On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being the Substance of Two Papers, Read Before the Philological Society, Nov; 5, and Nov; 19, 1857 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Spong' is now a Suffolk, or, it may be, an East Anglian, word. Halliwell deals with it as thus provincial, and rightly describes it as an irregular narrow and projecting part of a field corresponding, therefore, very nearly to the 'sling,' 'slang,' or 'slinget,' of some of our Midland counties. Our Dictionaries know nothing of it; nor should they take note of it on the score of its present provincial existence; but they should on the ground that it once had free course in our literary English, being often used by Fuller.l Once more, take the verb 'to hazle.' Halliwell and Wright explain it rightly as the first process in drying washed linen, and assign to it also East Anglia as the region where it is current; but it was once not East Anglian, but English, as a noble passage, of which I cite a few words, from a great but little-known divine, will prove}z Then, once more, the verb to flaite,' signifying to scare, to terrify, and standing in the same relation to 'flit' that fugare' does to fugere' - this may be, as our glossaries tell us, a word of the North Country now; but it was a word of the whole country once, and as such should have found place not in our glossaries alone, but in our Dictionaries no less.3 To hopple' (the word is not in Richardson), Todd gives as a northern word, and without example. Supposing he was right in saying so, he had no business to give it at all; but he is not; for it is employed by Henry More.' Dozzled' our archaic glossaries assign to the Eastern Counties.

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