the North East Dialect, Durham and Other Sequences, Future Exiles, and War with Windsor, as well as the Wor Language series.