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Total number of records: 45

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Archives20

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture21
Brotherton Collection2
English Literature2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Ripon Cathedral2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Quaker Collection1

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language and languages45
culture20
english language - dialects20
grammar, comparative and general8
animals7
nature7
ethnology6
basque language5
literature and folklore5
archive administration4

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)6
Adelung, Friedrich Von5
Adelung, Friedrich Von (1768-1843)5
Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732-1806)5
Humboldt, Wilhelm5
Humboldt, Wilhelm (1767-1835)5
Vater, Johann Severin5
Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826)5
Gellibrand, Samuel (1675)4
Martin, John (1641-1667)4

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"Inward" and "outward" : a study in early Quaker language

Creasey, Maurice Abner; Friends' Historical Society

1962

"The Presidential Address to the Friends Historical Society...delivered at Friends' House, London, on 5th October, 1961."

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Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft der Sprache

Hoefer, Albert (1812-1883)

V.1, pt.2 1846 Includes an article by A.F. Pott: 'Ueber die Sprache der Zigeuner in Syrien', pp. 175-186. Signature of Dora E. Yates, March 1932, on flyleaf Bd 2-4 include section "Sprachwissensch...

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Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft der Sprache

Hoefer, Albert (1812-1883)

Bd 1 - Bd 3, Heft 1/2 (1846-1851) Bd 2-4 include section "Sprachwissenschaftliche Bibliographie. Vom Herausgeber.". Imprint varies (Bd 3-4): Greifswald : C.A. Koch. Vol. 1 consists of 2 numbers...

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Criticisms on The diversions of Purley : In a letter to Horne Tooke, Esq

Bruckner, John (1726-1804)

1790

I. Cassander = John Bruckner. With a half-title; sig. A4 contains the errata. Indexed in: Alston III,

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 2

1951-1972

This file contains 'Some Acoustic Difference between Educated Australian and General American Dialects', by T. D. Hanley and Moya Landsberg Andrews, offprinted from 'Phonetica', volume 17, number 4 (1...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3

1960-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...

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Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets

1940-1974

This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...

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Orbis : bulletin international de documentation linguistique

Centre international de dialectologie générale

t.1, no.1 (1952)-t.31, no.1/2 (1982) [1985].

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SED Word Map: Aren't (I)
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SED Word Map: Aren't (I)

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question IX.7.4, Aren't (I), mapping responses Isn't, Isn, Int, In, Is I Not, Ain(t), En(t), Hin, Yent and Yunt. The map was compiled by Harold Orton and David No...

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SED Word Map: Aren't (I)
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SED Word Map: Aren't (I)

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question IX.7.4, Aren't (I), mapping responses Aren't, Ant, Arem'd, Bain(t), Ben(t), Bin, Binner, Byent and Byunt. The map was compiled by Harold Orton and David ...

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SED Word Map: Newt
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SED Word Map: Newt

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms. in colour, for SED question IV.9.8, Newt, mapping the limits of responses Ask, Asker(-t/d), Esk, Esker(-t/d), Askel and Asgel. The responses mapped are ...

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