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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)
    guidebook to refer collectively to Northumberland and Durham. The Survey of English Dialects included Earsdon and Heddon-on-the-Wall in its fieldwork, administering...
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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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    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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