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Houck, Charles L4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
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Brown, George1
Brown, I. M.1
Clarke, William1
Cotmore, Mrs1
Dawes, George1
SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Scallions and Chibboles. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of England.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Young Onions and Shallots. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of England.

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Chipples, Chibboles and Gibbles. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of En...

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Early-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, mapping the distribution of responses Spring Onions and Green Onions. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of Eng...

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SED Phonological Map: Man/Mon Line
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SED Phonological Map: Man/Mon Line

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

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental phonological map which maps man/mon phonology using examples from responses to SED questions VIII.1.6 Man, VI.7.1 Hand, and IV.6.16 Gander. The map includes an isogloss of the man/mon lin...

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SED Word Map: Spring Onions
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SED Word Map: Spring Onions

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question V.7.16, Spring Onions, showing the distribution of responses Scallions, and Chibboles. The map is completed in typescript, labelled Fig.22, and headed Li...

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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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Worcestershire Response Books

Sykes, Donald Richard

1951-1955

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

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Cheshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter; Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1951-1957

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

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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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Traditional Song: General

1963-1979

This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...

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Sound Recordings, County Durham

Upton, Clive S

May 1974

[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site...

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