The Yorkshire society is the oldest of the county dialect societies; it grew out of the committee of workers formed to collect material for the " English Dialect Dictionary ".
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Her knowledge of folklore was utilised by Joseph Wright in his " English Dialect Dictionary ", to which she contributed her findings on the folklore of both Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
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Molbech also wrote various philological works, including " The Danish Dictionary " ( " Dansk Ordbog " 1828 1833 ) and the " Danish Dialect Dictionary " ( " Dansk Dialektleksikon 1833-1841 ).
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However, no English dictionary included such words, for fear of possible prosecution under British obscenity laws, until after the conclusion of the Joseph Wright's " English Dialect Dictionary " had included " shit " in 1905.
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Merriam-Webster bases its judgment on an entry in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary that treats canoodle as a Somerset noun meaning " donkey . . . . Used also figuratively of one who makes love foolishly or ` spoonies . "'
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He was also instrumental in conceptualizing, designing and implementing the compilation of " A Telugu Dialect Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies " in Andhra Pradesh, India, and so far over a dozen volumes covering different occupations and dialects have been published.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), " irregardless " was first acknowledged in 1912 by the " Wentworth American Dialect Dictionary " as originating from western Indiana, though the word was in use in South Carolina before Indiana became a territory.
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Various compilations of these maps for England have been issued over the years, including Joseph Wright's " English Dialect Dictionary " ( 1896 1905 ), the " Survey of English Dialects " ( 1962-8 ), and " The Linguistic Atlas of England " ( 1978 ).
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"The English Dialect Dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years; founded on the publications of the English Dialect Society and on a large amount of material never before printed " was published by Oxford University Press in 6 volumes between 1898 and 1905.
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He had a strong interest in English dialects and claimed that his 1892 book " A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill " was " the first grammar of its kind in England . " Undoubtedly, his greatest achievement was the editing of the six-volume " English Dialect Dictionary ", which he published between 1898 and 1905, initially at his own expense.
