A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield

A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield including a selection of local names, and some notices of folklore games, and customs  (1888)  by Sidney Oldall Addy

Published for the English Dialect Society by Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill, London 1888.

Table of Contents.

NB The reader who consults this Glossary should not omit the Addenda and Errata.

• Introduction
  • Area comprised in the Glossary
  • Dialectal Work previously done by others, and the Author's mode of compilation
  • Books written in the Dialect
  • Folk-lore, Customs, etc.
  • The Geographical or Ethnological Position of Sheffield as regards Dialect
  • The Author of the Catholicon Anglicum
  • Local Names
  • The place where 'Robin Hood' was born
  • Conclusion
  • Books cited
  • List of Abbreviations
• Glossary
  • A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
• Addenda and Errata
• List of Commons in the Manor of Sheffield in 1637

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