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occupations68
english language - dialects60
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Bond, Francis Keith7
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Pearce, Ben3
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Leeming, Chris2
Longthorne, Fred2
Richardson, Mr J. C.2
Sacksfield, Jack2
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)2

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Tristan da Cunha

1968

Pp. 399-400 of the 'British Dental Journal' for 5 November 1968. This originally formed part of an article surveying dental cavities and associated problems on Tristan da Cunha. A paragraph including ...

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A Study of the Implicit Metaphors in Selected Fairy Tales and Their Use in Modern Literature and the Media

Ross-Glass, Ruth M

1982

Ph.D. thesis considering the sociological and psychological significance of the implicit metaphors of ten popular fairy tales and their recurrence in contemporary life and literature. Each fairy tale ...

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Marble-Finishing

1980

This file contains a cutting from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' on Allan Preston, a tradesman skilled in the art of giving surfaces a marble-effect finish (14 July 1980).

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Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items

[ca. 1950]

This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.

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Dales Pony
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Dales Pony

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1966

Informant R. L. Peacock with thoroughbred modern Dales working pony, Scarhouse Farm, Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. Also mounted on the card is a newspaper cutting from the 'Northern ...

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Aspects of English Witchcraft

Hagger, C S L

1964

M.A. dissertation (Department of English Literature) on witchcraft in England and New England, focussing on what people have felt, said, written or done about it. In doing this a summary is given of t...

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New Dialect Publication Proposals

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1969-1983

This file comprises correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and others on proposals for dialect-related publications following the completion of 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). This includes...

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Yorkshire Castles

Taylor, Alfred

1962

This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Round Yorkshire Castles' series, published in and extracted from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The complete series ran from July - October (?) 1962, a...

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House Types

1971-1979

This file contains items relating to different types of dwelling house, including cuttings from 'The Guardian' newspaper and 'Country Life' magazine on a medieval aisled house in Castle Caereinion use...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 1

1971-1972

This file contains a mounted newspaper cutting from 'The Guardian' on the Survey of English Dialects (SED) and the publication of the final Basic Material volumes (4 October 1971); an ms. letter from ...

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War Verse

Shearman, Morgan John

1976

This file contains a photocopy of ms. pages from a war diary kept by Morgan John Shearman, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the South Wales Borderers during World War One. The diar...

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Press Reports and Reviews

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1935-1959

Newspaper cuttings taken from local, regional, national and international issues reporting the work of Orton and the Survey, fieldwork, lectures given by Orton, local dialect and other language-relate...

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