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A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Dialect of Golcar
Wood, D R
1983
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Golcar, West Yorkshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with one local informant.
SED Phonological Map: Hammer
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Early-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms. and typescript, for SED question I.7.13, Hammer, mapping the distribution of responses where the initial H is retained, and where no H is pronou...
Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals
1960-1973
This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
25 June 1974
Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
25 June 1974
Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, gr...
Spring and Summer Festivals
1963-1981
This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
25 June 1974
Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], sings 'Young Sailor Cut Down in his Prime'; comments on the chorus and audience participation, thoughts he has when singing; comments on a comme...
Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets
1940-1974
This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...
The Dialect of Golcar
Jacobson, Joanne
1974
M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...
A Study of the Living Dialects of Lincolnshire Based on an Investigation by Questionnaire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1952
M.A. thesis on the dialects of Lincolnshire, based on fieldwork carried out between June and December 1951 using versions four and five of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. The collector made initial fie...