A Historical Description of the Living Dialect of Poynton, Cheshire
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in Poynton, Cheshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with five local people during the Easter and summer of 1960. An introduction to the town and the informants is followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1960, describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables, consonants), and present a tabular summary of Old English, Old French, Old Norse, Middle English and other sources of the stressed vowels of the dialect of Poynton. An Appendix provides notes on Poynton mining terms recorded in the study. Photographs show views of the town and two of the informants, taken in 1959 and 1960.
Metadata
| Identifier | jr6fpx7s |
| IRN | 410275 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/239 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jr6fpx7s |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Ashurst, B W |
| Date | 1961 |
| Size and Medium | 98 bound ms. leaves; 5 b/w photographs. |