Dialect Words for Left-Handed
This file contains responses, mainly from Yorkshire residents, to an appeal by the Yorkshire Dialect Society for dialect words for left-handed. The ap...
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
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Weather Lore as Observed in Disley and Surrounding Districts
A study of weatherlore known to the inhabitants of Disley in Cheshire, based on fieldwork interviews, responses to a circular letter and a letter to t...
English Dialect Sound Recordings (Northern England)
The majority of recordings were made for the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects, in 1938 and 1939. This survey was inaugurated at Armstrong College, Newc...
Dialectal English and the student
Reprinted from the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, 1947. "Lecture delivered at the first Sheffield post-war meeting of the Yorkshire ...
A questionnaire for a linguistic atlas of England
"Reprint, with separate pagination, of Part IX of Vol. VI, Literary & Historical Section, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society"--...
Haaf Net: Detail
Detail of haaf net by boatshed on the River Lune near Glasson (Lancashire). Shows end of horizontal spar, or bauk. Mounted on Photo File card with LAV...
Decadent Local Industries: Pottery and Quarrying
This volume contains two articles written by James Walton for the 'Some Decadent Local Industries' series of articles published in the 'Transactions o...
Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Bretforton Response Book]
Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the house and housekeeping. The answers of informant Geor...
Pack-Horse Bridge at Yockenthwaite
Old stone pack-horse bridge over the River Wharfe at Yockenthwaite ( Langstrothdale). Mounted on Photo File card. Originally held in Photo File: Bri...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminolog...