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Excerpt from A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, Vol. 1
It is a mistake to imagine that the Dialects are everywhere corruptions of the literary language. Even in England the local patois have many forms which are more primitive than the language of Shakspere, and the richness of their vocabulary surpasses, on many points, that of the classical writers of any period. -max moller, Lectures on the Science of Language. 8th Ed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
