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Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book I
[1960s]
Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book I: The Farm. Missing questions I.1.1, I.1.3, and I.1.4.
Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book II
[1960s]
Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book II: Farming.
Latteridge (Gloucestershire)
Voitl, Herbert
[1960s]
Farmyard in Latteridge (Gloucestershire), showing loaded wagon and a barn full of hay. Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 24/7.
SED Word Map: Stooking
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question II.6.5, Stooking (in relation to harvesting), listing responses Stook, Steeak, Stowk, Shock/Shook/Shuck, Hattock, Set Up, Stitc...
SED Word Map: Stooking
Playford, Averil H
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map of Leicestershire and Rutland, completed in typescript, for SED question II.6.5, Stook/Stooking (of hay, etc.), mapping responses Shocking and Stouking. The map was compi...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
8 June 1972
Frank Hinchliffe in conversation at his home in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about farming (threshing, machinery, ploughing) during the 1940s and wartime; sings and discusses fragments of a number of ...
Essex, Middlesex and London Responses: Book III
[1960s]
Collated responses from locations in Essex, Middlesex and London to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Questionnaire Book III: Animals.
The Living Dialect of Kettlewell
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1951
A study of the dialect spoken in Kettlewell in North Yorkshire. An introduction to the village and the area is followed by chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect r...
A Phonology of the Dialect of Merriott in Somerset
Hamper, H Victor
1959
A study of the dialect spoken in Merriott in Somerset, based on the collector's fieldwork interviews with one male informant in September 1958 and January 1959, the written field recordings made by Jo...
The Living Dialect of Litton in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Battersby, Pauline
1963
A study of the dialect spoken by one man in Litton, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, based on answers given to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire (Books I-IX), and a tape-recorded conver...
SED Phonological Map: Mow
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., mapping vowel forms in responses to SED question II.9.3, Mow. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: Northern C...
SED Questionnaire Page: Farmstead and Farm Workers
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Page 1 of the SED Questionnaire as published by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, with questions for I.1 The Farmstead, and I.2 The Workmen on the Farm. The page includes ms. corrections i...