Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In this book, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delight…
Barrelhouse words: a blues dialect dictionary
by ebrary, Inc, Calt, Stephen, Gerard, Manny
"This compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the…
An entertaining guide that explains hundreds of local words not found in an ordinary dictionary. From dardledumdue, which means 'day- dreamer' in East Anglia, through forkin robins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it covers the rich…
An entertaining guide that explains hundreds of local words not found in an ordinary dictionary. From dardledumdue, which means 'day- dreamer' in East Anglia, through forkin robins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it covers the rich…