Word-Book

Green: Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech; Richmond, 1899, pp. 13-16.

Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 1. Surnames Henry Louis 1921

Romano Lavo-Lil:/Word-Book of the Romany;/or,/English Gypsy

A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Thomas James Wise 1898

Steering-sail, according to Admiral Smyth (_Sailors 'Word-Book_, p. 654), was' an incorrect name for a studding sail, 'but it seems to have been in common use in Nelson's time.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

"Word-Book of the Romany Language," "with many pieces in gypsy, illustrative of the way of speaking and thinking of the English gypsies, with specimens of their poetry, and an account of various things relating to gypsy life in England."

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

The meagreness of his knowledge of the Anglo-Gypsy dialect came out in his _Word-Book of the Romany_ (1874); there must have been over a dozen Englishmen who have known it far better than he.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

Wales_ (1862), and _Romano Lavo-Lil_: _the Word-Book of the Romany_

Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

In A Shakespeare Word-Book, Routledge 1908, John Foster offers (in part), following a passage from A Midsummer Night's Dream, II, i, 54:

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3 1986

According to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, bits and bobs is English Midlands dialect, while Partridge defines it as “miscellaneous small articles” (U.K., 1896), both of which appear to be drawing upon A Warwickshire Word-Book, which was compiled by G.F. Northall and published for the English Dialect Society in 1896.

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According to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, bits and bobs is English Midlands dialect, while Partridge defines it as “miscellaneous small articles” (U.K., 1896), both of which appear to be drawing upon A Warwickshire Word-Book, which was compiled by G.F. Northall and published for the English Dialect Society in 1896.

Bits and Bobs 2009

Romano Lavo-Lil: Word-Book of Romany; or, English Gypsy Language.

The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912