Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright is a work devoted to the study of language and communication. It reflects the era when the scientific and scholarly investigation of words, meaning, and usage flourished, and it offers the modern reader a window into that tradition.
Preserved here as a free public-domain EPUB, the book is part of Better Gutenberg’s Language & Communication shelf, which gathers foundational texts in linguistics, rhetoric, etymology, and the study of languages. Whether you come to it as a scholar, a student, or a lover of words, it offers a lasting record of how earlier generations understood and described human speech.