Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore is a book by Elizabeth Mary Wright. It concerns dialect speech and lore used in countryside milieus, providing a survey for differen

This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general read

First published in 1904, this book contains the conclusions of a series of lectures exploring the moral and historical value of single words. The author argues