Monthly Archives: October 2014

Sennight a dialect word?

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

This week, in the MA course on Late Modern English letters I teach, we read an article by Frances Austin about how William Clift (1775-1849) quickly lost any traces of his original dialect when he moved from his native Bodmin … Continue reading →

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