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english language - dialects3
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social life and customs3
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entertainment events2
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human settlements2
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Austin, Edward5
Wright, John T5
Weare, James Henry2
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Adcock, Mr1
Austin, Harry1
Bury, Jack1
Dunn, Ginette1
Gwinnett, Aubrey1
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)1
Kennford Response Book - 37D7
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Book II: Farming [Kennford Response Book]

Wright, John T

25 Jun 1958 - 29 Jun 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to farming.

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Book III: Animals [Kennford Response Book]

Wright, John T

25 Jun 1958 - 29 Jun 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to animals.

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Book VI: The Human Body [Kennford Response Book]

Wright, John T

25 Jun 1958 - 29 Jun 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the human body.

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Kennford Response Book - 37D7
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Kennford Response Book - 37D7

Wright, John T

25 Jun 1958 - 29 Jun 1958

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Verse: General

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a typed copy of Edward K. Miller's paper, 'Local Chauvinism and Life-Experience Transfiguration in British Monologues', with photocopied notes and appendices, 19, [7] leaves. The ap...

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Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September 1973

Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1967-1968

Jack Bury, recorded in Winderton; talks about harvesting methods - fagging, tying sheaves and leaving to stand for three bells (i.e. three Sundays); discusses a ?sheppick (hay fork); labour force on t...

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Notes [Kennford Response Book]

Wright, John T

25 Jun 1958 - 29 Jun 1958

Notes section at the rear of the response book. Includes biographical information about the informants.

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