George Meriton, The Praise of Yorkshire Ale (1685)
Date
1685
Author
Lexicon title
An Alphabetical Clavis, Unfolding the Meaning of all the York-shire Words made use of in the aforegoing Dialogue
Book title
The Praise of York-shire Ale Wherein is enumerated several Sorts of Drinks, with a Discription of the Humors of most sorts of Drunckards, To Which is added, a York-shire Dialogue, in its pure natural Dialect, as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire, Being A Miscellanious Discourse or Hotch-potch of Several Country Affairs, begun by a Daughter and her Mother, and continued by the Father, Son, Uncle, Neece, and Land-Lord: after which follows a Scold between Nell and Bess, two Yorkshire women. Corrected and Amended, with large Additions in many places throughout the whole Book, by the Author, And after all, a Clavis explaining the meaning of all the York-shire words in the Dialogue
Publication place
York
Printer
J. White
Publisher
Francis Hilyard
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- dialects (in English)
- Yorkshire
Summary
A glossary to Yorkshire vocabulary in an accompanying poem.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
79-113
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 21
number: 21
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 506
sample: Sowle, is all kind of moyst or supping Victuals. (108)
number: 506
sample: Sowle, is all kind of moyst or supping Victuals. (108)
Alston
IX.7-8
Wing
M1809
Other editions
1697: Wing M1810
Modern editions
A. C. Cawley, ed., Yorkshire Dialect Society Reprint II. 1959.
Criticisms
Görlach (1995): 87-88.
