William Barnes was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. A linguistic purist, Barnes strongly advocated against borrowing foreign words into English, and instead supported the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech".
Rev. William Barnes
Barnes's memorial and grave at St Peter's Church, Winterborne Came
West Country English is a group of English language varieties and accents used by much of the native population of the West Country, an area found in the southwest of England.
"Dreckly" on souvenir clocks in Cornwall