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Badman, Mary J1
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Archive File

The Phonology of the Living Dialect of Pilling, Lancashire

Badman, Mary J

1979

A study of the dialect spoken in the Lancashire village of Pilling, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with three local informants.

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Walloon Language Survey Page
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Walloon Language Survey Page

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of a page from a published survey of the Walloon dialect of Belgium, showing responses collected for item no. 52, Jambe (Leg).

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Sound Recordings, Manchester

Mulley, Ian

1976

Collector talks with small groups/pairs of children at Greenheys Junior School, Greater Manchester, about duppies (ghosts), rasta men, the police, jumbies (ghosts), visiting the West Indies, children'...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire

Dyson, B Ronald

Sep 1952

[Side 1] Mrs. Earnshaw discusses food in past, incl. 'butter shive' [= slice of bread and butter], recalls first holiday aged 50 to Blackpool, talks about visit of pigman to stick pig, remembers makin...

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Archive File

Fishing Methods, Etc.

1962-1979

This file contains items relating to traditional fishing methods, including an ms. letter from Richard R. Blewett to Mr. Martin with a newspaper cutting on the use of charmed words to catch fish, incl...

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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...

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