Westmoreland and Cumberland dialects. Dialogues, poems, songs, and ballads, by various writers, in the Westmoreland and Cumberland dialects, now first collected |
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| Title | Westmoreland and Cumberland dialects. Dialogues, poems, songs, and ballads, by various writers, in the Westmoreland and Cumberland dialects, now first collected |
| Author | Westmorland dialect |
| Publisher | John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho., 1839 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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