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Dictionary of Surrey English

A New Edition of "A Glossary of Surrey Words</I> by Granville Leveson Gower

by Graeme Davis (Volume editor)
©2007 Others 188 Pages

Summary

The dialect of the English county of Surrey was recorded towards the end of the Victorian age by the antiquarian Granville Leveson Gower in a volume for the English Dialect Society. This present Dictionary makes available a new edition of his work, along with materials setting out the characteristics, history and current position of Surrey English. Today little remains of the traditional Surrey dialect, though those familiar with the county will nonetheless find echoes of it in the speech of many present inhabitants. In recent years the dialect has influenced the speech patterns of the Home Counties, and the new southern English standard has been influential worldwide. Surrey English has its place as one of the many distinctive forms of English worldwide, with its own unique words and forms of expression which are part of the rich heritage of the English language.

Details

Pages
188
Publication Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039110810
Language
English
Keywords
Mundart Dialect Speech pattern Home County Expression Geschichte Surrey
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 188 pp.

Biographical notes

Graeme Davis (Volume editor)

The Author: Graeme Davis is a mediaeval linguist specialising in the languages and cultures of northern Europe and the North Atlantic: Anglo-Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse / Icelandic, Gothic. He has lectured in historical linguistics and mediaeval literature at Strathclyde, Manchester Metropolitan, Northumbria and The Open universities, and worked as a lexicographer for the Scottish National Dictionary.

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