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• The vocabulary of Dan Michel's Ayenbite of inwyt; a phonological, morphological, etymological, semasiological and textual study (Appelbergs boktryckeri aktiebolag, 1923), by Johannes Knut Wallenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the County of Kent (Farncombe, 1888), by W. D. Parish and W. F. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original glossaries, and glossaries with fresh additions. III. II. Cleveland words (supplementary); by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson. III. An alphabet of Kenticisms; by the Rev. S. Pegge; A.D. 1736. IV. Surrey Provincialisms; by G. Leveson Gower, esq. V. Oxfordshire words; by Mrs. Parker. VI. South-Warwickshire words; by Mrs. Francis (Pub. for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner & Co., 1876), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the county of Kent. (Pub. for the English dialect society by Trübner & co., 1887), by W. D. Parish, John White Masters, and W. F. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The poems of William of Shoreham, ab. 1320 vicar of Chart-Sutton. (Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Limited, 1902), by of Shoreham William, Matthias Konrath, and British Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore, by Elizabeth Mary Wright (Gutenberg ebook)

• A grammar of the dialect of Adlington (Lancashire) (C. Winters̓ Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1904), by Alexander Hargreaves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An attempt at a glossary of Cheshire words. (Printed for R. Todd, 1826), by Roger Wilbraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt at a glossary of some words used in Cheshire. Communicated to the Society of antiquaries (Printed for T. Rodd, 1826), by Roger Wilbraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt at a glossary of some words used in Cheshire-- (E. Lumley, 1836), by Roger Wilbraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt at a glossary of some words used in Cheshire (Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1820), by Roger Wilbraham (page images at HathiTrust)

• A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical. (J.R. Smith, 1868), by J. C. Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Randigal rhymes, and a glossary of Cornish words. (F. Rodda, 1895), by Joseph Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cornish tales, in prose and verse, with a glossary. (Netherton & Worth, 1873), by I. T. Tregellas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cornish tales, in prose and verse, with a glossary. (Truro, 1865), by I. T. Tregellas (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall : with an enlarged glossary. (AMS Press, 1983), by Frederick W. P. Jago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glossary of the Cornish dialect (Netherton & Worth, 1882), by Fred. W. P. Jago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cornish tales, in prose and verse (Netherton and Worth, 1890), by I. T. Tregellas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glossary of words in use in Cornwall. (Pub. for the English dialect society, by Trübner & co., 1880), by M. A. Courtney, Thomas Couch, and Thomas Quiller Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the West Countree; original studies of rural life in Devon and Cornwall, in verse and prose. (Besley and Dalgleish ltd., 1908), by W. Gregory Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) dialect (J.R. Smith, 1868), by Richard Webster Huntley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Horæ momenta cravenæ, or, The Craven dialect, exemplified in two dialogues, between farmer Giles and his neighbour Bridget. To which is annexed a copious glossary. (Hurst, Robinson and co.; [etc., etc.], 1824), by William Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the county of York (Printed for W. Crofts; [etc., etc.], 1828), by William Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craven dialect : exemplified in a dialogue between Farmer Giles and his neighbour Bridget (Printed and sold by J. Tasker, 1834), by J. Tasker and William Carr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lakeland words; a collection of dialect words and phrases, as used in Cumberland and Westmoreland, with illustrative sentences in the North Westmorland dialect. (Printed by T. Wilson, 1898), by B. Kirkby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of the words and phrases pertaining to the dialect of Cumberland (Bemrose and sons; [etc., etc., 1899), by William Dickinson, Simon Dickson Brown, and Edward William Prevost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dialogues, poems, songs, and ballads (J.R. Smith, 1839), by Ann Coward Wheeler (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)
• A supplement to the glossary of the dialect of Cumberland (H. Frowde, Bemrose & Sons, 1905), by E. W. Prevost, William Dickinson, and S. Dickson Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect (Printed for H.K. Snowden; sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1828), by R. Anderson and Thomas Sanderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works; to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself; an essay on the character, manners, and customs of the peasantry of Cumberland; and observations on the style and genius of the author (B. Scott, 1820), by R. Anderson and Thomas Sanderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of the words and phrases of Cumberland. (Callander & Dixon;, 1859), by William Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of provincial words used in the county of Cumberland. (J.G. Bell, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems (Printed by and for J. Mitchell, 1798), by Josiah Relph, J. Mitchell, and Thomas Bewick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The folk-speech of Cumberland and some districts adjacent; being short stories and rhymes in the dialects of the west border counties (Bemrose & sons, 1891), by Alexander Craig Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A miscellany of poems : consisting of original poems, translations, pastorals in the Cumberland dialect, familiar epistles, fables, songs, and epigrams (Printed by Robert Foulis for Mr. Thomlinson, 1747), by Josiah Relph (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)
• Lakeland and Iceland; being a glossary of words in the dialect of Cumberland, Westmoreland and north Lancashire which seem allied to or identical with the Icelandic or Norse, together with cognate place-names and surnames, and a supplement of words used in shepherding, folk-lore and antiquities (Pub. for the English dialect society by H. Frowde, Oxford university press, 1895), by T. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The folk-speech of Cumberland and some districts adjacent; being short stories and rhymes in the dialects of the west border counties. (Bemrose & sons; Carlisle, G. & T. Coward, 1880), by Alexander Craig Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The folk-speech of Cumberland and some districts adjacent; being short stories and rhymes in the dialects of the West border counties ... (J.R. Smith, etc., etc., 1869), by Alexander Craig Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Landnama book of Iceland as it illustrates the dialect, place names, folk lore, & antiquities of Cumberland, Westmorland,and North Lancashire. (T. Wilson, Printer, Highgate, 1894), by T. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect (B. Crosby and co.; [etc., etc.], 1808), by R. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anderson's Cumberland ballads and songs. (W. Holmes, 1904), by R. Anderson and T. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, with notes, a glossary, and a biographical sketch of the author. (Ismay, 1834), by R. Anderson (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)
• 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)
• Specimens of the dialect of Westmorland. (Atkinson and Pollitt, 1887), by Thomas Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Jim an' Nell" von W. F. Rock. Eine Studie zum Dialekt von Devonshire. (G. Uschmann; etc., etc., 1920), by Hans Wiegert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect, (in three parts) (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman;, 1837), by Mary Palmer and James F. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Exmoor scolding : in the propriety & decency of Exmoor language between two sisters, Wilmot Moreman & Thomasin Moreman, as they were spinning : also, An Exmoor courtship. (Reprinted from an edition of 1771, by Penny & Son, 1818), by William Hole, Benjamin Bowring, Andrew Brice, and Peter Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Somerset word-book; a glossary of dialectcal and archaic words and phrases used in the west of Somerset and east Devon. (For the English Dialect Society, Trübner, 1888), by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Exmoor scolding : in the propriety and decency of Exmoor language, between two sisters ... : also, an Exmoor courtship : together with notes, and a vocabulary ... (B. Thorn & Sons, 1782), by Peter Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The peasant speech of Devon. (E. Stock, 1892), by Sarah Hewett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman;, 1837), by Mary Palmer and James F. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the West Countree; original studies of rural life in Devon and Cornwall, in verse and prose. (Besley and Dalgleish ltd., 1908), by W. Gregory Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Jim an' Nell" (Mayer & Mu ller, g. m. b. h., 1921), by Hans Wiegert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Exmoor scolding and Courtship : (two dialogues of the beginning of the XVIII. century) : also The Somersetshire man's complaint (a poem of a full century earlier) ; the original texts edited, collated, and arranged, with a complete transcript in glossic, the vocabulary enlarged, and the whole illustrated with copious notes (Printed by Clay and Taylor, 1879), by Frederic Thomas Elworthy and Peter Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die verwendung der mundart in Blackmores romanen (Im selbstverlag des Englischen seminars der Universität Giessen, 1923), by Katharina Caspar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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