678. Bearing of the investigation 531 679. Structural and _ethnological_ views 531 680-682. Causes that effect change 532 683, 684. Preliminary notices 533 685. Philological preliminaries 533 686, 687. Present provincial dialects 534-540 688-691. Caution 540-544 {xlii} 692-696. Districts north of the Humber 545-552 697. South Lancashire 552 698. Shropshire, &c. 553 699. East Derbyshire, &c. 553 700. Norfolk and Suffolk 554 701. Leicestershire, &c. 555 702. Origin of the present written language 555 703. Dialects of the Lower Thames 556 704. Kent--Frisian theory 557 705. Sussex, &c. 559 706. Supposed East Anglian and Saxon frontier 560 707. Dialects of remaining counties 560 708. Objections 561 709. Dialect of Gower 561 710. ---- the Barony of Forth 563 711. Americanisms 565 712. Extract from a paper of Mr. Watts 566 713. Gypsy language, &c. 572 714. _Talkee-talkee_ 573 715, 716. Varieties of the Anglo-Norman 574 717-719. Extracts from Mr. Kemble 575-580 PRAXIS 581 * * * * * {1} AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE * * * * * PART I. GENERAL ETHNOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. -------- CHAPTER I. GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.--DATE.