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Total number of records: 55

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Books and printed items45
Archives10

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english language36
language surveys36
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english language - dialects6
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Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)55
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)50
University of Leeds. Department of English Language and Medieval English Literature37
Barry, Michael V (1935-)9
Halliday, Wilfrid J9
Tilling, P M (1938-)9
Wakelin, Martyn F9
Orton, Harold5
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Literary and Historical Section2

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Questionnaire Version 1

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1946-1947

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 1 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; correspondence with the Yorkshire Dialect Society; an ms. notebook and fieldwork response books belonging t...

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Questionnaire Version 2

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1948-1949

This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...

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Questionnaire Version 3

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1949-1950

This sub-subseries includes typescript papers on the progress of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire and Survey of English Dialects (SED) plans; typescript drafts of version 3 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnai...

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Questionnaire Version 4

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1950-1951

This sub-subseries consists of typescript drafts of version 4 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. These drafts were used in the testing of this version of the Questionnaire.

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Published Versions of the Questionnaire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1952-1953

This sub-subseries includes ms. fieldwork response books completed by Harold Orton, recording the testing of version [5] of the Questionnaire in locations in Essex and Shropshire; the Dieth-Orton Ques...

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Questionnaire Response Books and Related Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1931-1965

This series contains items which relate in the main to the collection of fieldwork data for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). The practical starting point for the SED was the production of the Die...

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Dieth-Orton Questionnaire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1931-1953

This subseries consists of items relating to the compilation and testing of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, which forms the basis of the fieldwork for the SED. The subseries includes drafts of the Ques...

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New Survey of Dialectal English Memorandum

Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1952

A paper (8 leaves) compiled by Eugen Dieth and Harold Orton, and dated 22 February 1952, on the aims and objectives of, and fieldwork methodologies to be used in, research for the Survey of English Di...

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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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