Harold Orton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was a British dialectologist and professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds.
HaroldOrton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was a British dialectologist and professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University...
was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor HaroldOrton of the English department of the University of Leeds. It aimed to collect...
Milky Way. Professor HaroldOrton, (1898–1975) a noted 20th-century linguist and English dialectologist was also born here. HaroldOrton was the son of a...
of England was the result of the Survey of English Dialects, led by HaroldOrton and Eugen Dieth. The first computerised linguistic atlas was the Atlas...
John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career...
instrumental in the early stages of the Survey of English Dialects conducted by HaroldOrton between 1950 and 1961, helping to develop, amongst other things, a questionnaire...
and this was in a slightly different code to the modern IPA. Led by HaroldOrton at the University of Leeds, the Survey of English Dialects surveyed 313...
studies to take social factors into account. Under the leadership of HaroldOrton, the University of Leeds became a centre for the study of English dialect...
Alexander John Ellis (author of On Early English Pronunciation, Part V) and HaroldOrton (co-founder of the Survey of English Dialects), were fascinated by the...
fishing in Icelandic waters in the fifteenth century". In Barrett, James Harold; Orton, David C. (eds.). Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval...
nurse-north merger in dialects of English in northeast England. In addition, HaroldOrton reported that the Burr caused retraction of following alveolar consonants...
of English. HaroldOrton compiled a database of dialect forms for 35 locations in Northumberland and northern Durham, known as the Orton Corpus. In 1973...
Significant members of the society have included Joseph Wright, Walter Skeat, HaroldOrton, Stanley Ellis, J. D. A. Widdowson, K. M. Petyt, Graham Shorrocks, Frank...
almost impossible to get accurate information about difficult points." HaroldOrton told his fieldworkers on the Survey of English Dialects that they had...
linguistic survey of England had been begun by HaroldOrton in 1950. In 1968, Sanderson agreed to co-edit with Orton a linguistic atlas based on the English...
George Armstrong was educated at King James I Grammar School. Linguist HaroldOrton was educated at King James I Grammar School. 17th century politician...
the work for the Survey of English Dialects and compiled—together with HaroldOrton—the Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England. Dieth, Eugen (1932)...
concentration camp where he was executed on 6 September 1944. Lieutenant HaroldOrton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was an English university lecturer and...
debuted on stage in 1961 as part of a triple bill, alongside A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter and The Form by N.F. Simpson and was well received.: 153 The cast...
as Airfield Guard Guy Standeven as Squadron Leader Andrew Venn as Bert Harold Bennett as Old Man (Drophead Charlie) Harry Locke as Cycle Shop Owner TV...
poster Directed by Charles Frend Screenplay by Kathleen White Produced by HaroldOrton Cinematography John Coquillon Edited by John Bloom Music by Clifton Parker...
Leeds Studies in English with the old crew vanished'. A. C. Cawley and HaroldOrton saw volumes 7 and 8 through the press as a single volume in 1952 and...
Orton Chirwa (30 January 1919 – 20 October 1992) was a lawyer and political leader in colonial Nyasaland and after independence became Malawi's Minister...
College, Cambridge from 1946. He was succeeded as professor at Leeds by HaroldOrton, and in some respects also by A. R. Taylor.[citation needed] At Cambridge...
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