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 THE GEOGRAPHICAL OR ETHNOLOGICAL POSITION OF SHEFFIELD AS REGARDS DIALECT.

In order to determine in some degree the elements which have entered into the composition of the dialect spoken in this district, it may be useful to give a sketch of the position which Sheffield occupied before the Norman Conquest.

About six miles to the south-west of Sheffield, towards the high moors, is a little place called Ringinglowe. Immediately above it, still higher up, is a stretch of moorland called White Moss. In this moss, or moor, a stream rises which on modern maps is called Limb (properly Lim) Brook. The brook flows through Whirlow, and under Whirlow Bridge. It passes through a narrow valley, now oddly known as Ryecroft Glen (there are no glens in Mid-England), and then, crossing under the Abbeydale Road, it meets another