A map displaying the localities included in the Survey of English Dialects
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 of Leeds. It aimed to collect the full range of speech in England and Wales before local differences were to disappear.[1] Standardisation of the English language was expected with the post-war increase in social mobility and the spread of the mass media. The project originated in discussions between Professor Orton and Professor Eugen Dieth of the University of Zurich about the desirability of producing a linguistic atlas of England in 1946, and a questionnaire containing 1,300 questions was devised between 1947 and 1952.[2]
^"Eighty-eight ways of saying left-handed", The Times, 8 September 1970
^"Where a snack is nummick - 16-year survey of dialect", The Times, 1 November 1962
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make some Englishdialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions without any prior exposure. The major native dialectsofEnglish are often...
the SurveyofEnglishDialects collected dozens of recordings of authentic Yorkshire dialects. Based on fragments of early studies on the dialect, there...
the University of Leeds, the SurveyofEnglishDialectssurveyed 313 sites across England, the Isle of Man and some bordering areas of Wales in the 1950s...
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guidebook to refer collectively to Northumberland and Durham. The SurveyofEnglishDialects included Earsdon and Heddon-on-the-Wall in its fieldwork, administering...
during the English Heritage Open Days. Skelmanthorpe was a site in the SurveyofEnglishDialects. The recording taken was notable both because of the rich...
collective set of different dialects and accents of Modern English spoken in Southern England. As of the 21st century, a wide class ofdialects labelled "Estuary...
Cheshire dialect at the time and not in Scouse. The 1950s SurveyofEnglishDialects recorded traditional Lancastrian dialect from the town of Halewood...
adopt the traits of the prestige variety instead of traits from local dialects. At the time of the 1950-61 SurveyofEnglishDialects, grammar and vocabulary...
alphabet in Black Country dialect, boosting the dialect's perception. The SurveyofEnglishDialects recorded several traditional dialects from in and around...
Hans Kurath. The Linguistic Atlas of England was the result of the SurveyofEnglishDialects, led by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth. The first computerised...
sociolects of the area. There were several villages in Cumbria that were used during the SurveyofEnglishDialects to minutely detail localised dialects. At...
the English Midlands, the West Country, other parts of Wales, and Ireland. The SurveyofEnglishDialects did not cover Cardiff but it did survey nearby...
it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialectsofEnglish throughout the British Isles taken...
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the SurveyofEnglishDialects (gathered in the 1950s) suggest that in addition to full pronunciation in syllable onset, uvular /r/ in these dialects was...
distinctive accents and dialects and occasionally use rhyming slang. The SurveyofEnglishDialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney in the...
prestige dialect, distinct from both RP and the working-class dialectof the region. England has a wider variety of regional dialects than larger English-speaking...
inherited from older dialects that existed in the area. Well-known accents and dialects in the United Kingdom are Cockney, Welsh English, Yorkshire, Scouse...
pudendum fem.") but not in the latter's 1905 EnglishDialect Dictionary. The 1950s SurveyofEnglishDialects recorded the word at several sites as the term...
Northumbrian dialect refers to any one of several traditional Englishdialects spoken in the historic counties of Northumberland and County Durham. The...
English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken...
terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tohoku dialects) to students...
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