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DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

Author: Alexander Craig Gibson (1813-1874)

Text type: Prose and Verse

Date of composition: 1869

Editions: 1869, 1873, 1880, 1891, 2007

Source text:

Craig Gibson, Alexander. 1869. The Folk Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties. London: John Russell Smith.

e-text:

           Access and transcription: July 2011

           Format: MS Word   Pdf

           Number of words: 41,390

            Dialect represented: Cumberland and Westmoreland

            Produced by Pilar Sánchez-García

Alexander Craig Gibson

(1813-1874)