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culture10
etiquette10
persons10
conduct of life8
english language - dialects8
community life5
manners and customs5
folklore4
literature and folklore4
communication3

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Chamberlain, John S1
Cross, Mrs1
Frear, Mr1
Frear, Mrs1
Love, Mrs1
Neale, Brenda Ann1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Sykes, Herbert1
Sykes, Mrs1

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West Midlands Responses: Book VIII, Part 8

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VIII, Part 8: Behaviour. Includes questions VIII.8.1 Bogey [i.e. Bogeyman] - VIII.8.8 Our own...

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West Midlands Responses: Book VIII, Part 8

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VIII, Part 8: Behaviour. Includes questions VIII.8.9 Cursing/Swearing - VIII.8.15 Collect.

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West Midlands Responses: Book VIII, Part 9

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VIII, Part 9: Qualities. Includes questions VIII.9.1 Active - VIII.9.7 Such a (fool).

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SED Word Map: Look For (It)
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SED Word Map: Look For (It)

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question III.13.18, Look For (It), mapping Northern Counties responses with Lait. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and is dated 28 Novembe...

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Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book IX

[1960s]

Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book IX: States, Actions, Relations.

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Archive Sub-series

Social Intercourse

1967-1972

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Neale, Brenda Ann

25 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; male, recorded in the home of his fiancée's parents in Leeds; talks about his first meeting with his future wife [informant on tapes A571r and A572r]; first date; first impr...

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Conventional Expressions

1964-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Irene Teoh Brosnahan's paper, 'The Haptics of the English Handshake', from 'IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching', volume XVII, numb...

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Animals and Birds

1949-1981

This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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