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The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words
David Crystal
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| #4408607 in Books | imusti | 2016-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.70 x5.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | First Thus and First Printing||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A delight for word people|By M. F. Crowl|Thoroughly enjoyable book. Not only does it give definitions of many wonderful words not used by everyday English speakers (though not entirely forgotten in dialects) but it adds in sentences and phrases in which they get used. My wife and I were laughing out loud at some of these while waiting in the Eye Clinic the other day... A d|About the Author|
David Crystal is a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster who has published extensively on the history and development of English, including How Language Works, Shakespeare's Words, Spell It Out and The Stor
dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?'
fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way.
squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'.
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