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West Midlands Responses: Book VII, Part 1
1960s
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VII, Part 1: Cardinal Numbers. Includes questions VII.1.1 One - VII.1.10 Twelve/Dozen.
Children's Stories
Thomson, Sydney
1972
This file contains items relating to a survey of children's stories, both written and oral, undertaken by Sydney Thomson at two primary schools in West Leeds in 1972. This includes a typed outline of ...
SED Phonological Map: Night
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question VII.3.11, Night, mapping the various vowel forms found in Northern Counties responses. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, a...
SED Phonological Map: Oak
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question IV.10.2, Oak, mapping various vowel forms found in Northern Counties responses. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and is d...
SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Haltwhistle
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by Stanley Ellis. The page includes responses from informant Jack Hepple of Haltwhistle (Northumberland), recorded on 11 March 1953, to sections II...
Yorkshire Castles
Taylor, Alfred
1962
This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Round Yorkshire Castles' series, published in and extracted from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The complete series ran from July - October (?) 1962, a...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and London
Bystad, Berit
October 1973
[Collector announcement]; four schoolgirls (aged 10-11) recorded in Quarry Street playground, Leeds, describe and give examples of singing and clapping games. Recorded on the 23 October 1973. [Tr. 1] ...
Lists of Forms
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s]
This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...
Professor Orton: Biography and Obituary Notices
1972-1975
This file comprises papers containing biographical information on, and obituaries of, Harold Orton. This includes printed biographical details of Orton's education and career, possibly from/for a biog...
Language Papers
Strevens, Peter
1961-1966
This file contains a typed draft version of a paper for a Festschrift for Daniel Jones, 'Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, and Other Components of Language-Teaching' (1961), 15 leaves; a typed working d...
Selected Writings of Petr Bogatyrev
Bogatyrev, Petr (1893-1971); Miller, Stephen
1984
This file contains a master duplicator copy of part of 'Peter Bogatyrev (1893-1971): Selected Writings in Folkloristics (1931-1939)', edited by Stephen Miller. It forms no. 6 of the Leeds Folklore Gro...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) from Lancashire locations 5La11-12 and North Yorkshire locations 6Y1-2. The original recordings were made between November 1952 ...