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culture13
community life10
manners and customs9
english language - dialects8
agriculture6
folk music6
nature6
occupations6
animals5
food5

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Dunn, Ginette2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Russell, Ian2
Smith, David2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Adcock, Mr1
Agg, Albert1
Ashford, Tom1
Bailes, John Lloyd1
Baker, Alice1
Andreas Response Book - 6aMan1
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Book IX: States, Actions, Relations [Andreas Response Book]

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

27 Oct 1958 - 31 Oct 1958

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

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

December 1971

Assembled company and soloist singing carols in the Royal pub, Dungworth near Sheffield, accompanied on the organ by Lol Loy. Recorded on 5 December 1971. Charlie Fretwell sings 'Song for the Time'. T...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

December 1971

Assembled company singing carols in the Black Bull pub, Ecclesfield, with brass accompaniment. Recorded on the 9 December 1971. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A191r.

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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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Sound Recordings, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male informant [as for tapes LAVC/SRE/A659r - A662r], recorded in New Zealand; talks about a poem he has written for the collector, and translates a Maori leavetaking. [Tr. 1] Copy recording of a gr...

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Ford Foundation Proposals

Center for Applied Linguistics

1965

This file contains photocopies of two typed papers originally printed in 'A Proposal to the Ford Foundation for Continued Support of the Center for Applied Linguistics' , vol. 1, Washington, D.C., 9 M...

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Archive File

Survey of English Dialects File 7

1960-1965

“SED Lectures”. Harold Orton’s ms. notes on index cards for the “Leeds ESU Talk” on the Survey of English Dialects, 9 July 1963; ms. notes on index cards for the talk to the “Leeds Rotaria...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

September 1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 9 September 1974; sings 'Granny's Song at Twilight', 'You Forgot to Remember', 'When You Played the Organ', 'When You're Feeling Blue', 'By the Waterfall', ...

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A Study in the Living Durham Dialect: A Contribution to an English Linguistic Atlas

Bailes, John Lloyd

1948

M.A. study of the dialect of seven communities in Durham, using the questionnaire compiled by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth (Bailes had accompanied them on three of their preliminary fieldwork visits i...

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Cottingley Fairies

1967-1977

This file contains items relating to the Cottingley Fairy photographs, and includes a photocopy of an article from the 'Times' (3 March 1921); a photocopy of a page from Harry Houdini's 'A Magician Am...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...

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