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Wakelin, Martyn F8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)7
Wright, John T3
Lobb, Francis James2
Lobb, Mrs.2
Willey, William Henry2
Galsworthy, John1
Heard, Richard1
Hurd1
Jago, James1

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Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F

1969

Ph.D. thesis based on field data recorded in 1958 by John Wright, for the Survey of English Dialects (SED); tape recordings made in the same seven SED localities by the collector and Stanley Ellis in ...

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Cornish Dialect Recordings

Wakelin, Martyn F

July 1963

This file contains documents relating to Martyn Wakelin's Cornish dialect recordings. Including 2 pages of Wakelin's diary from 14 - 27th July 1963; a report of Wakelin and Philip Tilling’s visit to...

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Orthographic Transcriptions

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

1956-1963

Typed transcriptions (by Stanley Ellis) of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) audio-recordings, made in Horsington (1956) and South Zeal (1963); and a typed paper by Martyn Wakelin, 'The...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks o...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-...

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Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

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