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ANECDOTES

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OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE;

CHIEFLY REGARDING THE

LOCAL DIALECT OF LONDON

AND ITS ENVIRONS;

WHENCE IT WILL APPEAR THAT THE NATIVES OF THE METROPOLIS AND ITS
VICINITIES HAVE NOT CORRUPTED THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR ANCESTORS.

IN A LETTER FROM

SAMUEL PEGGE, Esq. F.S.A.

TO AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE, AND CO-FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES,
LONDON.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A SUPPLEMENT TO GROSE'S "PROVINCIAL GLOSSARY."

THE THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED AND CORRECTED.

EDITED BY THE

REV. HENRY CHRISTMAS, M.A.

F.R.S., F.S.A., D.C.L.

Late of St. John's College, Cambridge; Member of the Numismatic Society; Member of the
Archæological Society of Spain; Librarian and Secretary of Sion College; Minister
of Verulam Chapel, Lambeth; Editor of the works of Bishop Ridley;
Author of "Universal Mythology, &c. &c. &c.

"Our sparkeful youth laugh at their great-grand-father's English; who had
more care to do well, than to speake minion-like.”-CAMDEN'S REMAINS, p. 22.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SON,
25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

1844.

ENGLISH
CXFORD

LINEARY

TO EDWIN LEAF, ESQ.

&c. &c. &c.

MY DEAR LEAF,

THE pages which follow abound both with information and amusement. I know of none more competent to appreciate them than yourself; and none to whom, with sincerer feelings of regard and esteem, I could inscribe them.

Believe me,

My dear Leaf,

Ever yours faithfully,

Sion College, March, 1844.

HENRY CHRISTMAS.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION.

THE Editor has to acknowledge with thanks the notes furnished by the following gentlemen :

The Rev. James Bandinel, M.A.

The Rev. John Bathurst Deane, M.A., F.S.A.
James Orchard Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.
Edward Johnson, Esq., M.D.

James Startin, Esq., M.R.C.S.

The Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, M.A.

Also to W. B. Sams, Esq., for the use of a MS. of the late Horace, Earl of Orford, and for permission to transcribe it.

The following note by James Orchard Halliwell, Esq. was received too late to be inserted in its proper place, viz. at p. 21.

"The earliest instance of any interpretation of the word 'Cockney' occurs in a MS. of the 14th century, (MS. Bib. Reg. Brit. Mus. 12 B. j. fol. 14. Sec. XIV. ineuntis). Puer in deliciis matris nutritus, Anglice a Kokenay."

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