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• A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1924), by A. W. Moore, Edmund Goodwin, and Sophia Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)

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• English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day (reprint; originally printed Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Walter W. Skeat (Gutenberg text)
• The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
• Die mundart im Englischen drama von 1642-1800 (W. Engel, 1924), by Adolf Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das skandinavische element in den neuenglischen dialekten ... (A. Koch, 1914), by Georg Xandry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yorkshire folk-talk with characteristics of those who speak it in the North and East Ridings. (Henry Frowde;, 1892), by M. C. F. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yorkshire folk-talk; with characteristics of those who speak it in the north & east ridings. (Brown, 1911), by M. C. F. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialect of Craven, in the westriding of the County of York; with a copious glossary, illus. by authorities from ancient English & Scottish writers, & exemplified by two familiar dialogues. (Crofts, 1828), by William Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Austral English and slang. (Constable, 1898), by H. A. Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rustic speech and folk-lore (H. Milford, 1913), by Elizabeth Mary Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die dialekt- und ausländertypen des älteren englischen dramas. (A. Uystpruyst; [etc., etc.], 1910), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the history of the English present inflections (C. Winter, 1922), by Erik Ossian Holmqvist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern dialect words in California (American Dialect Society ;, 1954), by David W. Reed and Francis Wright Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Dehnung vor dehnenden Konsonantenverbindungen im Mittelenglischen, mit Berücksichtigung der neuenglischen Mundarten (M. Niemeyer, 1907), by Friedrich Eilers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forschungen zur frühzeit der neuenglischen schriftsprache (M. Niemeyer, 1922), by Hermann M. Flasdieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• English dialects from the eighth century to the present day (University press, 1912), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Londinismen (slang und cant) Wörterbuch der Londoner Volkssprache sowie der üblichsten Gauner-, Matrosen-, Sport- und Zunft-Ausdrücke; mit Einleitung und Musterstücken; ein Supplement zu allen englisch-deutschen Wörterbüchern (Langenscheidt, 1903), by H. Baumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of w- in Old English as seen in the Middle English dialects (Eranos' förlag; [etc.,etc., 1912), by Arvid Gabrielson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die soziale herkunft der neuzeitlichen dialektliteratur Englands (B. Tauchnitz, 1929), by Ernst Felix Hoevel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exmoor scolding und Exmoor courtship. Eine literarhistorische und sprachliche studie. (Mayer & Müller, 1913), by Bruno Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des ablaute der starken zeitwörter innerhalb des südenglischen ... (J. Bach wwe., 1888), by Karl D. Bülbring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bituminous coal mining vocabulary of the Eastern United States : a pilot study in the collecting of geographically distributed occupational vocabulary (1969), by Dennis Richard Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reprinted glossaries (Pub. for the English dialect society by Trübner & co., 1873), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die mundart im Englischen drama von 1642-1800 (Im selbstverlag des Englischen seminars der Universität Giessen, 1924), by Adolf Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lancashire dialect (H. Washbourne, 1845), by Tim Bobbin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems and miscellaneous pieces (W.F. Pratt, 1858), by John Castillo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cumberland & Westmorland, ancient and modern; the people, dialect, superstitions and customs. (Whittaker and co.; [etc., etc.], 1857), by J. Sullivan and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialect, proverbs and word-lore (E. Stock, 1886), by George Laurence Gomme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years (H. Frowde;, 1898), by Joseph Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das französische Element in den neuenglischen Dialekten. (Druckerei Gebr. Fey, 1911), by Alfred Bock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialektisches Englisch in Elisabethanischen dramen. (Halle a/S., 1884), by Emil Panning (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Westmoreland dialect in four familiar dialogues, in which an attempt is made to illustrate the provincial idiom. (J.R. Smith, 1840), by Ann Coward Wheeler and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on some of the dialects in the west of England, particularly Somersetshire: with a glossary of words now in use there; and poems and other pieces, exemplifying the dialect. (Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825), by James Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• English dialects from the eighth century to the present day (University Press, 1911), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialect, proverbs and work-lore (Houghton Mifflin, 1884), by George Laurence Gomme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rustic sketches : being rhymes on angling and other subjects illustrative of rural life, &c., in the dialect of the West of England ; with notes and a glossary (J.G. Bell, 1853), by George Philip Rigney Pulman, Daniel B. Fearing, and Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of the words and phrases of Furness (North Lancashire) (J. Russell Smith, 1869), by James P. Morris and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westmoreland and Cumberland dialects. Dialogues, poems, songs, and ballads (John Russell Smith, 1839), by John Russell Smith, R. G. Latham, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialektisches Englisch in Elizabethanischen Dramen. (Halle, a. S., 1884), by Emil Panning (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical sketch of the provincial dialects of England : illustrated by numerous examples (J. Munsell, 1863), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, a handbook for visitors and residents; with chapters on the archaeology, natural history, &c., of the district; a history, with statistics, of the east coast herring fishery, and an etymological and comparative glossary of the dialect of East Anglia. (Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1866), by John Greaves Nall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rustic speech and folk-lore (Oxford University Press, 1914), by Elizabeth Mary Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the survival of early English words in our present dialects. (Pub. for the English dialect society by Trübner & co., 1876), by Richard Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years : founded on the publications of the English dialect society and on a large amount of material never before printed. (H. Frowde ;, 1898), by Joseph Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of the dialect of the hundred of Lonsdale, north and south of the sands in the county of Lancaster, together with an essay On some leading characteristics of the dialects spoken in the six northern counties of England (ancient Northumbria)... (Philological society, 1869), by Robert Backhouse Peacock and J. C. Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhymes in the West of England dialect (Leech and Taylor, 1872), by Agrikler and John Francis Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tennysons Dialektdichtungen, nebst einer Übersicht über den Gebrauch des Dialekts in der englischen Literatur vor Tennyson. (R. Wagner, 1917), by Ernest Bussmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yorkshire anthology: ballads & songs ancient & modern, (with several hundred real epitaphs,) covering a period of a thousand years of Yorkshire history in verse; with notes bibliographical, biographical, topographical, dialectic &c., and quaint and original illus. (Printed for the editor by T. Harrison, 1901), by J. Horsfall Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court leet records, v. 1, pt. 1-3, A.D. 1550-1624. (H.M. Gilbert & Son, 1905), by Southampton (England). Court Leet, J. S. Westlake, W. F. Masom, D. M. Hearnshaw, and F. J. C. Hearnshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.; printed at the Oxford University Press, 1898), by Joseph Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pidgin-English sing-song, or, Songs and stories in the China-English dialect (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1904), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norse elements in English dialects. (A survey of the study) (n.p., 1911), by George T. Flom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English dialect grammar comprising the dialects of England, of the Orkney Islands, and of those parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is habitually spoken (H. Frowde, 1905), by Joseph Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern English; phonetics, grammar, & texts. (Leipzig, 1899), by Richard John Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Südnorthumbrische Mundart des 10. Jahrhunderts (P. Hanstein, 1901), by Uno Lindelöf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialektisches englisch in elisabethanisch dramen. Inaug.-diss. (Halle a S., 1884), by Emil Panning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine specimens of English dialects (Pub. for the English dialect society by H. Frowde, Oxford university press, 1896), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der dialekt von Stokesley in Yorkshire, North-Riding. (Mayer & Müller, 1914), by Willi Klein, Tom Cole Tweddell, and Elizabeth Tweddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cockney Engels en kombuis Hollands (Argus, 1920), by C. M. Drennan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical sketch of the provincial dialects of England : illustrated by numerous examples (J. Munsell, 1991), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• An etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect : with some derivations of names of places in Shetland (Asher, 1866), by Thomas Edmondston and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study in the Warwickshire dialect, with a glossary and notes touching the Edward the Sixth grammar schools and the Elizabethan pronunciation as deduced from the puns in Shakespeare's plays, and as to influences which may have shaped the Shakespeare vocabulary (The Shakespeare press; [etc., etc.], 1899), by Appleton Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Tim Bobbin [pseud] in prose and verse with a memoir of the author by J. Corry; to which is added a rendering into simple English of the Dialogue of Tummus and Meary, with the idioms and similes retained and explanatory notes, etc. (J. Heywood;, 1862), by Tim Bobbin and John Corry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches in the Westmorland dialect, with some secimens of fell-side philosophy and a chapter on "Westmorland" (Printed by T. Wilson, 1900), by B. Kirby and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the Westmorland dialect; consisting of T' reysh bearin, and Jonny Shippard's journa to Lunnan (Printed by T. Atkinson, 1865), by Robert Southey, Thomas Clarke, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect. With notes descriptive of the manners and customs of the Cumberland peasantry, a glossary of local words, and a life of the author. (W. Davison, 1840), by R. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary; or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced. (J.C. Hotten, 1864), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four dialect words. Clem, lake, nesh, and oss, their modern dialectal rang, meanings, pronunciation, etymology, and early or literary use. (Pub. for the English dialect society by Trübner & co., 1885), by Thomas Hallam (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Publications]. Series A, Biographical. (London, 1873), by English Dialect Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wold ways a guain, scenes from a western countryside. (The western gazette etc. co., ltd., 1914), by John Read (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scottish earth (Hodder and Stoughton, 1923), by John Smellie Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The shoeing of Jerry-Go-Nimble : and other dialect poems (John Lane the Bodley Head, 1926), by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Supplement to Court leet records, vol. I.A.D. 1550-1624, containing Glossary of select terms, Notes on syntax and dialect, and indexes. (Cox & Sharland, 1908), by Southampton (England). Court Leet, J. S. Westlake, William Frederich Masom, D. M. Hearnshaw, and F. J. C. Hearnshaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The southern R (The Independent press, 1910), by William A. Read (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and Other Poems: With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect, by John Castillo (Gutenberg ebook)
• A new dictionary of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers [sic], thieves, cheats &c., with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches &c. : useful for all sorts of people (especially foreigners) to secure their money and preserve their lives ; besides very diverting and entertaining being wholly new / by B.E. (London : Printed for W. Hawes ..., P. Gilbourne ..., and W. Davis ..., [1699]), by B. E. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect as it is now commonly spoken in the north parts of York-shire : being a miscellaneous discourse, or hotchpotch of several country affairs, begun by a daughter and her mother, and continued by the father, son, uncle, neese, and land-lord ... (York : Printed by John White and are to be sold by Richard Lambert ..., 1683), by George Meriton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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