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A Comparison of the Living Dialects of Davenham and Whitegate (Cheshire)
Hill, P Geoffrey
1972
A study of the dialect spoken in two Cheshire villages, Davenham and Whitegate, based on interviews with three informants from each locality.
Ryedale Folk: Saxton, Joan
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: ME and OE E
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., mapping examples of Middle English and Old English vowel forms found in responses to SED questions V.6.4 Knead, VI.5.5 Speak, ...
Fieldwork Progress Maps
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1955-1961
This file contains a number of base maps, completed in ms. by Harold Orton, showing the progress of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork at various stages between 1955 and 1960; and the area...
Survey of Vernacular Architecture, 1980-1981
1980-1981
This file contains photocopies of two papers submitted for the FLS I student exercise for the undergraduate degree in Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (I...
Transcript: Hunt, Julian
Blackmore, Pete
2022-2023
Transcript of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project.
Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]
Shaw, Carol
[1973/1974]
Herbert Pelham-Jones gives examples of tongue twisters, obscene jokes; talks about his parents, grandparents and uncles; Irish jokes; Jewish joke; jokes about nuns; crude nursery rhyme parodies; more ...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Uffington, Berkshire
May 1959
[Side 1] George tells anecdote about selling cow to local farmer, recalls negotiating share of profit, describes typical feed and routine for cattle in past. [Side 2] George compares farming now and ...
A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original : in two alphabetical catalogues : the one of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the southern counties, with an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England
Ray, John (1627-1705); Skeat, Walter W (1835-1912); Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)
1874
With a report of the Society, containing a list of members etc.: (p. 1-20, [1]) prior to title page.
The new Green mountain songster : traditional folk songs of Vermont
Flanders, Helen Hartness (1890-1972); Ballard, Elizabeth Flanders; Brown, George (1901-); Barry, Phillips (1880-1937)
1966
Most of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies) With facsimiles of t.-p., preface and early verses of the first song in the original Green mountain songster, 1823, from which the editors have ...
SED Phonological Map: ME and OE E
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., mapping examples of Middle English and Old English vowel forms found in responses to SED questions V.6.4 Knead, VI.5.5 Speak, ...
Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]
Shaw, Carol
[1973/1974]
Herbert Pelham-Jones talks about joke-telling: the jokes he tells, why, when and where; reference to the Jokers' Club and Hampshire Club; gives examples of stories, inc. tongue twisters (crude); jokes...