Cumbrian Lexis in the English Dialect Dictionary : William Nicolson’s Glossarium Brigantinum (1677) in Focus

Ruano–García, Javier

doi:10.1353/dic.2014.0008

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“…Therefore, they feature prominently amongst the sources listed in this section and have received scholarly attention (e.g. Beal, 2010; Ruano–García, 2014). On the other hand, we find a large number of documents that do not report on 18th and 19th-century dialects, yet provide historical insight into the words recorded, which were employed for etymological purposes or otherwise.…”

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The impact of Horae Subsecivae on the EDD's coverage of western words

Ruano–García

2021

English Today

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This paper examines the contribution of Horae Subsecivae to Joseph Wright's (1855–1930) English Dialect Dictionary (1896–1905) (EDD). Horae Subsecivae (‘spare hours’) is an obscure manuscript glossary that was possibly compiled by Robert Wight of Wotton-under-Edge in c.1777–78, and is now preserved amongst Wright's papers at the Bodleian Library as Bodl. MS Eng. lang. d. 66. Even though it has received little scholarly attention, Horae Subsecivae has a substantial dialect element, with a large number of words cited from Devonshire, Dorset, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. The manuscript went largely unnoticed by 18th- and 19th-century collections, and remains virtually unknown today perhaps owing to its extensive use of Latin, but it drew the attention of Joseph Wright, who employed it frequently to represent some western dialects. Drawing on the electronic version of the EDD (EDD Online; Markus, 2019a), the paper is situated within forensic dictionary analysis (Coleman & Ogilvie, 2009), which ‘uses evidence-based methodologies to interrogate the dictionaries themselves about decision-making processes involved in their compilation’ (1). In this framework, I combine archival material with quantitative and qualitative approaches to the data retrieved from EDD Online in order to ascertain the proportion of words that are cited from the manuscript, and to assess the treatment they are given. Attention is paid to their function in the context of the dictionary, labels, the western dialects about which the manuscript provides more extensive information, as well as the entries in which it is cited as the only source for words, ascriptions and senses. This paper highlights the outstanding contribution of Horae Subsecivae to the EDD, while stressing that it notably improves our knowledge of lexical variation in the dialects of the South West and the lower West Midlands. They can only benefit from further inspection as they ‘are neither as easily found nor as well researched as those of the north’ (Melchers, 2010: 82).

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The impact of Horae Subsecivae on the EDD's coverage of western words

Ruano–García

2021

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“Provincial in England, but in common use with us”

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Sánchez-García³

2015

Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

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Northern Ascriptions in MS Lansdowne 1033

Ruano–García

2015

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Summary This paper examines the contribution of the Dictionariolum Islandicum to White Kennett’s (1660–1728) unpublished Etymological Collections of English Words and Provincial Expressions (BL MS Lansdowne 1033). An expanded version of Franciscus Junius’s (1591–1677) Icelandic wordlist (Bodl. MS Junius 36), itself based on Runólfur Jónsson’s (c.1620–1654) Grammaticae Islandicae Rudimenta (1651), the Dictionariolum was included in George Hickes’ (1642–1715) Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae (1689). Comparison of the manuscript entries with the Dictionariolum suggests that Kennett relied on this work for a portion of the northern material contained in his manuscript. This paper aims to further our knowledge about the compilation of Kennett’s dictionary, casting some light on the sources behind the regional dialect material included, and on the history of northern English lexicon more generally as recorded in 17th-century dictionaries.

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Cumbrian Lexis in the English Dialect Dictionary : William Nicolson’s Glossarium Brigantinum (1677) in Focus

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

The impact of Horae Subsecivae on the EDD's coverage of western words

The impact of Horae Subsecivae on the EDD's coverage of western words

“Provincial in England, but in common use with us”

Northern Ascriptions in MS Lansdowne 1033

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