Excerpt from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore

Under the heading of The Varieties of English Speech an article of mine appeared in The Quarterly Review of July, 1907. The favourable reception accorded to it at the time prompted me to embark forthwith on a larger work dealing with the same subject.

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