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Wakelin, Martyn F8
North, David J5
Dyson, B Ronald2
Berntsen, Howard N1
Creasey, Maurice Abner1
East, Alice1
Friends' Historical Society1
John, Tom1
Jones, Mr Reginald1
Kylstra, Henk E1
SED Word Map: Partition
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SED Word Map: Partition

Wakelin, Martyn F

[1960s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.3.2, Partition, mapping responses Skell and Scale. The map was compiled by Martyn Wakelin, and is dated Aug...

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SED Word Map: Scythe
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SED Word Map: Scythe

Wakelin, Martyn F; Dyson, B Ronald

[1960s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question II.9.6, Scythe, mapping the response Lea. The map was compiled by B. Ronald Dyson and Martyn Wakelin, and is ...

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SED Word Map: Rivulet
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SED Word Map: Rivulet

Wakelin, Martyn F; Dyson, B Ronald

[1960s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question IV.1.1, Rivulet, mapping responses Burn, Beck and Brook. The map was compiled by B. Ronald Dyson and Martyn W...

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Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Essex

Berntsen, Howard N

1962

M.A. thesis comprising three volumes. Volume One contains six chapters, the first being a description of the Essex sounds recorded in 1958, 1959 and 1961. Chapters Two to Six treat the development of ...

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SED Word Map: Scraps
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SED Word Map: Scraps

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question III.12.10, Scraps, mapping responses Craps, Scraps, Scratchings, Cracklings and Cratchings. The map is labelled as a draft.

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SED Word Map: Scraps
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SED Word Map: Scraps

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question III.12.10, Scraps (i.e. the leftovers from rendered lard), mapping the distribution of responses Craps, Scraps, Scratchings, Cracklings and Cratchings. T...

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SED Word Map: Children
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SED Word Map: Children

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question VIII.1.2, Children, mapping responses Children, Chilren, Childern, Chilern, Childer, Childers and Childs. The map is labelled as a draft.

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Atlantic States Dialect Areas Map
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Atlantic States Dialect Areas Map

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of Map 2 from Hans Kurath and Raven I. McDavid's 'The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States' (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961), showing the speech areas of the Atlantic St...

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SED Word Map: Children
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SED Word Map: Children

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question VIII.1.2, Children, mapping responses Children, Chilren, Childern, Chilern, Childer, Childers, and Childs. The map was compiled by Martyn Wakelin and Dav...

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SED Word Map: Dovecote
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SED Word Map: Dovecote

Wakelin, Martyn F; North, David J

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question I.1.7, Dovecote, mapping responses Cove, Pigeon-Cove, Dove-Cot(e), Pigeon-Dove-Cot(e), Dove-House, Pigeon-Dove-House, Locker, Pigeon-Locker, Pigeon-Cot(e...

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"Inward" and "outward" : a study in early Quaker language

Creasey, Maurice Abner; Friends' Historical Society

1962

"The Presidential Address to the Friends Historical Society...delivered at Friends' House, London, on 5th October, 1961."

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

Parry, David (1937-); Kylstra, Henk E

1960-1961

[Collector announcement (Parry)]; Tom John, recorded in Pontlottyn [possibly in 1960]; talks about horse feed; straw rope; (Welsh) calls to cattle and horses; farm waggons/carts; ploughing and the qua...

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