A Study in the Living Durham Dialect: A Contribution to an English Linguistic Atlas
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Type of record: Archive
Title: A Study in the Living Durham Dialect: A Contribution to an English Linguistic Atlas
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/105
Creator(s): Bailes, John Lloyd
Site Location(s): Subject - Stanhope, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.75, -2.01667 ); Subject - Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.8575, -1.73827 ); Subject - Newton Ayliffe, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6184, -1.5719 ); Subject - Barnard Castle, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.5415, -1.919 ); Subject - Cleadon, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom( 54.9541, -1.4008 ); Subject - Byers Green, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6998, -1.65348 ); Subject - Shotton, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.7566, -1.38408 ); Subject - County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6766, -1.76654 )
Date(s): 1948
Size and medium: iii, 253 bound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410001
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. study of the dialect of seven communities in Durham, using the questionnaire compiled by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth (Bailes had accompanied them on three of their preliminary fieldwork visits in West and North Yorkshire in 1947, testing the questionnaire). Bailes concentrated his own study on Annfield Plain, Aycliffe, Barnard Castle, Byers Green, Cleadon, Shotton and Stanhope. The study comprises a description of the inception and testing of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, the answer sheets that Bailes used to record his data, the communities investigated and the informants interviewed, fieldwork procedure and practice, an examination of the phonological material collected, a glossary of lexical items and a detailed critique of the Questionnaire. An appendix contains a copy of the short questionnaire distributed among the members of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, during the composition of the draft questionnaire.
Seven files of completed answer sheets accompany the study. These record phonetically the responses to each question, with also Bailes' orthographic notes and comments. Answers given in Aycliffe were not recorded, as no sheets were available when this location was visited. There are, however, questionnaire responses for an additional location, Middleheads, near Castleside. These were not included in the final thesis.
Bailes also recorded together on 5" x 4" slips of paper the responses to each individual question from each of the seven locations. This 4" run of slips for Books 1-9 is contained in a card index box.
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