Produced by David Starner, Louise Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. {Transcriber's Note: All square brackets [] are from the original text. Braces {} ("curly brackets") are supplied by the transcriber. Characters that could not be fully expressed are "unpacked" and shown within braces, top to bottom. Examples: {e} vowel with dieresis (looks like umlaut symbol) _German umlaut_ is written out: ae, ue, oe _French accents_ are omitted {ae} {oe} ae, oe ligatures {'e} vowel with accent {)e} vowel with breve (short-vowel sign) {th} {dh} thorn, edh {P} paragraph symbol } CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London: Fetter Lane, E.C. C. F. CLAY, Manager {Illustration: Coat of Arms} Edinburgh: 100, Princes Street Berlin: A. Asher and Co. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Bombay and Calcutta: Macmillan and Co., Ltd _All rights reserved_ * * * * * {Illustration: Decorative Title Page encompassing all text from "English Dialects" through "1912"} ENGLISH DIALECTS From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by the REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, Litt.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D., F.B.A. Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fel- low of Christ's College. Founder and formerly Director of the English Dialect Society "English in the native garb;" _K. Henry V._ V. 1. 80 Cambridge at the University Press 1912 Kraus Reprint Co. New York * * * * * With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521 _First Edition_ 1911. _Reprinted_ 1912. * * * * * PREFACE