Two collections of Derbicisms containing words and phrases in a great measure peculiar to the natives and inhabitants of the county of Derby /

by Samuel Pegge ... Edited, with two introductions, by the Rev. Professor Skeat ... and Thomas Hallam.
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Main Creator: Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796.
Contributors: Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : Pub. for the English dialect society by H. Frowde, Oxford university press, 1896.
Series:English dialect society. [Publications] ; no. 78
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Notes:Forms with W. W. Skeat's Nine specimens of English dialects [Publications. no. 76] vol. XXXII of the society's Publications.

Edited from a manuscript (ca. 1751-91) in possession of Skeat.

"Introduction: part II" by Thomas Hallam, includes a sketch of "Whittington and district", a "Memoir of the Rev. Dr. Pegge" by his son Samuel, and an "Account of his writings" p. li-lvi)

"Books referred to": p. xx-xxii.

Physical description: xcix, [1], 138 p., 1 l, ; 23 cm.

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