List of books and other reliable sources of dialect words, phrases, stories and verse (listed by author’s surname)
Dictionaries and Glossaries
Brilioth, Prof. Borje A Grammar of the Dialect of Lorton (1913), Oxford.
Dickinson, William Cumberland Dialect Dictionary (1878). Edited & republished 2005, R. Byers.
Ferguson, Robert The Dialect of Cumberland (1873). Republished 1998. Llanerch.
Kirkby, Brigham Lakeland Words (1898). Republished 1975. EP Publishing.
Rollinson, Prof. William Life and Tradition in the Lake District (1981) Dalesman.
. — ditto — The Cumbrian Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore (1997)