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The Dialect of Cumberland

Robert Ferguson

The Dialect of Cumberland
A facsimile reprint of the edition of 1873.
With a chapter on its Place-names. The olk-speech of Cumberland has has a more ample share of recognition than a lot of provincial dialects. Its humour and its pathos, its "canniness" - quaintness with a touch of cynicism. Here is a contribution to the etymological analysis of its constituents.

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