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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
12 Oct 1938
Charlie recites the tale of a Geordie driving to London and having an accident in heavy traffic, recites description of the local hunt.
Illustrations File 7
1960-1969
44-48: “Recording Books”. Multiple photocopies of pages from the Survey of English Dialects fieldwork response books for localities 6 Y 11 [Rillington], questions I.3 [The Cow-House]; and 21 Nf 4 ...
Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets
1940-1974
This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...
Hampshire Response Books
Wright, John T; Wright, Peter; Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1952-1959
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Hampshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were rec...
Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
17 Sep 1952
[Side 1] Conversation about 'mushel' [= mussel] fishing, discussion of preparations for following morning, comments about poor quality of mushels recently, nothing but 'clarts' [= mud]. [Side 2] Expla...
Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Dialect recording in Wooler, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
17 Sep 1952
Side 1 recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. Side 2 recording in Wooler.[Side 1] Eleanor, Hunter and Rose talk about about fishing locally, discussion about father leading strike. [Side 2] John tells amu...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Scopwick, Lincolnshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
29 Sep 1952
[Side 1] Charles recalls father visiting neighbouring farmer and being shown 'gilt' [= young sow] and litter of piglets, neighbour convinced 'reckling' [= runt] unlikely to survive so Charles' father ...
Stanley Ellis Papers
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1952-1982
This series consists primarily of papers relating to the compilation of a Fishing Questionnaire used in a survey coordinated by Ellis through the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) in ...