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Total number of records: 27

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	19
Archives	8

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	8
Brotherton Collection	1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
language and languages	27
culture	8
english language - dialects	8
ethics	8
conduct of life	4
geodesy	4
human reproduction	4
science	4
community life	3
french language	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau De (1698-1759)	4
Smith, Adam (1723-1790)	4
Blavet, Jean Louis	2
Blavet, Jean Louis (1719-1809)	2
Brerewood, Edward (1565?-1613)	2
Eidous, Marc Antoine	2
Whiter, Walter (1758-1832)	2
Alexander Johannesson (1888-)	1
Booth, Valerie	1
Cordemoy, Geraud De (1684)	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	3
From 1700	12
From 1800	2
From 1900	10

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	3
Up to 1799	12
Up to 1899	2
Up to 1999	10

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On the French Element in the English Regional Dialects

Stott, Prudence Ethel

[1970s]

Photocopied pages (69-83) from an M.A. (English Language) thesis, submitted to the University of Liverpool in 1934. These pages were copied from Chapter Four, and contain word lists grouped into distr...

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French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of a page from a published French language survey (unidentified), illustrating items 839 and 840 relating to the hitching and unhitching of wagons/farm carts drawn by draft animals. Each item is ...

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