4 Hans Kurath, Studies in Area Linguistics (Bloomington, Ind., 1972), 66; EDD, s.v., “nicker”; OED, s.v., “neigh”; H. Orton and W. J. Halliday, Survey of English Dialects: The Six Northern Counties (Leeds, 1962-63).

5 John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1830, new ed., 1856), I, 129.