as a source of linguistic data, since they preserve details often absent from written texts. Over time, this work helped establish dialects as objects of study in their own right.

English dialects

In London, there were comments on the different dialects recorded in 12th-century sources, and a large number of dialect glossaries (focussing on vocabulary) were published in the 19th century. Philologists would also study dialects, as they preserved earlier forms of words.

In Britain,

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