• The Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects (SAWD) was commenced in 1968 under the direction of David Parry of University College, Swansea. The aim was to record...
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    School of English with help from three living fieldworkers from the original survey. Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects Cockney Cumbrian dialect East Anglian...
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  • David Parry (dialectologist) (category Alumni of the University of Sheffield)
    The Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Vol.2, The South-West, University College, Swansea, 1979 Robert J Penhallurick, The Anglo-Welsh Dialects of North...
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  • CLOTH. In his work for the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, David Parry adapted Wells's lexical sets for Anglo-Welsh dialects. Diaphoneme Homophone Minimal...
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    classification of four Welsh dialects remains the most academically useful: Gwyndodeg, the Gwynedd dialect Powyseg, the Powys dialect Dyfedeg, the Dyfed dialect Gwenhwyseg...
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    Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and some western parts of Nottinghamshire. The Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, which began in 1968, found that thou persisted...
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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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    revived form of Cornish. Welsh is spoken by 538,300 people in Wales according to the 2021 census, though data from the Annual Population Survey shows that...
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  • Harold Orton (category Academics of the University of Leeds)
    apply the same principles used for the SED to Welsh English, founding the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects (SAWD) at Swansea University in 1968. Many who...
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  • Clive Upton (category Alumni of the University of Leeds)
    student he was one of the original fieldworkers on the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects (SAWD). After a lectureship at the University of Malawi, he began...
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  • Cornish dialect (also known as Cornish English, Anglo-Cornish or Cornu-English) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people. Dialectal English...
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    who spoke various dialects of Germanic languages and who came to be known as Anglo-Saxons. The language that emerged from the dialects they brought to Britain...
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    "Anglo-Saxon", evolved from a group of North Sea Germanic dialects brought to Britain in the 5th century. Old English dialects were later influenced by Old Norse-speaking...
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    Wales (redirect from Welsh Peninsula)
    adopted, the concept of a British people, from which the Welsh would emerge, was created here.: 54  Encroachment by Germanic Anglo-Saxon settlers gradually...
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    least partial Welsh ancestry. Over 300,000 Welsh people live in London. The names "Wales" and "Welsh" are modern descendants of the Anglo-Saxon word wealh...
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    Manx English (redirect from Anglo-Manx)
    of English, including dialects from other areas in which Celtic languages are or were spoken, such as Welsh English and Hiberno-English. Early Anglo-Manx...
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    dialects of modern English in England, which were recorded in projects such as the English Dialect Dictionary (late 19th century) and the Survey of English...
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    language splitting into regional dialects, eventually evolving into Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Cumbric, and probably Pictish. Welsh and Breton continue to be spoken...
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  • David Parry, dialectologist who founded the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects Ivor Porter, ambassador and author of Operation Autonomous and King Michael (English...
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    Hen Ogledd (category Anglo-Saxon England)
    hundreds of years later, as shown in the Irish Brehon law, the Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda, and the Scottish Laws of the Brets and Scots. The Anglo-Saxon law...
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  • dialects of English throughout the United Kingdom taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish English, Welsh...
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    The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now...
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    people) of Wales' population, aged 3 or older, can speak Welsh, a decrease from 19% in 2011. Welsh English or Anglo-Welsh is the distinct form of English...
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  • Sub-Roman Britain on the eve of the Anglo-Saxon arrival. Besides the earliest extant Old Welsh texts, Breton is useful for its lack of English influence. The...
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  • lead to stigma from members of other classes or those outside Glasgow. As with other dialects, it is subject to dialect levelling where particularly...
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    (see Welsh Marches), and the traditional interpretation is that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the native Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon...
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  • NF: Norman French; OE: Old English (Anglo-Saxon); ON: Old Norse; P: Pictish; S: Scots; SG: Scots Gaelic; W: Welsh English Place-Name Society Germanic...
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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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  • accents and dialects are found throughout England, and people are often very proud of their local accent or dialect. However, accents and dialects also highlight...
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    Banshee (category Personifications of death)
    —in Irish: caoineadh ('weeping'), pronounced [ˈkɯiːnʲə] in the Irish dialects of Munster and southern County Galway, [ˈkɯiːnʲuː] in Connacht (except south...
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