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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)2
Harris, Susan2
Jones, William Eric2
Pattison, Susan2
Round, Mabel G2
Bell, Brigid M1
Bland, Cecil1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
English Folk Dance and Song Society1
View at Marshside
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View at Marshside

Stringfellow, Jonathan

1965

View looking towards the sea near Marshside, Southport .

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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