Glossaries, Etc.
Description
These files contain four undated typed papers, annotated in ms., containing dialect glossaries (mostly Yorkshire based) and data on Yorkshire folklife, and diagrams illustrating wagons and cottages. The first file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations and corrections, headed 'Glossary of the Dialect of the Lower Nidderdale Districts: Ripon, Knaresborough, Harrogate, and Adjoining Places'(68-111 [i.e. 43], 1-31 leaves). This consists of two alphabetical word lists with definitions, with additional sheets on placenames, similes, sayings, weatherlore and sayings related to farming. The second file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations and corrections, headed 'Notes on the Dialects of Parts of the British Isles'(137 leaves). This consists of alphabetical word lists with definitions, divided into sections according to British regions. The data, however, is incomplete, with no word lists for a number of regions. Word lists exist for West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Durham, Westmorland and North Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Ely. There are also a number of blank headed sheets for regions where no data has been collected. The third file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations and corrections, headed 'Vocabulary and Pronunciation of the Dialect of Yorkshire in the North and East Ridings, and the City and Ainsty of York; that is to say the Vales of Mowbray, York, Pickering, Ouse, and Derwent; the Hills and Dales of Blackamore and the Wolds; and the Coast about Whitby Strand, Scarborough, Filey, Flamborough, Bridlington, etc.'. This comprises an alphabetical list of words from North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire, with definitions. The fourth file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations and corrections, headed 'Yorkshire Notes'(98, [2] leaves). This consists of collected information and dialect data in themed sections: - 1. Placenames (with pronunciations) - 2. Local archaeology; plans; underground passages, etc. - 3. Folktales and stories attached to local places - 4. Folktales and stories not so attached - 5. Stories about Irish casual-labourers - 6. Stories about Wold-rangers, Gypsy Traveller communities, roadsters, cadgers, etc. - 7. General and funny stories, and jokes - 8. Similes, proverbs, rhymes, songs, sayings - 9. Anniversaries, and other customs - 10. Superstitions: the heavens, supernatural, luck and not - 11. Old farming methods, e.g. harvesting and threshing by hand - 12. Old wagons, carts, farm implements, etc. - 13. Old cottages; plans - 14. Old fieldnames, etc. - 15. Underground rivers. The fifth file contains a letter to Harold Orton on the Wolds wagon (6 June 1950); seven ms. diagrams of wagons, including the Scotch Cart, with ms. notes; and two ms. diagrams showing the chimney construction and floor layout of a cottage in Navigation Yard, Castlegate, Malton, demolished in 1931, with ms. notes. The diagrams were perhaps intended as part of Hudleston's 'Yorkshire Notes' paper.
Metadata
| Identifier | pd1vx2tl |
| IRN | 410434 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/NSP/20 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pd1vx2tl |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Non-Student Research Papers |
| Creator(s) | Hudleston, Nigel A |
| Date | [1950s] |
| Size and Medium | 5 files of typed papers and ms. diagrams. |