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Whitchurch Response Book - 15He6
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Whitchurch Response Book - 15He6

Sykes, Donald Richard

12 Jul 1955 - 19 Jul 1955

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Title: Speech-less, Feb. 15 1695/6

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: C. Morris

Date(s): 1696 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 56

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Speechless, asking God mercifully

to forgive his sins, and Christ to plead for him. Repeated

later in the MS.

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Pateley Bridge Response Book - 6Y15

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

5 Nov 1952 - 11 Nov 1952

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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