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baked products2
community life2
culture2
english language - dialects2
food2
food industry and trade2
occupations2
quarries and quarrying2
agriculture1
animals1

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Cornwall8
Egloshayle8
England8

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Rickards, William Thomas Leonard10
Wright, John T9
Pascoe, Harriet Elizabeth2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Pearce, Richard Arthur1
Stephens, Thomas Wesley1
Wakelin, Martyn F1
Egloshayle Response Book - 36Co3
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Egloshayle Response Book - 36Co3

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

29 March 1963

Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

24 November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...

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Book I: The Farm [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the farm. The answers of informant Leonard Rickards recorded by fieldworker John Wright in the Internationa...

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Notes [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Notes section at the rear of the response book. Includes biographical information about the informants. Includes notes on the locality. Includes phonetic notes on the dialect of the locality. ...

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Book II: Farming [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to farming.

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Book III: Animals [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to animals.

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Book IV: Nature [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to nature.

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Book VII: Numbers, Time and Weather [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to numbers, time and the weather.

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Book IX: States, Actions, Relations [Egloshayle Response Book]

Wright, John T

21 Nov 1958 - 24 Nov 1958

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to states, actions and relations.

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