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Total number of records: 3911

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culture248
english language - dialects246
community life121
education106
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persons24
home20
communication18
human body16
nature16

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England3443
Yorkshire374
Essex165
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Norfolk143
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1323
Wright, John T549
Wright, Peter430
Sykes, Donald Richard346
Barry, Michael V (1935-)317
Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)144
Playford, Averil H134
Gibson, Dr Peter H122
Berntsen, Howard N100
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)50

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Archive Sub-collection

Survey of English Dialects

1893-1995

This subfonds contains Harold Orton's SED and academic related papers, and items concerning the elicitation, collection, collation and publication of English dialect data. The published data, hereafte...

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Harold Orton Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1893-1975

This series relates specifically to Harold Orton's academic research in the field of language and linguistics, and contains correspondence with Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publisher...

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Questionnaire Response Books and Related Papers

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

1931-1965

This series contains items which relate in the main to the collection of fieldwork data for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). The practical starting point for the SED was the production of the Die...

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Audio-Recording Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1956-1995

Typed items relating to aspects of the audio-recording of Survey of English Dialects (SED) informants. This includes Harold Orton's proposals for an anthology of dialect recordings and a linguistic at...

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Editors' Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1947-1971

This series contains papers created during the editing and printing of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Introduction and Basic Material volumes.

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Publicity

1935-1971

The items in this series relate to the publicising of the published SED Basic Material volumes, through press conferences and media coverage, announcements by the publishers, E. J. Arnold, and the Uni...

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Correspondence

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1929-1975

Original incoming and copies of outgoing letters between Harold Orton and Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publishers, editors, university administrators and academics. These relate to O...

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Fieldwork and Research

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1893-1974

The diffuse nature of the subject content of this subseries highlights Harold Orton's broad-ranging interest in language, language research and folk life, including in particular, phonetics ( Yorkshir...

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Lectures and Talks

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1936-1974

Harold Orton promoted the Survey of English Dialects (SED), and the proposed Linguistic Atlas of England, to academic and public audiences at home and abroad, through the writing of papers for present...

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Dieth-Orton Questionnaire

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

1931-1953

This subseries consists of items relating to the compilation and testing of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, which forms the basis of the fieldwork for the SED. The subseries includes drafts of the Ques...

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Survey of English Dialects Tape Recording Anthologies

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1967

The file consists of a typed memo from Harold Orton to the director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies ( Stewart Sanderson) regarding the progress of Survey of English Dialects (SED) au...

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Editorial Procedure

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1947-1968

This subseries consists of papers relating to editorial work on the fieldwork data collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), in preparation for its publication. This includes papers on edito...

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