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The Phonology of the Dialect of Wedmore, Somerset
Parker, David J
1976
A study of the dialect spoken in the Somerset village of Wedmore, based on data collected through free-conversation fieldwork interviews with six local informants.
Weald & Downland: Holding, Sally
2022-2023
Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...
SED Phonological Map: Night
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question VII.3.11, Night, mapping the various vowel types found in responses. The map is headed Survey of Engl...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth
1976
Child and adult groups, recorded in Leeds. First session Children's Group: 5 schoolchildren relate their versions of the same (humorous, supernatural) narratives. Second session Children's Group: sa...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Fleetwood, Lancashire
Jun 1951
[Side 1] Bob and William in conversation about life on a Fleetwood fishing 'smack' [= single-masted light sailing vessel], comparison of sails now and in past, description of crew and daily watches. ...
A key to the museums of Sweden
Serner, Gertrud; Cramér, Margaretha; Svenska institutet för kulturellt utbyte med utlandet
1960
With an appendix containing a list of museums, loosely inserted.
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth
1976
Five adults (3 men, 2 women), recorded in Leeds, relate their versions of the same narratives: a shaggy-dog story, a contemporary legend concerning the building of the Rotunda in Birmingham, a local s...
Miscellaneous Folklore Papers
1964-1979
Pamphlet by Charles Phythian-Adams, 'Local History and Folklore: A New Framework' ([London]: Standing Conference for Local History, 1975), 39 pp.; reprint from the 'Journal of the Folklore Institute',...
A Grammar of the Dialect of Fleetwood (Lancashire), Descriptive and Historical
Wright, Peter
1954
Ph.D. containing in its first volume a treatment of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[53], the modern equivalents of the Middle English vowels and consonants, and an account of the syntax and m...