Yorkshire Response Books
Description
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Yorkshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorded by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis and Peter Wright at Melsonby, Stokesley, Skelton, Egton, Dent, Muker, Askrigg, Bedale, Borrowby, Helmsley, Rillington, Burton in Lonsdale, Horton in Ribblesdale, Grassington, Pateley Bridge, Easingwold, Gargrave, Spofforth, York, Nafferton, Heptonstall, Wibsey, Leeds, Cawood, Newbald, Thornhill, Carleton, Welwick, Golcar, Holmbridge, Skelmanthorpe, Ecclesfield, Tickhill and Sheffield. Each response book bears ms. editorial markings relating to the editing of the recorded responses for publication in the SED Northern Counties Basic Material volume. Response books for Yorkshire were edited variously by Harold Orton, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Eugen Dieth and Eduard Kolb, ca. 1955-1956. The response books are retained in the numerical order assigned to SED localities, 6 Y 1-34.
Metadata
| Identifier | xzjcbyyr |
| IRN | 409601 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/2/2/6 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xzjcbyyr |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Questionnaire Response Books |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wright, Peter |
| Date | 1950-1953 |
| Size and Medium | 5 magazine files with 34 ms. response books. |