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Sullivan, Keith Frederick5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Ellerby, George3
Dunn, Ginette2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)2
Bergal, Nancy Ann1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Collins, J M Mrs1
Curtin, John1
SED Phonological Map: Writing
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SED Phonological Map: Writing

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question VIII.6.6, Writing, mapping the various vowel types found in responses. The map was compiled by Harold...

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Yorkshire Sayings

Metcalfe, Graham (1945-)

[1970s]

Ms. list of Yorkshire sayings and rhymes, mostly in dialect, and two Yorkshire riddles, collected by Graham Metcalfe, a Yorkshire native born in Poppleton, and resident in York at the time of writing.

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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 ...

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West Midlands Responses: Book VIII, Part 6

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VIII, Part 6: School. Includes questions VIII.6.1 Go to school - VIII.6.6 Writing.

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

17 March 1977

George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the collector's research and his moving to Whitby; GE's schooling in Castleton, including singing; comments on h...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

6 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he sang on previous recording sessions; copyright in songs; making (amateur)...

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Papers on Allendale Town Dialect

Dixon, Hubert

[1929-1969]

This file contains a typed series of articles, originally written for the 'Hexham Courant' (ca. 1929-1939), on the dialect of Allendale Town, Northumberland. The author, Hubert Dixon, was a native of ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 October 1973

Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; talks about a book by Bernard Woods; ancient maps; the works of Canon Atkinson; seventeenth century wage fixing, wages of tradesmen, child labour; FW's wor...

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A Phonological Investigation of Dialect Content Among Traditional Singers of English Folk Song

Tawney, Cyril

1977

M.A. (Dialectology) study which takes as its starting point comments on phonology in folk singing made by Percy Grainger (writing about Lincolnshire singers in the 'Journal of the Folk Song Society' i...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

15 November 1972

Children of Armley Park School in Leeds talk about children's reading and writing; where they live; tell jokes (including English/Irish/Scottish and rude); collector tells a joke; children discuss the...

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Fieldwork

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1945-1974

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research and surveys, their collaboration on a linguistic atlas of England and the development of an English dialect questionna...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he knows, and the problems of writing them down in Yorkshire dialect; his so...

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