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As long ago as the 1720s, Daniel Defoe wrote about the eccentricities of English dialects. To historians the dialects used in the Yorkshire Dales and rural East Anglia are as important in understanding the living heritage of Britain as the study of ancient buildings. This book describes the most significant features of regional dialects, including the medieval Norse that has infiltrated the vocabulary of the north, the important north/north midland dialect boundary, old forms of nouns and the re
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martyn Wakelin, Martyn Francis Wakelin
- Publisher
- Shire Publications
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780747801764
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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