A word geography of England

by Harold Orton, Nathalia Wright

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London: Seminar Press, 1974. Large 4to, pp. xv, 302; along exclusively comprised of black and white maps; original green cloth over boards in white pictorial dustjacket some soiling , shelf wear along edges, interior fine. Each map shows areas of lexical distribution, i.e. regions characterized by the employment of an individual word p. 3 ; that is, each map depicts the local usage of certain everyday words and their variants, such as son vs. lad, jump vs.

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