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Language Usage of Some Educated Anglophone Families in Yaounde
Ewota, Jemea I
1979
A study of the language usage of five educated anglophone families resident in Yaounde, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Masters Degree in English, Department of English, Un...
Personnel and Progress Report
Detroit Dialect Society
1966
This file contains a photocopy of a typed statement of personnel of the Detroit Dialect Society, Michigan State University (undated); and two copies of the Society's Progress Report, 1 April 1966, wri...
Sound Recording, Nottingham
Holt, Rachel A
September 1971
Market pitcher recorded at Sneinton Market, Nottingham.
Source Lists
1975-1980
This file contains a typed list of the books held in the Orton Research Room (as at 1980), and source lists compiled by Margaret Jackson and Brenda Neale for the subjects Education (1975), Folklore an...
Sound Recording, Northumberland
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
April 1961
[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...
John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century
Davies, Patrick J M
1983
A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...
A Study of Language and Folklore in Batley and Surrounding Areas
Holdsworth, Valerie M
1971
A Special Study submitted as part of an unidentified course at Eaton Hall College of Education, Retford, in 1971. The study comprises a collection of folklore items, gathered from eleven informants li...
Language Development: Course Guide and Supplementary Material
Open University
1978-1979
This file contains items relating to the Open University post-experience second level course in Language Development, designed for in-service education of teachers. This includes an 'Introduction and ...
The Lore, Language and Games of Children
Wellsted, Catherine
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of Catherine Wellsted's typed study of children's playground and street activities, undertaken as part of a course at the Eaton Hall College of Education in Retford (Not...
Ford Foundation Proposals
Center for Applied Linguistics
1965
This file contains photocopies of two typed papers originally printed in 'A Proposal to the Ford Foundation for Continued Support of the Center for Applied Linguistics' , vol. 1, Washington, D.C., 9 M...
Games Without Special Equipment
1959-1973
This file contains items relating to games played by children which require no special equipment. This includes an ms. letter from Doris Hepworth to Tony Green on the game 'Old Roger is Dead', accompa...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Weatherill and daughter Linda, recorded at home in Ainthorpe. Mrs. W. sings 'My Grandfather's Clock', 'Farmer's Boy' and one verse of 'Springtime in the Rockies'; talks ...