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Yorkshire Dialect Society35
Halliday, Wilfrid J14
Cowley, Bill6
Dickins, Bruce (1889-1978)6
Dickins, Bruce6
Moorman, Frederic William (1872-1919)5
Witty, J. R3
Witty, J R3
Moorman, Frederic William2
Wade, Gwen2

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Archive File

Dialect Words for Left-Handed

Yorkshire Dialect Society

1956

This file contains responses, mainly from Yorkshire residents, to an appeal by the Yorkshire Dialect Society for dialect words for left-handed. The appeal was printed in the 'Daily Mail', the 'Yorkshi...

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Yorkshire dialects : proposed gramophonic recording

Bruff, Harald John Lexow; Yorkshire Dialect Society

[ca.1926]

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An anthology of West Riding dialect verse

Wade, Gwen; Yorkshire Dialect Society

[ca.1964]

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Yorkshire dialect poems : 1914-1943

Halliday, Wilfrid J; Yorkshire Dialect Society

1943

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Yorkshire dialect poems : 1914-1943

Halliday, Wilfrid J; Yorkshire Dialect Society

1943

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Yorkshire dialect poems : 1914-1943

Halliday, Wilfrid J; Yorkshire Dialect Society

1943

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Yorkshire dialect prose

Halliday, Wilfrid J; Dickins, Bruce (1889-1978); Yorkshire Dialect Society

1944

Cover title. "First published in September 1944."

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Yorkshire dialect prose

Halliday, Wilfrid J; Dickins, Bruce (1889-1978); Yorkshire Dialect Society

1944

Cover title. "First published in September 1944."

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Yorkshire dialect prose

Halliday, Wilfrid J; Dickins, Bruce (1889-1978); Yorkshire Dialect Society

1945

"Edited by W. J. Halliday and Bruce Dickins.".

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