Walter William Skeat, FBA (21 November 1835 – 6 October 1912) was a British philologist and Anglican deacon. The pre-eminent British philologist of his...
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Len Skeat, jazz double-bassist Theodore Cressy Skeat (1907–2003), paleographer Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist and etymologist Walter William...
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Walter William Skeat (14 October 1866 – 24 July 1953) was an English anthropologist. He made a name for himself mainly with his pioneering investigations...
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said, "I'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever." Walter William Skeat noted that the Turner anecdote had been recorded by temperance advocate...
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these two acquisitions. He was the grandson of noted philologist Walter William Skeat. Skeat was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1963, but resigned...
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belief or practice, however wildly distorted. In the 19th century, Walter William Skeat speculated that the name was originally "Trivagante", meaning "thrice...
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single nation". She cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag– element of the...
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to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula, by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, edition: illustrated, published by Routledge...
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1913 A concise etymological dictionary of the English language, By Walter William Skeat Kenneth Meyer Setton (1 July 1992). "Western Hostility to Islam and...
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Translations include those by Percival Ashley Chubb (1899) and Walter William Skeat (1904). The four central characters remain the same as in Chaucer's...
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