Excerpt from A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in WiltshireBearing this bitter sarcasm in lively remem brance, I trust I have not gone too far for derivations m the list of provincial words which follows, and that my anxiety to prove them Will not provoke the censure or the ridicule of the critic and the scholar.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.