An Exmoor Scolding: In the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The former editions of these Dialogues, though well received and esteemed by those who had some acquaintance with the provincial dialects in the western parts of England, yet for want of such a Glossary as is now added, were in a great measure unintelligible to most others, except perhaps a few etymologists and collectors of old and uncommon words. The editors have therefore endeavoured to supply that defect; and that this eighth edition might be rendered as correct as possible, the whole has been carefully revised, some explanatory notes inserted, and the spelling of the provincial words better accommodated to their usual pronunciation among the peasants in the county of Devon. This, as well as their explanations in the Vocabulary or Glossary, it is presumed may be of some use to such lawyers as go the western circuit, by whom the evidence of a countryman is sometimes mistaken, for want of a proper interpretation of his language.

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