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culture28
english language - dialects28
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Wright, Peter29
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)10
Barry, Michael V (1935-)5
Sykes, Donald Richard3
Wright, John T3
Berntsen, Howard N2
Gibson, Dr Peter H2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Atkinson, Tom (1880-1880)1
Bill1

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The Yorkshire yammer : how it is spoke

Wright, Peter

1986

Bibliography: p32.

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Regional Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Wright, Peter

1945-1946

This file contains a collection of printed and published maps which appear to have been used during the mapping of fieldwork localities for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). SED localities are hig...

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Yorkshire Response List: Mouse
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Yorkshire Response List: Mouse

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question IV.5.1, Mouse. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular form ...

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Yorkshire Response List: Birch
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Yorkshire Response List: Birch

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question IV.10.1, Birch. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular form...

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Yorkshire Response List: Boughs
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Yorkshire Response List: Boughs

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question IV.12.2, Boughs. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular for...

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Phonology of the Dialect of Fleetwood, Lancashire

Wright, Peter

1949

A study of the dialect spoken in Fleetwood in Lancashire. A number of leaves have been removed from this piece of work, and as a consequence the current item starts at Chapter Three, on the developmen...

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SED Fieldworkers Map
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SED Fieldworkers Map

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis, Peter Wright, Donald Sykes, Peter Gibson and John T. Wright. At the stage the map was produced, fieldwork ...

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A Grammar of the Dialect of Fleetwood (Lancashire), Descriptive and Historical

Wright, Peter

1954

Ph.D. containing in its first volume a treatment of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[53], the modern equivalents of the Middle English vowels and consonants, and an account of the syntax and m...

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Yorkshire Response List: Coal
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Yorkshire Response List: Coal

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question IV.4.5, Coal. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular form w...

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Yorkshire Response List: Boot(s)
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Yorkshire Response List: Boot(s)

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question VI.14.23, Boot(s). The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular f...

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Herefordshire Response Books

Sykes, Donald Richard; Wright, Peter

1952-1955

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Herefordshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were...

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Lyonshall Response Book - 15He7
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Lyonshall Response Book - 15He7

Wright, Peter

16 Jun 1952 - 19 Jun 1952

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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