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Survey of English Dialects
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1936-1966
The papers contained within this sub-subseries describe the genesis and development of the Survey of English Dialects (SED), Harold Orton's collaboration with Eugen Dieth, their methodology, fieldwork...
Survey of English Dialects File 1
1946-1947
“Talks - Dialect”. Harold Orton’s typed paper, “Dialectal English and the Student” (10 pp.), delivered to the Yorkshire Dialect Society in Sheffield, 11 May 1946; typed paper, “Dialectal E...
Survey of English Dialects File 2
1950
“The Q’aire”. Typed and ms. basis of a lecture delivered by Harold Orton in Edinburgh to the Linguistic Society, on 20 January 1950. Includes first draft of the paper dated 18 January 1950 with ...
Survey of English Dialects File 3
[1946?]-1958
“Eng. Dialect Survey - Talks La. Dialect Soc.”. Untitled typed paper (18 pp.) headed “Yorkshire Audience” [referring to the Yorkshire Dialect Society?]; ms. notes, “Lecture to Leeds G[rammar...
Survey of English Dialects File 4
1955-1966
“English Dialect Survey - Talks 2”. Typed draft paper, “The Linguistic Atlas of England” (3 pp.), comprising Harold Orton’s presidential address to the Philological Society, May 1955; sixtee...
Survey of English Dialects File 5
1959-1960
“SED Lecture Notes”. Various lecture notes in Harold Orton’s hand; copies of Alexander Ellis’ “English Dialect Districts” maps (1887 and 1889) applied to the Survey of English Dialects “...
Survey of English Dialects File 6
1958-1964
“SED Lectures Mss”. Ms. paper, “A Survey of English Dialects (Read by Dr. Halliday)” delivered at the 4th Viking Congress in Leeds, 24 August 1961, and including Harold Orton’s ms. notes, an...
Survey of English Dialects File 7
1960-1965
“SED Lectures”. Harold Orton’s ms. notes on index cards for the “Leeds ESU Talk” on the Survey of English Dialects, 9 July 1963; ms. notes on index cards for the talk to the “Leeds Rotaria...
Survey of English Dialects File 8
1961
“SED - Lectures”. Harold Orton’s ms. notes, a newspaper cutting on Louis Lucien Bonaparte from the Times (3 July 1961), and hand-outs including examples from the Survey of English Dialects Quest...
Survey of English Dialects File 9
1960-1969
“SED Lecture Notes”. Book lists for Harold Orton’s American universities dialectology course; Orton’s typed paper, “The Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada”, [n.d.]; Stanley E...
Survey of English Dialects File 10
1940-1980
“SED Mapping Article”. Harold Orton’s ms. (9 pp.) and typed (7 pp.) copies of his proposed system of conventional symbols for use by students of English dialectology wishing to draw their own di...