Description

This fascinating text contains a detailed treatise on the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This text is written with the aim of supplying specialists in English philology with an accurate account of the phonology and accidence of one of the most interesting of the Yorkshire dialects, comprising a comprehensive list of the words which are in common use in the dialect and also existent in the literary language. Chapters included within this text are: Pronunciation; The Old English Equivalents of the Windhill Vowels in Accented Syllables; The Vowels treated historically--The Vowels of Accented Syllables; The French Element--The Vowels; The Vowels in Unaccented Syllables; The Consonants; Nouns; Adjectives; et cetera. This rare antiquarian book was originally published in 1892, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.