Somersetshire

DING 2012: “The first English-born editor of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, he wrote two papers about the Somerset dialect in 1855 and 1856 respectively. He was born and raised at Wellington, Somersetshire.”

Works

1861. The Somersetshire Dialect: its pronunciation. Two papers read before the Archaeological Society of Somersetshire. Reprinted, with permission, from the Taunton Courier of Dec. 26, 1855, and Jan. 30, 1856. London: Impensis Louis Lucien Bonaparte.

KingKong Project

For further information about his life and works, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Spencer_Baynes

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/56905/Thomas-Spencer-Baynes

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