The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/207
Creator(s): Ambler, Pamela J
Site Location(s): Subject - Queensbury, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7666, -1.84912 )
Date(s): 1954
Size and medium: ii, 49 unbound ms. leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410243
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire.
An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels and consonants). The second chapter contains answers given to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, Books III to IX. These are recorded phonetically on forty-eight unbound leaves, dated 1953-1954. The first appendix contains phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of two female speakers, tape-recorded for the collector by Stanley Ellis. The second appendix contains a list of terms connected with the barrel making industry in Queensbury, and the third appendix contains an account of barrel making in the town, including labelled line drawings of a barrel and coopers' tools. A Word List is also included. Postcard prints within the study show views of the town, and a newspaper cutting shows Stanley Ellis interviewing his two informants [the provenance of the cutting is not known].
A duplicate copy of the answers to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire accompanies the study. This includes additional information on fieldwork and the collector's informants. 44 bound ms. leaves, [8].
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