John Smyth, On Berkeley in Gloucestershire (1639)
Date
1639
Author
Lexicon title
Phrases and proverbs of speach proper to this hundred
Book title
A Description of the Hundred of Berkeley, and of the Inhabitants thereof, in the County of Gloucester' The Remaines of a greater worke
Transcription source
John Smyth, of Nibley, The Berkeley Manuscripts: A Description of the Hundred of Berkeley in the County of Gloucester, ed. Sir John Maclean, III (Gloucester: John Bellows for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1885): 22-34
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- dialects (in English)
- proverbs
Summary
Discussion of local Berkeley dialectal pronunciation, words, and phrases
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: "A grible. i.e. a crabstocke to graft vpon" (25)
sample: "A grible. i.e. a crabstocke to graft vpon" (25)
