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Died. 7 March 1975. (1975-03-07) (aged 76) Leeds. Occupation (s) professor of English language, dialectologist. 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 .
- 7 March 1975 (aged 76), Leeds
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 ...
Two professors, Harold Orton from the University of Leeds and Eugen Dieth from the University of Zurich, were discussing the wide range of dialects in England. These dialects, particularly in rural and remote parts of the country, give language scholars valuable clues about how English was spoken in the past – as far back as the Middle Ages.
10 mar 2011 · Thu 10 Mar 2011 09.58 EST. Emeritus Professor Harold Orton, who gave 54 years to the recording of English dialects, has died at Leeds aged 76. His monument, the massive Survey of English...
Linguist, Phonetician. Eugen Dieth (18 November 1893, in Neukirch an der Thur – 24 May 1956, in Zollikon) was a Swiss linguist, phonetician and dialectologist. He is well known for his work in English and German phonetics, and for co-initiating the Survey of English Dialects .
The Survey of English Dialects (SED) Originally initiated by Harold Orton and fellow dialectologist, Eugen Dieth (University of Switzerland) in the 1930s, the interruption of the Second World War meant that the Survey of English Dialects (SED) was eventually undertaken between 1951 and 1961 under the direction of Orton, then Professor at the ...
The ‘Survey of English Dialects’ was the name of the publishing programme launched in 1962, which published a number of books of findings in tabular form, and the cherished The Linguistic Atlas of England, edited by Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, and John Widdowson, in 1978.
