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culture6
nature6
plants6
english language - dialects5
community life2
entertainment events2
folklore2
holidays2
language and languages2
literature and folklore2

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Chamberlain, John S1
Cross, Mrs1
Frear, Mr1
Frear, Mrs1
Love, Mrs1
Sykes, Herbert1
Sykes, Mrs1
Wright, Peter1

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West Midlands Responses: Book IV, Part 10

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IV, Part 10: Trees, Bushes. Includes questions IV.10.1 Birch - IV.10.13 Fern.

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Yorkshire Dialect Map: Birch
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Yorkshire Dialect Map: Birch

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Ms. map showing responses collected in locations in Yorkshire to SED question IV.10.1, Birch. The responses are listed in phonetic script.

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Yorkshire Dialect Map: Birch
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Yorkshire Dialect Map: Birch

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Ms. map showing responses collected in locations in Yorkshire to SED question IV.10.1, Birch. The responses are marked on the actual map in phonetic script.

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Yorkshire Response List: Birch
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Yorkshire Response List: Birch

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question IV.10.1, Birch. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular form...

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Spring and Summer Festivals

1963-1981

This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...

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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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