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View at Marshside
Stringfellow, Jonathan
1965
View looking towards the sea near Marshside, Southport .
Questionnaire Version 2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1948-1949
This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...
BBC File 6
1948-1949
Multiple copies of draft typescripts edited by Harold Orton for a series of seven radio talks, “The History of English”, dated 1948-1949 (n.b. programmes 3 and 4 are missing); BBC European Program...
The Living Dialect of Broughton in Furness, in the County of Lancashire
Round, Mabel G
1949
M.A. thesis examining the dialect of Broughton in Furness, based on data collected between September 1947 and April 1948. Its six chapters give a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recor...
Fieldwork File 1
1947-1948
Correspondence between Harold Orton and the Bursar at the University of Leeds; and report on Paul Wettstein’s fieldwork testing the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire in Derbyshire. 1 file. 1947-1948.
Academic Correspondence File 117
1948
Wilson, George P. Correspondence from George P. Wilson, Secretary of the American Dialect Society, regarding the Society’s journal, Publication of the American Dialect Society. 1 file. 1948.
Academic Correspondence File 99
1948-1959
Pop, Sever. Correspondence from Sever Pop including a photostat copy of a summary of Pop’s lecture (1954) on the Romanian linguistic survey, and a copy of his L’Atlas Linguistique Roumain (Coimbra...
Microfilm of Postgraduate Thesis on the Dialect of Broughton in Furness
Micro Methods Limited
[1970s]
A copy of Mabel Round's M.A. thesis (Leeds, 1949), 'The Living Dialect of Broughton in Furness, in the County of Lancashire'. The thesis is based on data collected in Broughton in Furness (Lancashire)...
Academic Correspondence File 96
1948-1963
Orr, John. Correspondence between Harold Orton and John Orr regarding the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; the Scottish dialect survey, preliminary progress, and the Questionnaire; Orton’s visit to Edinbu...
Folktale Studies and Philology: Some Points of View
Sydow, Carl Wilhelm von (1878-1952)
1965
Photocopy of an article from 'The Study of Folklore' (1965) pp. 220-242, in turn reprinted from C.W. von Sydow, 'Selected Papers on Folklore', edited by Laurits Bødker (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde og Bagg...
The Phonology of the Dialect of Bubwith in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Langrick, Annie E
1948
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Bubwith, East Yorkshire. An introduction to the village and the area is followed by six chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of ...
Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
1942-1985
Doctoral theses and masters/diploma dissertations submitted in fulfillment of degrees in Folk Life Studies, English Language, English Literature and Dialectology. The majority of these are typed, and ...