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Pegge, Samuel

Two collections of Derbicisms : containing words and phrases in a great measure peculiar to the natives and inhabitants of the county of Derby / by Samuel Pegge; edited, with two introductions, by the Rev. Professor Skeat and Thomas Hallam. - London : Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896. - 138 p. ; 23 cm. - English dialect society. no. 78 .

Forms with W. W. Skeat's Nine specimens of English dialects [Publications. no. 76] vol. XXXII of the society's Publications. Edited from a manuscript (ca. 1751-91) in possession of Skeat. "Introduction: part II" by Thomas Hallam, includes a sketch of "Whittington and district", a "Memoir of the Rev. Dr. Pegge" by his son Samuel, and an "Account of his writings" p. li-lvi)

"Books referred to": p. xx-xxii.

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