Excerpt from Reprinted Glossaries, Vol. 1: I. North of England Words, From "a Tour to the Caves," by J. H., 1781; II. Provincialisms of East Yorkshire, by Mr. Marshall, 1788; III. Provincialisms of East Norfolk, by Mr. Marshall, 1787 Strange as this notion of our being all Welshmen may appear now, it was probably by no means peculiar to our Glossarist. This receives some illustration from the fact that, in the last century, we did not always call ourselves Englishmen, but often Britons, just as the Americans are commonly made to talk about Britishers and the British lion.' It is not worth while to multiply instances all can remember how Thomson declared that Britons never will be slaves, ' and how Campbell, in his stanzas on the threatened invasion in 1803 burst out with In a Briton's sweet home shall a spoiler abide? On the other hand, it is not improbable that the labours of the English Dialect Society may hereafter make it plain, that the amount of Welsh amongst our more homely words has been somewhat underrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.