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    The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University...
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    the Survey of English Dialects collected dozens of recordings of authentic Yorkshire dialects. Based on fragments of early studies on the dialect, there...
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  • make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions without any prior exposure. The major native dialects of English are often...
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    the University of Leeds, the Survey of English Dialects surveyed 313 sites across England, the Isle of Man and some bordering areas of Wales in the 1950s...
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  • delimiters. The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of the broader...
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    collective set of different dialects and accents of Modern English spoken in Southern England. As of the 21st century, a wide class of dialects labelled "Estuary...
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  • Sample". Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society: 1–5. "Golcar, Yorkshire - Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | British Library -...
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    Geordie (redirect from Geordie English)
    supporter of the football club Newcastle United. Geordie Schooner glass was traditionally used to serve Newcastle Brown Ale. Like all English dialects, the...
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    regional variations are considered to be dialectal forms. The Survey of English Dialects captured manners of speech across the South West region that...
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    Thornhill, West Yorkshire (category Use British English from May 2016)
    a couple of Indian takeaways. The area was covered by the Survey of English Dialects in the belief that it was a hotbed of Yorkshire dialect. A 2005 study...
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  • alphabet in Black Country dialect, boosting the dialect's perception. The Survey of English Dialects recorded several traditional dialects from in and around...
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    Scouse (redirect from Liverpool English)
    Cheshire dialect at the time and not in Scouse. The 1950s Survey of English Dialects recorded traditional Lancastrian dialect from the town of Halewood...
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    Skelmanthorpe (category Use British English from February 2019)
    during the English Heritage Open Days. Skelmanthorpe was a site in the Survey of English Dialects. The recording taken was notable both because of the rich...
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    sociolects of the area. There were several villages in Cumbria that were used during the Survey of English Dialects to minutely detail localised dialects. At...
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  • it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken...
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    adopt the traits of the prestige variety instead of traits from local dialects. At the time of the 1950-61 Survey of English Dialects, grammar and vocabulary...
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    verification] The dialects of this region are descended from the Northumbrian dialect of Old English rather than Mercian or other Anglo-Saxon dialects. In his seminal...
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  • "conservative forms" of Welsh English spoken in rural locations in Wales. The methodology was based on that used in the Survey of English Dialects carried out...
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  • American English British English American and British English spelling differences English phonology Survey of English Dialects List of dialects of the English...
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    Northumbrian burr (category Dialects of English)
    the Survey of English Dialects (gathered in the 1950s) suggest that in addition to full pronunciation in syllable onset, uvular /r/ in these dialects was...
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  • Cockney (redirect from Cockney English)
    distinctive accents and dialects and occasionally use rhyming slang. The Survey of English Dialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney in the...
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    uk/Accents-and-dialects/Survey-of-English-dialects/021M-C0908X0010XX-0500V1 Ronague https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Survey-of-English-dialects/021M-C0908X0011XX-0200V1...
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    Knurr and spell (category History of Yorkshire)
    Countryfile. 30 January 2011. BBC One. "Golcar, Yorkshire - Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | British Library - Sounds". sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved...
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    the English Midlands, the West Country, other parts of Wales, and Ireland. The Survey of English Dialects did not cover Cardiff but it did survey nearby...
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  • Erdbebendienst) Tata Power SED, Tata Power Strategic Electronics Division Survey of English Dialects Strategic Economic Dialogue Sed card, a "portfolio-on-a-card"...
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  • prestige dialect, distinct from both RP and the working-class dialect of the region. England has a wider variety of regional dialects than larger English-speaking...
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    Linguistic map (redirect from Dialect atlas)
    Hans Kurath. The Linguistic Atlas of England was the result of the Survey of English Dialects, led by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth. The first computerised...
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    extremely varied, as is recorded in Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and the Survey of English Dialects, but they have died out over time so that regional...
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    Northumbrian dialect or Northumbrian English is any one of several traditional English dialects spoken in the historic counties of Northumberland and...
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  • Twat (category English profanity)
    pudendum fem.") but not in the latter's 1905 English Dialect Dictionary. The 1950s Survey of English Dialects recorded the word at several sites as the term...
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