66 items found

The stories of English (2020)

David Crystal

The story of surnames (1931)

William Dodgson Bowman

A dictionary of place-names: giving their derivations (1887)

C. Blackie

The dialect of the west of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect (1869)

James Knight Jennings

Roger Plowman's excursion to London, with adventures and recollections in Gloucestershire ([1886?])

Aldin Williams

Dictionary of ecclesiastical terms (1962)

J. S. Purvis

The poetry review: Somerset number (1921) [vol.xii, no.6, November-December 1921]

A compendious Anglo-Saxon and English dictionary (1901)

Joseph Bosworth

A compendious Anglo-Saxon and English dictionary (1876)

Joseph Bosworth

A compendious Anglo-Saxon and English dictionary (1848)

Joseph Bosworth

A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect (1837)

Mary Palmer (Linguist)

A glossary of Devonshire plant names (1882)

Hilderic Friend (Reverend)

The place-names of England and Wales (1914)

James Brown Johnston

Personal and family names: a popular monograph on the origin and history of the nomenclature of the present and former times (1883)

Harry Alfred Long

Word-lore: the 'folk' magazine (1928) [Vol. 3, no. 6, December 1928, ]

Word-lore: the 'folk' magazine (1928) [Vol. 3, no. 1, February 1928, ]

Word-lore: the 'folk' magazine (1927) [Vol. 2, no. 5, October 1927, ]

Rustic sketches: being rhymes and 'skits' on angling and other subjects ... (1871)

George Philip Rigney Pulman

Lost beauties of the English language ([1874])

Charles Mackay

A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language (1819)

John Walker (Church historian)

The Westmorland dialect, in four familiar dialogues (1802)

Ann Wheeler

A glossary ... of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland (1867)

Jacob Poole

Keltic researches: studies in the history and distribution of the ancient Goidelic language and peoples (1904)

Edward Williams Byron Nicholson

A rhyming dictionary ... (1819) [Vols 1 & 2 bound together, ]

J. Walker (Linguist)

Hermes: or, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar (1825)

James Harris

The dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the County of York (1828) [Vols 1 & 2 bound together, ]

William Carr

An universal etymological English dictionary (1721)

Nathan Bailey

A dictionary of the English language (1870) [Vol. 2, part 2, ]

R. G. Latham

The poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with an English translation. (1843)

John Mitchell Kemble

A dictionary of the English language (1870) [Vol. 2, part 1, ]

R. G. Latham

A dictionary of the English language (1866) [Vol. 1, part 2, ]

R. G. Latham

A dictionary of the English language (1866) [Vol. 1, part 1, ]

R. G. Latham

Popular rhymes and nursery tales (1849)

J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps

A glossary; or, collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require Illustration in the works of English authors, particularly ... (1822)

Robert Nares

Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon poetry (1826)

John Josias Conybeare

English folk-rhymes (1892)

G. F. Northall

Account of Caedmon's metrical paraphrase of scripture history: an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century (1833)

Henry Ellis (Sir)

On the so-called divining rod, or virgula divina (1897)

William Fletcher Barrett (Sir)

The popular rhymes of Scotland (1870)

Robert Chambers

The folk-lore of Somerset (1920)

Menologium seu calendarium poeticum, ex hickesiano thesauro: or, the poetical calendar of the Anglo-Saxons (1830)

Samuel Fox

Report on wells sunk at Locking, Somerset, to test the alleged power of the divining rod (1884)

William Johnson Sollas

The anglo-saxon version from the historian Orosius (1773)

Daines Barrington

Layamons Brut: or, chronicle of Britain: a poetical semi Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace (1847) [Vol. 2, ]

Frederic Madden (Sir)

A dictionary of archaic and provincial words and obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient customs, from the 14th century (1887) [Vol. 2, J-Z]

J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps

The origin of the english, germanic and scandanavian languages, and nations (1848)

Joseph Bosworth

Caedmon's metrical paraphrase of parts of the holy scriptures in anglo-saxon (1832)

Benjamin Thorpe

King Alfred's anglo-saxon version of Boethius de consolatione philosophiae, with an english translation and notes (1829)

J. S. Cardale

Layamons Brut: or, chronicle of Britain: a poetical semi Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace (1847) [Vol. 1, ]

Frederic Madden (Sir)

A dictionary of archaic and provincial words and obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient customs, from the 14th century (1887) [Vol. 1, A-I]

J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps