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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Skelton, Michael G1
Wright, Peter1

Archive File

A Phonological Study of Two Newcastle Idiolects

Skelton, Michael G

1976

M.A. research exercise analysing the speech habits of two informants from Newcastle upon Tyne, based on fieldwork carried out in December 1975 in Gosforth High School ( Gosforth), and on an audio reco...

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British Broadcasting Corporation

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1948-1963

Harold Orton's (draft and final version) scripts used in his BBC radio broadcasts on the English language and dialect. These include interviews with Orton by other people, and single programmes and se...

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The Greenwood Manuscript

Greenwood, Harry

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...

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Yorkshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

1950-1953

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Yorkshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were rec...

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