Bill, it's just possible that the Great Work has been picked up by the
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, Address: 9 Shearwood Road,
SHEFFIELD S10 2TD Enquiries/secretary: (0114) 22 26296 Fax: (0114) 276
8251
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/uni/projects/cectal/
- certainly they have a repositary of information at the University of
Sheffield, and have been engaged in some kind of dialect mapping since
1964. They look a bit folksy to me, but they may be able to point you
onwards. Failing that, how about Oxford UL as a last known address? Best,
RC
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, brian bransom griffiths wrote:
> Dear List,
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> Can anyone tell me the whereabouts of the English Dialect Society?
> They seem to have been based in Oxford, but folded about 1900 when
> the multi-volume Dialect Dictionary was produced. Presumably they
> felt their work was over. Yet there must be a considerable cache of
> their papers and so on, especially the reports from local members by
> which dialect information and perhaps texts were collected.
>
> Any ideas where to look?
>
> Thanks....
>
> Bill Griffiths
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