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Two Generations of the Dialect of Kibblesworth, County Durham: A Synchronic Comparison
Shields, Marilyn
1970
A study of the dialect spoken in Kibblesworth, County Durham, based on interviews conducted with two male informants (aged sixty-nine and twenty-one) during Easter 1969.
Ryedale Folk: Hunter, Bob
2022-2023
Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...
SED Phonological Map: Home
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question VIII.5.2 (Stay at) Home, mapping vowel forms. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: Northern ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Brooks, Margaret
16 February 1973
Myers Johnson, recorded [?at home] in Kettlesing [daughter also present]; gives biographical information and talks about the Dacre parish (his birthplace); closure of local chapels; wartime recollecti...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Horsington, Somerset
Jul 1956
[Side 1] Percy talks about current 'cow-dog' [= dog trained to work with cattle], explains dog clipped annually by local pedigree breeder, reflects on horses' and cattle's ability to understand and ob...
A Phonological Study of the Dialects of Northumberland
Smith, Patricia Anne
1954
A study of the dialects spoken in Northumberland, based on fieldwork undertaken in the county in 1953 by Stanley Ellis, for the Survey of English Dialects. An introduction to the seven villages comp...
Hops and Hop-Picking
[ca. late 1960s]
This file contains items collected for P. K. Kemp's undergraduate dissertation on migrant hop-pickers in Kent, submitted to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in 1970. The includes a photo...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Brooks, Margaret
16 February 1973
Myers Johnson, dry stone waller, recorded outside in Kettlesing, talks about the village and his roles in the parish (officer, committee member); shows walls he has built himself; describes constructi...
Orthographic Transcriptions
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
1956-1963
Typed transcriptions (by Stanley Ellis) of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) audio-recordings, made in Horsington (1956) and South Zeal (1963); and a typed paper by Martyn Wakelin, 'The...
Tape Recording Transcriptions
1956-1970
Typed transcriptions of Anglo-Manx ( Isle of Man) dialect ( Michael Barry, 1966) and East Yorkshire dialect ( John Widdowson, 1970). Also typed transcriptions of Survey of English Dialects (SED) infor...