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Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D59 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D59

Creator(s): Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Site Location(s): Subject - Morebattle, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom( 55.5175, -2.3639 )

Date(s): 23 Aug 1939

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 21 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 03 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726831

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

2 - Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Description

[Side 1] Mr Currie tells an anecdote about a minister seeking selection for the local kirk, general discussion of local flower show, leeks, barley soups, scabious. [Side 2] Mr Currie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Morebattle dialect, tells joke about a Scottish farmer in Paris, tells joke about the bishop and the kettle.

Biography or history

Mr Currie b. Eckford, Roxburghshire. Mrs. Liddell b. Morebattle, Roxburghshire. Miss Dick b. Morebattle, Roxburghshire.

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Downloadable text transcriptions (where available) are reproduced with permission from Juhani Klemola and Mark Jones. ©All Rights Reserved.

Physical and technical conditions

78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium

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