Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, With Examples of Their Colloquial Use, and Illustrations From Various Authors, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, With Examples of Their Colloquial Use, and Illustrations From Various Authors, Vol. 1: To Which Are Added, the Customs of the CountyThe Words here brought together are more numerous than in any other Glossary, amounting with the phrases to upwards of 5000, of which number there are more than 2000 that have not been included in any previous publication of the kind. They have, with very few exceptions, been collected by myself, and, having been the companion of my lamented brother in his topographical excursions through the county, during the progress of his History, I was brought into contact with every grade of society from the poor to the peasant, and thus ob tained a facility for observing the verbal peculiarities and customs of each district which, perhaps, no other individual ever possessed, while from a love of every branch of natural history I have always been eager to note the local names connected with it. N one could have felt more deeply interested in the pursuit, and what would otherwise have been a toilsome task, has proved to me the pleasurable employment of more than twenty years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.