This paper examines the contribution of Horae Subsecivae to Joseph Wright's (1855–1930) English Dialect Dictionary (1896–1905) (EDD). Horae Subsecivae (‘spare hours’) is an obscure manuscript glossary that was possibly compiled by Robert Wight of Wotton-under-Edge in c.1777–78, and is now preserved amongst Wright's papers at the Bodleian Library as Bodl. MS Eng. lang. d. 66. Even though it has received little scholarly attention, Horae Subsecivae has a substantial dialect element, with a large number of words cited from Devonshire, Dorset, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. The manuscript went largely unnoticed by 18th- and 19th-century collections, and remains virtually unknown today perhaps owing to its extensive use of Latin, but it drew the attention of Joseph Wright, who employed it frequently to represent some western dialects. Drawing on the electronic version of the EDD (EDD Online; Markus, 2019a), the paper is situated within forensic dictionary analysis (Coleman & Ogilvie, 2009), which ‘uses evidence-based methodologies to interrogate the dictionaries themselves about decision-making processes involved in their compilation’ (1). In this framework, I combine archival material with quantitative and qualitative approaches to the data retrieved from EDD Online in order to ascertain the proportion of words that are cited from the manuscript, and to assess the treatment they are given. Attention is paid to their function in the context of the dictionary, labels, the western dialects about which the manuscript provides more extensive information, as well as the entries in which it is cited as the only source for words, ascriptions and senses. This paper highlights the outstanding contribution of Horae Subsecivae to the EDD, while stressing that it notably improves our knowledge of lexical variation in the dialects of the South West and the lower West Midlands. They can only benefit from further inspection as they ‘are neither as easily found nor as well researched as those of the north’ (Melchers, 2010: 82).

本文考察了Horae Subsecivae对 Joseph Wright（1855-1930 年）英语方言词典（1896-1905 年）( EDD ) 的贡献。Horae Subsecivae（“空闲时间”）是一份不起眼的手稿词汇表，可能由 Wotton-under-Edge 的罗伯特·怀特 (Robert Wight) 于1777–78年编纂，现在作为博德 (Bodl) 保存在赖特 (Wright) 的论文中。工程硕士 郎。d. 66. 尽管它很少受到学术关注，但Horae Subsecivae具有大量的方言元素，其中引用了大量来自德文郡、多塞特郡、康沃尔郡、格洛斯特郡、萨默塞特郡、威尔特郡和伍斯特郡的词语。这份手稿在 18日之前基本上没有引起注意- 和 19世纪的收藏，今天仍然几乎不为人知，也许是因为它广泛使用拉丁语，但它引起了约瑟夫赖特的注意，他经常用它来代表一些西方方言。借鉴 EDD 的电子版（ EDD Online；Markus，2019a），该论文位于法医词典分析（Coleman & Ogilvie，2009）中，它“使用基于证据的方法来询问词典本身的决策过程参与他们的汇编'（1）。在这个框架中，我将档案材料与从EDD Online检索到的数据的定量和定性方法结合起来以确定从手稿中引用的单词的比例，并评估对它们的处理。注意它们在字典、标签、手稿中提供了更广泛信息的西方方言以及被引用为单词、归属和意义的唯一来源的条目中的作用。本文强调了Horae Subsecivae对EDD的杰出贡献，同时强调它显着提高了我们对西南和下西米德兰兹方言词汇变异的认识。它们只能从进一步检查中获益，因为它们“既不像北方的那些那么容易被发现，也不像北方的那些那样被充分研究”（Melchers，2010：82）。