THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS



ISLE OF WIGHT



DING 2012: "A bookseller by trade, he came from a farming family in Calbourne, I.W. He learnt the dialect as a child. He lived in Portsmouth since 1861. He was a member of the English Dialect Society.”


WORKS

1886. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the island; to which is appended the Christmas Boy's play, an Isle of Wight "Hooam Harvest", and songs sung by the peasantry; forming a treasury of insular manners and customs of fifty years ago. London: Reeves and Turner. EDD.


KINGKONG PROJECT

William Henry LONG (M: c1840 - 1896 Jun 11)


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

http://www.thedollymopps.co.uk/the-source-about-w-h-long


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VARIA 1800-1950

SOUTH

ISLE OF WIGHT

William Henry Long

(1839-1896)

William Henry Long's Grave.
William Henry Long's Grave.
A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect (1886)
A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect (1886)