Cheshire

DING 2012: “Born in Bowdon, Astrincham, Ch. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the English Dialect Society. He worked as an Assistant at Huddersfield College, as Principal at Lewes School, as Master at Liverpool College and was Principal of the Agricultural College at Aspartia, Carlisle. From the England and Wales Census we learn that in 1861 he was living in Brighton, Sx, in 1871 in Tiverton, Dev. and in 1881 in Ely St. Mary, Cam. He answered queries about the Cheshire dialect for Robert Holland, author of A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester (1886). He was an informant of Alexander John Ellis for the Cheshire dialect in his On the Existing Phonology of English Dialects (1889). He was among the first scholars to discuss pidgin and creole languages in his On Mixed Languages (1876). He treated among others Angloromani, Chinook Jargon, Sranan, Jamaican Creole, and African American English. ”

Works

Betty Bresskittle’s Pattens, or Sanshum Fair, A Cheshire-Mon’s Crack. 1879. Altrincham. Rpt. in Robert Holland. 1886. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester. London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner and Co.: 458-472.

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