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english language - dialects6
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Dunn, Ginette1
Halliday, Robert Wilson1
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)1
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Moore, Ann1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Pardon, Walter (1914-1996)1
Pegg, Bob1
Webb, Percy1

Archive File

West Midlands Responses: Book IX, Part 4

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book IX, Part 4: Verbs: Auxiliary. Includes questions IX.4.10 I don't care - IX.4.18 Durst not.

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Pegg, Bob

17 July 1977

Methodist Sunday School Anniversary service, recorded in Marsh, near Haworth and Oxenhope (West Yorkshire). The Preacher (retired), Reverend Ian Johnson, introduces proceedings; the congregation sings...

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Sound Recordings, Norfolk and Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

June 1975

Singing at the Norwich Folk Festival, 21 June 1975. Bob Hart sings 'Rose of Tralee'; Percy Webb sings 'She's Proud and She's Beautiful'; Bob Hart sings 'Australia'; Percy Webb sings 'Nutting Girl'; Bo...

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Dialect and Linguistic Pamphlets

1940-1974

This file contains 19 dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints, deposited in the Dialect File. Many include inscriptions from the author to Harold Orton. Includes: - Der La...

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Dialect recording in Todmorden, West Yorkshire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Apr 1939

[Side 1] Speakers demonstrate local pronunciation of Keelam Heights, discuss Chartist Meetings at Basin Stones (1842), recall local characters and all night sessions playing dominoes and cards at ale ...

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A Description of the Dialect of New Hartley, Northumberland

Halliday, Robert Wilson

1972

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of New Hartley in Northumberland, based on interviews with four local informants.

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