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West Midlands Responses: Book IV, Part 12
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IV, Part 12: Parts of a Tree. Includes questions IV.12.1 Root - IV.12.5 To Lop.
Grammar, etc.: Worcestershire
[1960s]
Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Worcestershire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Romsley, Hartle...
West Midlands Responses: Book VII, Part 8
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VII, Part 8: Measures. Includes questions VII.8.1 Quart - VII.8.10 Handful/Double handful/Arm...
SED Phonological Map: Wh- Pronunciation
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms. in colour, mapping the pronunciation of Wh- in responses to SED questions V.5.8 Whey, I.5.12 Whip and V.10.7 White. The...
SED Word Map: Come In! (To Pigs)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in typescript, for SED question III.10.1(c), Come In! (to Pigs), mapping the distribution of responses Giss, Pig and Tig. The map is headed Linguistic Atlas of...
SED Word Map: Without
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.10a, Without (i.e. in reference to having no sugar in tea), mapping responses Without, Athout, Adout, Bid...
Sound Recordings, Cheshire
Harrop, Peter K
4 November 1978
Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Spinner and Bergamot pub, Comberbach. [Gap/drop-out during Beelzebub's speech.] [Tr. 8] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
June 1971
Charles Green singing at home in Dungworth, near Sheffield. Recorded 10 June 1971. [Tr. 8]. This session concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A123r (AC048, Tr. 4). Billy Perkins singing and talking at home in...
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 ...
Language Papers
Strevens, Peter
1961-1966
This file contains a typed draft version of a paper for a Festschrift for Daniel Jones, 'Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, and Other Components of Language-Teaching' (1961), 15 leaves; a typed working d...
Folk Drama: General
1956-1980
This file contains a copy of Alex Helm's typed 'Index of Folk Plays' (complete to June 1956), [41] leaves, with ms. annotations; a copy of 'Traditional Drama: S[urvey of] L[anguage and] F[olklore]. Re...
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...