Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 56
... expression is still usual enough " Our Jo Bella " signifying " brother Jo's wife , Bella . Any mention of the modern people would be incomplete without some account of that peculiar section called the potters — a pheno- menon in ...
... expression is still usual enough " Our Jo Bella " signifying " brother Jo's wife , Bella . Any mention of the modern people would be incomplete without some account of that peculiar section called the potters — a pheno- menon in ...
Side 67
... expression of this feeling of nation- ality . It is the fate of unwritten language , thus to divide and subdivide itself into dialects . Written language comes in as a check to this disruption , but not until every district - it might ...
... expression of this feeling of nation- ality . It is the fate of unwritten language , thus to divide and subdivide itself into dialects . Written language comes in as a check to this disruption , but not until every district - it might ...
Side 72
... expression as a y in gyate ( gate ) , hyame ( home ) , and even attaching itself to the initial vowel , or rather enjoying an independent existence in yell ( ale ) , Yamon ( Eamont ) . With all but the guttural consonants this expression ...
... expression as a y in gyate ( gate ) , hyame ( home ) , and even attaching itself to the initial vowel , or rather enjoying an independent existence in yell ( ale ) , Yamon ( Eamont ) . With all but the guttural consonants this expression ...
Side 73
... expression could have no existence . Many words have developed the narrow expression to the extinction of the radical vowel , as in leaf , modern English " leave ; " and the gutturals have been in- fluenced by it in a remarkable manner ...
... expression could have no existence . Many words have developed the narrow expression to the extinction of the radical vowel , as in leaf , modern English " leave ; " and the gutturals have been in- fluenced by it in a remarkable manner ...
Side 74
... expression being perfectly audible in the pronunciation of such words as beer ( pr . bee - ur ) . On the contrary , the narrow C. vowel in pruve is difficult , if not impossible , to southern English organs . The comparison of Danish ...
... expression being perfectly audible in the pronunciation of such words as beer ( pr . bee - ur ) . On the contrary , the narrow C. vowel in pruve is difficult , if not impossible , to southern English organs . The comparison of Danish ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cultram Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton custom Danes Danish Denmark district doubt Eamont Edenhall England English euphonic Europe evidence existence fairies fell fire fireworship former German giants Gothic graves Hiberno-Celtic hill Iberian inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish language island Kendal kind Kirkby Kirkby Stephen Kirkby Thore Lancashire land language late latter Luck of Edenhall means mixed modern monument mountain names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation race remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Silures Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae