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culture5
english language - dialects5
community life2
nature2
animals1
communication1
cooking1
dairy products1
education1
folk dancing1

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Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)1
Doug1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Hoyland, Tommy1
Marsden, Douglas1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Penhallurick, Robert J (1956-)1
Russell, Ian1
Siddall, Suzie1
Thorpe, Mary1

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Two Dialects of the Gower Peninsula: A Phonological Comparison of Penclawdd and Reynoldston

Penhallurick, Robert J (1956-)

1980

M.A. study of the speech of two informants from Penclawdd and two from Reynoldston (South Wales), interviewed using a questionnaire largely based on the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire (version modified for...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

June-August 1971

Tommy Hoyland sings 'Six Jolly Miners', and talks about the Grenoside Sword Dance. Recorded in the Shoulder of Mutton pub, Worrall, near Sheffield, on 13 June 1971. [Tr. 3] Douglas Marsden sings 'As...

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SED Word Map: Rat
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SED Word Map: Rat

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question IV.5.3, Rat, mapping responses Rat, Ret, and Rot. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and is dated December 1967. The map is headed ...

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Housekeeping - General

1965-1980

This file contains items relating to housekeeping and domestic arrangements, and associated customs. This includes a photocopy of Edith Martin's 'Do You Know Cornwall?: Chips and Shavings from a Corni...

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Cheshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter; Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1951-1957

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

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