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| Title | The Dialect of the West of England: Particularly Somersetshire |
| Author | James Jennings |
| Editor | James Jennings |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Smith, 1869 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 167 pages |
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