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Excerpt from A Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature: To Which Is Appended a List of Family Surnames Pronounced Differently From What the Spelling Suggests
Dialect Society, to whose indefatigable labours we owe so much, it seems strange that the subject of Dialectal place-nomenclature should have been almost entirely overlooked. From the great and increasing interest taken in the study of place-names it is the more unaccountable. To supply this oversight is the primary object of the present work. Professor Skeat, writing to Notes and Queries, 6th S., ii., 50, truly remarks - In attempting a collection of Place Names I hope it will be born in mind that what we want is the list of them, with the earliest spelling where they can be ascertained, (to which may be added the local pronunciation when differingfrom that suggested by the ordinary mode of spelling, which often proves the correct one of the original name). The Etymology of place-names is extremely difficult, and on that account is absolutely revelled in by the guess-makers, because they know how hard it is to confute them. The place-names of England are of great interest and value; let us not discredit their value by unworthy associations with modern guess-work.
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