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Total number of records: 17

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culture17
english language - dialects17
community life9
occupations7
literature and folklore5
nature5
animals4
folk music4
play4
transportation4

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Houck, Charles L3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
'Dusty'1
Baldwin, John R1
Bradley, Tom1
Bridges, P.1
Davies, Dick1
Davison, Cyril S.P.1
Dawes, George1

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West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 6

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 6: Baking. Includes questions V.6.1 Flour - V.6.12 Sad (of Bread or Pastry).

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Grammar, etc.: Gloucestershire

[1960s]

Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Gloucestershire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Deerhurst, Gre...

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Narrow Phonetic Transcription on the Computer: Taking the Phone off the Hook

Keil, Gerald C

1974

This file contains a photocopy of Gerald Keil's typed paper (17, [6] pp.) on the IMPAC project to index, map and analyse data collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), using a computer. The ...

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Derbyshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1955-1956

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Derbyshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were re...

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Lists of Forms

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 4

[1933-1978]

This file contains a paper napkin printed with pictures and numbers with words in Welsh and English (undated); Harold Orton's review of Eugen Dieth's 'A Grammar of the Buchan Dialect (Aberdeenshire), ...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...

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Sheffield Dialect Words

Ellin, Thomas R

1929-1934

Four notebooks of the address book variety, with A-Z thumb tabs down the right-hand side, containing collections of Sheffield dialect words. The first, bearing the words Where is it in gold lettering ...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mr. T. Maycock and Mr. T. J. Miller , recorded in Charlton-on-Otmoor. Mr. Maycock sings 'The Old Rustic Bridge' ; discussion of song repertoire; sings 'A Man's Too Old at Forty', 'Buttercup Joe', 'Wra...

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Trams, Railways and Boats

1967-1973

This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. The original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis in 1952, 1953 and 1955. The da...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Female sings 'Barbary Ellen' and 'Red Haired Sally' [second in Gaelic]. [Tr. 2] James Lyons relates a story about a Russian performing bear in Batley and Dewsbury (c. 1910s); and a clinkin' toad (wa...

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