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english language - dialects5
community life5
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education4
occupations2
nature1
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health1
agriculture1
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Gibson, Dr Peter H5
Wright, John T3
Sykes, Donald Richard2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Wright, Peter2
Studio Jaanus Limited1
Williams, Mr Sym1
Playford, Averil H1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1

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Staffordshire Response Books

Gibson, Dr Peter H

1953-1954

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Staffordshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were...

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SED Fieldworkers Map
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SED Fieldworkers Map

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis, Peter Wright, Donald Sykes, Peter Gibson and John T. Wright. At the stage the map was produced, fieldwork ...

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SED Fieldwork Notebook Page: Ellenhall

Gibson, Dr Peter H

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by fieldworker Peter H. Gibson. The page includes responses from informant Mr. Williams of Ellenhall (Staffordshire), recorded on 12 August [?1953]...

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SED Fieldworkers Map

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Printed map showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Michael Barry, Howard Berntsen, Stanley Ellis, W. Nelson Francis, Peter Gibson, Marie Haslam, David Parry, Averil Playford, Donald Sykes, Jo...

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Survey of English Dialects Press Conference

Studio Jaanus Limited

31 October 1962

Audience at the press conference arranged for the publication of the first of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Basic Material volumes (The Northern Counties, Part 1), at the Waldorf Hotel, London....

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