Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-02-17 | Page 26 | Noted Philologist of England Has Birthday

I Noted Philologist of England Has Birthday OXFORD England Feb 17 11 AP P Dr Joseph Wright one of ot England's England's England's En En- glands gland's most mot noted celebrated cl his bia f seventY seventy-second birth birth- birthday day day by presenting to tho the library of ot T Thack ackley his birthplace near Bradford Brad Drad- ford a set et of ot hL MX dialect dictionary ary on which he Ile pent twenty-three twenty year yea years years' work Sixty ye years yeeN r a ago q-o ro Dr Wright wait wa was wasn it n boy in a Yorkshire mill earning 80 cents cent a n. week WHir Until he wa was waa 15 he Iii could neither read nor write Dr Wright taught himself to road read and then became so 10 Interested in the English lan language e that he Regan be Re gan ran to study It intensely After many years yearn of work ork he ho w. w was appointed ap ap- pointed proteaN professor c l' l of at comparative philology at Oxford university lily Ufa dialect dictionary contains contain a a. complete complete com corn vocabulary of th thA dialect words still sUIl In u use e In J England Ireland Ire Ire- land Scotland and Wales Vales les covering the the sat last 00 years yean