XIII.–ON THE DIALECTS OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE, WORCESTERSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BERKSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE, SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE, SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE, MIDDLESEX, AND SURREY, WITH A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH DIALECTS.
1876; Wiley; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-968x.1876.tb00070.x
ISSN1467-968X
AutoresPrince Louis, Lucien Bonaparte,
ResumoDURING the summer of the past year I made several excursions in some of the English counties, with the object of ascertaining the general nature of the dialect thereip spoken amongst the uncultivated peassnts.The result I have obtained has been rather contrary to what I expected to find, and has obliged me to modify my previous dassifkation.The parts of England which I have made the subject of my late linguistical researches, are the f6Uowing :-Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, South Warwickshire, South Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Surrey.In all the County of Monmouth I have found English the language of the majority of the natives; but while in some of the western parishes the Welsh is still spoken by an important minority, in other parishes, particularly the eastern, it is sometimes very difEcult, though not impossible, to find even a very few Welsh-speaking individuals.The Welsh spoken in Monmouthshire is very similar to that of Glamorgan and Brecknockshire.For what concerns the Monmouthshire vulgar English, it is rather an independent sub-dialect of the Western English than anything else.'This sub-dialect extends into the south-west border of Herefordshire.A specimen of the Abergavenny Monmouthshire English has * See that part of TI. on the accompanying map, which liea in Monmouth-
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