Harold Orton

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Harold Orton

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Linguistics

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According to Wikipedia, Harold Orton was a British dialectologist and professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds. Early life Orton was born in Byers Green, County Durham, on 23 October 1898 and was educated at King James I Grammar School, in Bishop Auckland, and at the University of Durham. He left university in 1917 to enrol in the Durham Light Infantry in which he was commissioned as a lieutenant. He was wounded severely in 1918, never regaining full use of his right arm, and was invalided out of the army in 1919. He insisted to army surgeons that his arm not be amputated.

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Harold Orton's Published Works

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Survey of English dialects (1962) (169)
The linguistic atlas of England (1979) (167)
A word geography of England (1978) (33)
The six Northern counties and the Isle of Man (1962) (16)
The East Midland Counties and East Anglia (1969) (10)
The Southern Counties (1967) (8)
A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England (1953) (5)
The beginnings of English literature to skelton 1509 (1952) (4)
Leeds Studies in English and Kindred Languages (1953) (2)
Remarks upon field work for an English linguistic Atlas of England (1953) (1)
York Minster Screen: A Specimen of the North Riding Dialect (1833) (1939) (0)
Harold Orton 1898–1975 (1975) (0)
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University of Leeds