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english language - dialects27
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meat22
folklore13
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Upton, Clive S27
Hartshorne, Brian3
Clifton, Gerald2
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Lindley, Mrs2
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Simmons, Ivy2
Simmons, Mr2
Arnold, Jim1
Blamire, Edward1

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Butchering Questionnaire

Upton, Clive S

1974

This file contains a fieldwork questionnaire designed to elicit information about the working practices and terminology used by people connected with the meat trade. The responses collected provided d...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the an...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the answer...

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Sound Recording, Gloucestershire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Gerald Clifton, recorded in Moreton-in-Marsh; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, p...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and the West Midlands

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Gerald Clifton, recorded in Moreton-in-Marsh [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A715r]; talks about the displaying of meat in a butcher's shop; shop fixtures and fittings; the refrigeration of meat; butche...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant talks about working in the meat trade since the age of thirty, having previously worked with his father selling fish and poultry/fruit and vegetables [in the ? West Midlands]; wartime a...

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Sound Recording, Derby

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Lindley and his wife [possibly recorded in Spondon, on the outskirts of Derby] give answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology assoc...

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Sound Recording, West Midlands

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tapes LAVC/SRE/A716r and LAVC/SRE/A717r]; talks about butchers' back slang (for animal names/meat cuts and other terms); explains ...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions ...

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