8175-40272.

ON

EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION,

WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO

SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER,

CONTAINING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
WRITING WITH SPEECH IN ENGLAND, FROM THE ANGLOSAXON
PERIOD TO THE EXISTING RECEIVED AND DIALECTAL FORMS,
WITH A SYSTEMATIC NOTATION OF SPOKEN SOUNDS BY
MEANS OF THE ORDINARY PRINTING TYPES.

INCLUDING

A RE-ARRANGEMENT OF PROF. F. J. CHILD'S MEMOIRS ON THE LANGUAGE OF
CHAUCER AND GOWER, REPRINTS OF THE RARE TRACTS BY SALESBURY ON
ENGLISH, 1547, AND WELSH, 1567, AND BY BARCLEY ON FRENCH, 1521,
ABSTRACTS OF SCHMELLER'S TREATISE ON BAVARIAN DIALECTS, AND
WINKLER'S LOW GERMAN AND FRIESIAN DIALECTICON, AND
PRINCE L. L. BONAPARTE'S VOWEL AND CONSONANT LISTS.

BY

ALEXANDER J. ELLIS,

F.R.S., F.S.A., F.C.P.S., F.C.P.,

VICE-PRESIDENT, TWICE PRESIDENT, OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, B.A., 1837.

PART V.

[pp. 1*-88*, 1433-2267.]

EXISTING DIALECTAL AS COMPARED WITH WEST SAXON
PRONUNCIATION.

With two Maps of the Dialect Districts.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY,

THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, AND THE CHAUCER SOCIETY. BY

TRÜBNER & CO., 57 AND 59, LUDGATE HILL.

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ERRATA.

p. 20, 1. 20, read or t.

p. 32, 1. 5, read La (u).

dt. par. 1, read eba'ut dat.

p. 37, 1. 19 from bottom, under Do., for *Blandford read *Cranborne.

p. 45, par. 6, last word, read æks)UR.

p. 47, note 6, first line, read the (d).

p. 57, line 3 from bottom, No. 904, read váyLaт.

p. 58, line 3, read 923*.

p. 65, par. 0, 1. 8, for Potter read Trotter.

par. 10, 1. 3, read but (win'iken).

p. 66, 1. 1 and 2, for Potter, read Trotter.

p. 80, East Dorset cwl., 1. 2, read Cranborne, and 1. 5 dele and.

p. 85, joke on (atı) last line, read ed)ɛ)a'd.

p. 94, 1. 10, read — L (mu ̧ni).

p. 109, 1. 6, read Miss M. A. Firth.

p. 111.

Authorities, Np. add †Daventry, +Farthinghoe, +Helmdon, Long Buckley, †Silverstone, Slapton, †Syersham, †Towcester, †Watford, +Weedon, +Wood Burcote,

Woodford.

p. 113, paragraph B, line 1, read a nonagenarian widow about 94; line M, read Malvern Wells.

p. 114, 1. 30, read CLAVERDON, WA. (5 w.Warwick).

p. 129, 1. 15 from bottom, read may have possibly.

p. 131, 1. 4, read Pasingworth.

1. 6, read Shadoxhurst.

p. 133, dt. par. 3, read v)du Rɔq.

p. 136, last line but one, read Rev. J. W. Rumny.

p. 140, No. 422, read vomited."

p. 157, 1. 9, read Mr. Shelly's

p. 162, No. 646, read bo'y".

p. 163, 1. 2, read mEE'k)'n.

p. 175, Area, 1. 2, after Br., add outlying parts of Wo.

p. 183, 1. 2 from bottom, read drə'undid.

p. 186, No. 702, read uth.

p. 194, line B, read Chackmore, and line T, read Tyrringham.

p. 199, line S, read n-by-w.

p. 201, for 125 oni, read 194 oni.

p. 217, 1. 23, read H. F. Tollemache.

p. 222, 1. 31, read degradation.

p. 225, 1. 6, read dɛ"un.

p. 235, 1. 3, read Henley-on-Thames in Ox. and 1. 4, read Penn, Bu. (3 e-by-n.

High Wycombe).

E.E. Pron, Part V.