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Celebrating variation: Harold Orton and dialectology, 1898–1998

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Katie Wales  and
Clive Upton
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Abstract

A centenary discussion of the work and the on-going influence of a pioneering English dialectologist

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 27 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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