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Archive File

A Description of the Dialect of Timperley, Cheshire

Lawton, Jean B

1973

A study of the dialect spoken in Timperley, Cheshire, based on fieldwork interviews with two local informants.

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Archive File

Ryedale Folk: Snaith, Dot

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...

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American English Dialect Maps
Archive Item

American English Dialect Maps

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of pages 584-585 of W. Nelson Francis' 'The Structure of American English' (New York: Ronald Press Co, 1958), showing Appendix Map 5, Vocabulary Isoglosses, and Map 6, Loanword Isoglosses. The ma...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded in his home in Leeds. Talks about his family; village ceilidhes in Ireland; melodeons; music at the Regent pub in Leeds; sings [unidentified]; discusses the learning of songs; si...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Coldharbour, Surrey

Sep 1959

[Side 1] Mr Ede compares farming now and in past, reflects on improved working conditions due to introduction of farm machinery, talks about work at Broome Hall, comments estate now in decline, descri...

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Remarks upon Field Work for an English Linguistic Atlas of England.

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1953

This file contains a photocopy of Harold Orton's article outlining how the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork was conducted, and the 3-4 day process undertaken by fieldworkers to elicit inform...

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Sound Recordings, West Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and East Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Harry Prior, recorded in East Harting (West Sussex) in June 1959; talks about Sussex farm waggons; harvesting and building a stack; thatching a haystack; local parkland; info...

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