Suffolk Words And Phrases Or An Attempt To Collect The Lingual Localisms Of That County Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Suffolk Words and Phrases, or an Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of That County I 1 has been said, that if Prefaces were interdicted, fewer books would be published. I believe this to be true - feeling, that were I prohibited ofl'er ing something introductory and apologetic, I should, on this occasion, refrain from appearing in the character of an author. Not that I presume to flatter myself, that if what I have written be un suited for publication, what I may thus prefix can render it less so. Nor is it my object to deprecate criticism - who, indeed, would think of breaking such a literary fly as this on the critical wheel? Still I wish to be allowed to explain how it has fallen to my lot to compile and put forth a work that so many others are more competent to. I, therefore, crave leave to enter on what I conceive to be a necessary preliminary explanation, which I hope will not be long or tedious. 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.