Excerpt from A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire Far be it from me to attempt in the least to depreciate the wonderful powers displayed by Dr. Johnson in his Dictionary, although it is now pretty well ascertained that he was himself much dissatisfied with it; but as an Etymological Dictionary, it certainly has no claim whatever to praise 3 for the learning Of Dr. Johnson, extensive as it was, yet did not embrace a knowledge Of the Gothic, Teutonic, or anglo-saxon languages, nor of the other various Northern sources Of our language; and moreover, he seems to have had very little acquaintance with the Old French or Norman languages. By following the traces Of Junius and Of Skinner, he has indeed, though not very successfully, attempted to supply the former deficiency but to remedy the latter, namely, his ignorance of the Old French language, was not so easy a task, his own labour and industry in that branch of learning being absolutely necessary, as there is scarcely, a single Lexicographer of the English tongue, who, though aiming at Etymology, seems to have possessed a competent knowledge Of the old French language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.