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Excerpt from A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire; With Others Peculiar to Lower Nidderdale: To Which Is Prefixed on Outline Grammar of the Mid-Yorkshire Dialect
The contractions immediately following the glossic rendering Of each dialect word will be understood as indicating the several parts Of speech. Where there is no contraction Of this nature, the word exampled is a singular substantive.
The words contained in the first edition Of the Whitby Glossary are unclassified in their uses. In the following pages, where their classification was necessary, it will not, in many cases, be found in correspondence with the usage noted in the Whitby Glossary. Where, in this Glossary, the exampled use Of a word is restricted to one part Of speech, say, a neuter verb, and its local use as an active verb ought to have been also noted, it seemed the simplest and most convenient plan to indicate this complete usage merely by adding v. A.' after the 'v. N.'
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