The Living Dialect of the Village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Living Dialect of the Village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/209
Creator(s): Haslam, Marie
Site Location(s): Subject - Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.8115, -0.29371 )
Date(s): 1954
Size and medium: xiii, 114, 93 bound ms. leaves; 8 b/w photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410245
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the Hertfordshire village of Wheathampstead.
An introduction to the village is followed by chapters which present information on the informants, a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1953, the development of the Middle English sounds of the dialect (vowels and consonants), and a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of stressed vowels in the dialect. An Appendix includes phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of a passage taken from a tape recording of a Wheathampstead speaker, made by Stanley Ellis in December 1953. This passage describes the process of haymaking. A Word List is also included.
In collecting information, the collector made use of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, and the responses for Books I-IX of this questionnaire, recorded phonetically, are included on fieldwork sheets [93 ms. leaves]. These responses were included as one of three Hertfordshire locations in the published 'Survey of English Dialects', [edited] by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth. [Section] B, 'The Basic Material'. Vol. 3, pts. 1-3, 'The East Midland Counties and East Anglia', edited by Harold Orton and Philip M. Tilling (Leeds: Published for the University of Leeds by E. J. Arnold, 1969-1971).
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