Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D130
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Skelmanthorpe, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5906, -1.65173 )
Date(s): 04 Feb 1952
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 15 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 40 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726895
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Wilsey provides responses to survey questionnaire Book IV NATURE, Book IV.1 (WATER, GROUND) incl. demonstration of local pronunciation of e.g. 'dike' [= stream], 'brig' [= 'bridge'], 'flooded', 'tank hole' [= pond], 'puddle hole' [= puddle/pothole], 'slope' and 'steep'. [Side 2] Wilsey provides responses to survey questionnaire Book IV NATURE, Book IV.3 (GATE, TRACK), Book IV.4 (SOIL, MINERALS), IV.7 (WILD BIRDS) & IV.8 (INSECTS) incl. demonstration of local pronunciation of e.g. 'loan' [= lane], 'ground', 'clay', 'peat', 'coal', 'gull', 'partridges', 'lice' and 'louse'.
Biography or history
Wilsey b. Skelmanthorpe, aged 76, local school till aged 10, whole life in Skelmanthorpe; father b. Skelmanthorpe, handloom weaver & smallholder; mother b. Skelmanthorpe.
Provenance
Note on lacquer disc label side 1: A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England, Book IV, Page 1. Note on lacquer disc label side 2: A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England, Book IV, 3-13 to 4-5, 7-5 to 8-3.
Wilsey's age of 67 noted by ear, 76 noted by ear on LAVC/SRE/D/2/131, 75 written in Survey of English Dialects Basic Material, Volume 1, Part 1, Page 37.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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