13 Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect.

14Sussex Pilgrimages (1927), 99.

15 William H. Cope, A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases (London, 1883), vi; see also William D. Cooper, A Glossary of Provincialisms in Use in Sussex (1852), and John George Aker-man, A Glossary of Words in Use in Wiltshire (1842). On common elements in the dialects of Somersetshire, Wiltshire and parts of Devonshire see Frederic T. Elworthy, The West Somerset Word-Book (London, 1886), and An Outline of the Grammar and Dialect of West Somerset (London, 1877). These early glossaries show stronger resemblances to the southern accent than do the surveys of English rural speech by scholars in the 20th century. An excellent collection of materials on this question is in the West Country Room of the Exeter Library, adjacent to the Devonshire Record Office.

16 Cope, A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases.

17“Selected Poems in Somerset Dialect,” SFS I (1922), 54-90.