James Wallace, An Account of the Isles of Orkney (1700)
Date
1700
Author
Book title
An Account of the Isles of Orkney
Publication place
London
Publisher
Jacob Tonson
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Norwegian
Summary
Names of plants growing in Orkney (pp. 15-34), sea-shells native in the islands (pp. 39-45), and comments on place-names
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Echinus marinus, orbicularis, esculentus. The largest of this kind I ever see any where are in Orkney; I have seen several of them twenty or thirty Inches in Circumference. The common people reckon the meat of the Sea Urchin or Ivegars as they call them a great Rarity, and use it oft instead of Butter. (p. 41)
sample: Echinus marinus, orbicularis, esculentus. The largest of this kind I ever see any where are in Orkney; I have seen several of them twenty or thirty Inches in Circumference. The common people reckon the meat of the Sea Urchin or Ivegars as they call them a great Rarity, and use it oft instead of Butter. (p. 41)
Wing
W491
Criticisms
Bately, Janet M. "Ray, Worlidge, and Kersey's Revision of The New World of English Words." Anglia 85 (1967): 1-14.
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Raven, Charles E. John Ray, Naturalist, his Life and Works. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. view record
Gladstone, Jo. "'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of His Times (1658-1691)." Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language. Eds. Peter Burke and Roy Porter. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1991. 115-53. view record
Baldwin, Stuart A. John Ray (1627-1705). Witham: n.p., 1986. view record
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey. John Ray, 1627-1705: A Bibliography 1660-1970: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works of John Ray, English Naturalist, Philologist and Theologian. Amsterdam: G. Th. van Heusden, 1976. view record
