A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words
James Orchard Halliwell · 1847
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Description
James Orchard Halliwell published his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words in 1847. Halliwell, a young scholar of old English texts, gathered words that standard dictionaries left out. Some were already dead, surviving only in early books, while others lived on in county speech far from London.
The entries define old and regional words and quote the writers who used them, from Chaucer onward. Readers puzzled by Shakespeare or by a grandmother's dialect could find the missing sense here. The dictionary saved thousands of words from being lost for good as speech grew more uniform. It remains a key tool for anyone reading early English literature or studying how the language changed across regions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James Orchard Halliwell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1847 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4791092 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |
Source: https://archive.org/details/halliwellarchaicandprovincialwords01