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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)16
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)4
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)4

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Linguistic Atlases

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1940-1972

From an early stage, Harold Orton saw the collection of dialect data and its presentation in map form as parts of the same process, and thus his lectures would necessarily cover the range of activitie...

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Wordmap Series

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1978

Photocopies of Sanderson's 'Wordmap' series of five short articles, as published in 'New Society', August-September 1978. The articles appeared shortly before the publication of 'The Linguistic Atlas ...

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Index Cards

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This sub-subseries comprises a single set of index cards, recording alphabetically and orthographically in ms. the different word forms collected in response to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questi...

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Illustrations

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1958-1965]

This sub-subseries contains the illustrative items Harold Orton used to accompany his lectures and talks. This includes compilation files of Questionnaire response book pages, locality and word maps, ...

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Questionnaire Version 1

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1946-1947

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 1 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; correspondence with the Yorkshire Dialect Society; an ms. notebook and fieldwork response books belonging t...

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Questionnaire Version 2

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1948-1949

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...

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Published Versions of the Questionnaire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1952-1953

This sub-subseries includes ms. fieldwork response books completed by Harold Orton, recording the testing of version [5] of the Questionnaire in locations in Essex and Shropshire; the Dieth-Orton Ques...

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Other Questionnaires Consulted

1931-1949

This sub-subseries includes questionnaires, and related items, on language and folk culture from England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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Processing of Northern Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the Northern Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of English ...

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Processing of West Midland Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the West Midlands Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of Eng...

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Processing of East Midland Counties Response Books

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of the East Midland Counties Basic Material volume, and thus includes collated Survey of Engl...

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Essex, Middlesex and London Responses

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses collected in Essex, Middlesex and London. These...

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