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Gentleman's Magazine 1866 part 1 p.217

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.

Dec. 20. - Sir PATRICK COLQUHOUN, LL.D. in the chair.
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The Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, F.R.S.L., read observtions "On a MS. Glossary on the Dialect of Cumberland and Westmoreland," in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, drawn up by Archbishop Nicolson, the author of the "Historical Library," with the laudable object of showing that the dialect was not so barbarous as the English of the south imagined. A very interesting discussion followed these remarks, upon several derivations advanced, in which the Chairman, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Nash, Mr. Birch, and Mr. Beresford took part. ...
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