In his " Barrelhouse Words : A Blues Dialect Dictionary"
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Today this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.
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The variant " feck " appeared in the " English Dialect Dictionary ", compiled by Joseph Wright in 1900.
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It is listed, with an earliest instance in 1837, by Joseph Wright in his 1905 The English Dialect Dictionary.
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"Skinch " or " skinge " predominated in Northumberland and Durham, another term first recorded in a nineteenth-century dialect dictionary.
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However, Wright opted to stay in Oxford and finish the " Dialect Dictionary " without any financial backing from a sponsor.
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Says Michael Montgomery, of the University of South Carolina, now writing a Smoky Mountains dialect dictionary : " Popular speech is really quite conservative.
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In response to mounting criticism from British newspapers, the board announced the additions of comparative philology and editor of the " English Dialect Dictionary ".
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The society's purpose was to collect materials for the publication of the " English Dialect Dictionary "; the purpose of the society having been achieved, it was dissolved in 1897.
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Charles Moore Watson ( 1844 1916 ) proposes an alternative etymology : " The Assize of Weights and Measures " ( also known as " balance in Wright's Dialect Dictionary.