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Author: William Henry Long (1839-1896)

Text type: Glossary and Dialect Literature

Date of composition: 1886

Editions: 1886

Source text:

Long, William Henry. 1886. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the island; to which is appended the Christmas Boys’ 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.

e-text:

           Access and transcription: November 2012

           Format: MS Word   Pdf

           Number of words: 57,407

            Dialect represented: Isle of Wight

            Produced by   María F. García-Bermejo Giner & María Martín Bullón

William Henry Long

(1839-1896)