![]() ![]() 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 was published by Oxford University Press in 6 volumes between 18. Its compilation and printing was funded privately by Joseph Wright, a self-taught philologist at the University of Oxford.ĭue to the scale of the work, 70,000 entries, and the period in which the information was gathered, it is regarded as a standard work in the historical study of dialect. ![]() Wright marked annotations and corrections in a cut-up and rebound copy of the first edition this copy is among Wright's papers in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
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