Sujet : William Barnes died (7/10/1886)
De : benlizro (at) *nospam* ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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"The Dorset Poet" (born 1801).
Wrote over 800 poems about his native county, in literary dialect.
Also an "amateur philologist", and was an advocate of Anglo-Saxon purism in vocabulary. Some of his words:
fore-say (preface)
speech-craft (grammar)
speech-lore (philology)
book-lore (literature)
thing-word (noun)
mark-word (adjective)
twin-word (synonym)
wordling (particle)
birdlore (ornithology)
unfrienden (alienate)..."anticipates social networking", saith Crystal.
William Barnes died (7/10/1886)