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We all listened with interest, a year ago, to the very important paper of our President, Senator Hoar, on the Obligations of New England to the English County of Kent. He therein stated that he could give but little time to the contributions of Kent to New England speech; and the facts that he gave on this point were taken so far as they went, from the Provincial Dictionary of Holloway, published in 1838. I have thought that it might interest the Society to follow up his contribution by a careful examination of two earlier dictionaries, since the gradual introduction of phrases is a subject into which the element of time of course enters largely; the farther back we go, the less the opportunity for the threads of local dialect to have become intertwined. For this purpose I have selected the Provincial Glossary of the well-known Captain Francis Grose, a book first published in 1787, and of which my copy is the second edition in 1790, containing some additions. It is a book that has attained a less painful eminence than this author's exceedingly disreputable Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published seven years earlier, but it is, like that, a landmark in its way. Grose is immortalized in Burns's lines: "Ken ye aught o' Captain Grose? Igo and ago; If he's amang his friends or foes? And it is pleasant to see that Grose, himself, kindly pats upon the shoulder his then humble boon-companion, |