Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts (1683)
Date
1683
Author
Thomas
Browne
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
Of Languages and Particularly of the Saxon Tongue
Book title
Certain Miscellany Tracts
Publication place
London
Publisher
Charles Mearn
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- dialects (in English)
- Old English
Summary
East Anglian terms
Language
headwords: English
Extent
129-50
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: It were not impossible to make an Original reduction of many words of no general reception in England but of common use in Norfolk, or peculiar to the East Angle Countries; as, Bawnd, Bunny, Thurck, Enemmis, Sammodithee, Mawther, Kedge, Seele, Straft, Clever, Matchly, Dere, Nicked, Stingy, Noneare, Feft, Thepes, Gosgood, Kamp, Sibrit, Fangast, Sap, Cothish, Thokish, Bide owe, Paxwax: of these and some others of no easie originals, when time will permit, the resolution may be attempted; which to effect, the Danish Language new and more ancient may prove of good advantage: which Nation remained here fifty years upon agreement, and have left many Families in it, and the Language of these parts had surely been more commixed and perplex, if the Fleet of Hugo de Bones had not been cast away, wherein threescore thousand Souldiers out of Britany and Flanders were to be wafted over, and were by King John's appointment to have a settled habitation in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk (pp. 146-47)
sample: It were not impossible to make an Original reduction of many words of no general reception in England but of common use in Norfolk, or peculiar to the East Angle Countries; as, Bawnd, Bunny, Thurck, Enemmis, Sammodithee, Mawther, Kedge, Seele, Straft, Clever, Matchly, Dere, Nicked, Stingy, Noneare, Feft, Thepes, Gosgood, Kamp, Sibrit, Fangast, Sap, Cothish, Thokish, Bide owe, Paxwax: of these and some others of no easie originals, when time will permit, the resolution may be attempted; which to effect, the Danish Language new and more ancient may prove of good advantage: which Nation remained here fifty years upon agreement, and have left many Families in it, and the Language of these parts had surely been more commixed and perplex, if the Fleet of Hugo de Bones had not been cast away, wherein threescore thousand Souldiers out of Britany and Flanders were to be wafted over, and were by King John's appointment to have a settled habitation in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk (pp. 146-47)
Alston
III.i.3
Wing
B5151
Other editions
1684: Wing B5152 (Alston III.i.4);
1686: Wing B5150 (Alston III.i.5);
British Library Sloane MS 1839, fols. 27-49 (as printed in his Works, IV, 195)
1686: Wing B5150 (Alston III.i.5);
British Library Sloane MS 1839, fols. 27-49 (as printed in his Works, IV, 195)
Modern editions
Bolton, W. F., ed. The English Language: Essays by English and American Men of Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
70-82.
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Criticisms
- W. F. Bolton, ed., The English Language (Cambridge: CUP, 1966): 70-82.
