CHAPTER VI

ARCHAIC MEANINGS AND FORMS IN THE DIALECTS

Old meanings of standard English words surviving in the dialects 77-84 Historical forms surviving in the dialects 84-86 Old grammatical distinctions preserved in the dialects 87-89 Regular forms in the dialects compared with irregularities in standard English 90-91 Doublets, such as: challenge beside the dialect form _callenge_, &c. 92-94 Variants due to Scandinavian borrowings 94-95