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Archive File

Folk Medicine: A Bibliography

Smart, Shona

1978

A compilation of English-language book and journal article titles relating to folk medicine. A date range is not given. The collector states in the Introduction that the purpose of the bibliography ...

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Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury Diagram
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Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury Diagram

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Ms. line diagram of a beer barrel, labelled according to the terminology used in Queensbury (West Yorkshire). The labelling and title of the diagram is in typescript. The diagram was drawn by Pamela A...

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Survey of English Dialects

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1936-1966

The papers contained within this sub-subseries describe the genesis and development of the Survey of English Dialects (SED), Harold Orton's collaboration with Eugen Dieth, their methodology, fieldwork...

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The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding

Ambler, Pamela J

1954

A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire. An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels ...

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