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Archive File

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.

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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...

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SED Phonological Map: Thursday
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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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A phonology of the north-eastern Scotch dialect on an historical basis

Mutschmann, Heinrich (1885-1955)

1909

Bibliography: pp. [vii]-x.

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Return to the marshes : life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Young, Gavin (1928-); Wheeler, Nik

1977

Bibliography: p. 222.

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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...

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