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A Phonology of the Dialect of Rainow in the County Palatine of Chester
Dwerryhouse, Florence
1956
A study of the dialect spoken in Rainow, Cheshire, based on the written fieldwork recordings made by Peter Wright in 1951, for the Survey of English Dialects.
Dales (DCM): Daykin, Will
2022-2023
Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...
SED Phonological Map: Thursday
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question VII.4.3, Thursday, mapping responses with an unstressed vowel. The map is labelled as a draft.
Cumberland Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1953-1955
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Cumberland to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were re...
Beastings Research
Brunk, Wille
[1967]
Items relating to Wille Brunk's research into beastings, i.e. the first milk drawn from a cow after calving (or bovine colostrum), and its uses. Brunk conducted much of this research through the use o...
Places and Districts
1961-1978
The items in this sub-subseries relate to the study of particular localities, in particular placenames and their origins. The focus is on specific places in England and Wales.
Transcript: Cowley, Julian
Blackmore, Pete
2022-2023
Transcript of oral history interview conducted with named interviewee (see item title) as part of National Lottery Heritage funded, "Dialect and Heritage" Project.
Sound Recordings, Kent and London
Kemp, P K
September 1969
Bill Selsdon, recorded in Maidstone, describes hop picking in Headcorn (Kent) as a child with his family; accommodation in Hopper Huts; travelling from London (on the Hopping Train); hop picking seaso...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
09 Dec 1955
[Side 1] Bill talks about badger baiting, describes typical layout of 'earth' [= badger's den], comments foxes often take over 'berry' [= rabbit burrow] or earth but smell of fox usually forces badger...
A phonology of the north-eastern Scotch dialect on an historical basis
Mutschmann, Heinrich (1885-1955)
1909
Bibliography: pp. [vii]-x.
Return to the marshes : life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Young, Gavin (1928-); Wheeler, Nik
1977
Bibliography: p. 222.
Animals and Birds
1949-1981
This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...