Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 72
... existence in yell ( ale ) , Yamon ( Eamont ) . With all but the guttural consonants this expression is so developed as to be written e or ee , as in leaf ( loaf ) , neam ( name ) , pronounced almost in two syllables . The broad ...
... existence in yell ( ale ) , Yamon ( Eamont ) . With all but the guttural consonants this expression is so developed as to be written e or ee , as in leaf ( loaf ) , neam ( name ) , pronounced almost in two syllables . The broad ...
Side 73
... 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 . The L. caster became ...
... 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 . The L. caster became ...
Side 77
... existence , whilst on the contrary the euphonic use of the may be characterised as still living . Near Wigton , it has been observed , the initial vowel is invariably aspirated when it should not , whilst the aspirate is rejected from ...
... existence , whilst on the contrary the euphonic use of the may be characterised as still living . Near Wigton , it has been observed , the initial vowel is invariably aspirated when it should not , whilst the aspirate is rejected from ...
Side 101
... existence in the past , they show it to be the better worthy of future preservation . The writer always endeavours to give faithfully the dialect as he has heard and spoken it in his own neighbourhood , and the birthplace of the author ...
... existence in the past , they show it to be the better worthy of future preservation . The writer always endeavours to give faithfully the dialect as he has heard and spoken it in his own neighbourhood , and the birthplace of the author ...
Side 120
... existence alone is believed in , and when the fables connected therewith assume really gigantic proportions . Yet those historical fragments of the first period that have been handed down to us , are in general so mixed up with the ...
... existence alone is believed in , and when the fables connected therewith assume really gigantic proportions . Yet those historical fragments of the first period that have been handed down to us , are in general so mixed up with the ...
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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