At first glance, the longer, “meatier” items of the nineteenfifties would seem to make the task of the indexer somewhat easier, as there were fewer “items” to list: in actual fact, however, any indexer worth his salt becomes in the end only too aware that “meat” makes for greater detail hidden in the body of the text, and that for reasons of economy of space many minor references must simply be overlooked. One would suppose that indexing is strictly non-partisan and objective, but this invidious selection has involved choices: choices in favour, I hope, of the student of dialect and Yorkshire heritage, and disadvantaging only the more peripheral interests. And some choices have, for better or worse, fallen into the category of subjective and personal. And I couldn’t resist the urge to capture, in a tiny way, some of the flavour of what I read, by quoting, especially from the verses.
Adamson, Mr Joseph Isaiah, A Mey-as i’t Porridge (A Mouse in the Porridge). Discourse in Holmfirth dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 43-45.
ADDINGHAM, funeral customs. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp32-35
ADWALTON HORSE FAIR (June 1631). 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 35-40.
Ambler, Pamela J., The Terminology of the Beer Barrel at Queensbury in the West Riding. diagrams p 22 & p 24. “The bung, known as the shive [ʃα·ιv]…” (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published in 1955} pp 21-26.
Andrews, Sir Linton, Joseph Wright the Man. “It was an astonishing career.” (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 12-21.
author unknown, Tewsdi at th’Afternooin. Song in dialect from Holmfirth. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 24-25.
author unknown, A Poor Owd Cotton-Spinner. Song in dialect from Holmfirth. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 26-28. music notation page 27.
BARREL-MAKING. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 21-26.
BARNES, WILLIAM (1800-1886). Dorset dialect poet. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 22.
Binns, A.L., Humber Words. “Can one really speak of a Humber dialect as distinct from a professional vocabulary? … there is comparatively little difficulty in establishing past usage in it.” Much discussion of place-names, as well as boat-handling terminology. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} pp 10-25.
BLAKEBOROUGH, RICHARD – “did more for Cleveland dialect than any other writer”. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Brown, Fred, A Weyver’s Vision. Poem in dialect. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 49.
Brown, F., Gi’ Us Peace. Poem in dialect. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 54.
Brown, Fred, To t’Little Singers. Poem in dialect. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} page 49.
Brown, Fred, A Washday Sandwich. Poem in dialect. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 52.
Brown, Fred, T’ Singin’ Heart. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 11.
Brown, Fred, T’ Banker. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 11.
Brown, Fred, T’ Visitors. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 12.
Brown, Fred, T’ Exile. Poem in West Riding dialect.
Ah’m feelin’ t’sting
O’t’ whip-crack wind;
Wheer t’; drum-winged
Pheasants start.
1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 11.
Brown, Fred, T’Shadder Show. Poem in West Riding dialect. “On the night of 14th Feb. 1818 a fire broke out at Atkinson’s cotton mills at Colne Bridge, near Huddersfield. 17 young girls between…9 and 18 years [old] perished in the flames. The doors were locked, and the key mislaid.” 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 12.
Brown, Fred, Mother-Love. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 9.
Brown, Fred, Re-Formation. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 9.
Brown, Fred, Not for Viewing. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 10.
Brown, Fred, Wunce upon a Pobby-Tahme. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 10.
BROWNE, REV. THOMAS (1771-1798), 5 dialect poems used anonymously as basis of Specimens of Yorkshire Dialect, several editions. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
BRUGMANN, Professor, and Comparative Philology, passim, in: Firth, J.R., Joseph Wright the Scholar. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 22-33.
BURNS, ROBERT, Kilmarnock Edition, reviewer: “We much regret that these poems are written in some measure in an unknown tongue”. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
BYRE. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 45. Calvert, Kit, St. Luke’s Gospel, Chapter II – a Wensleydale Version. “She lapped him in a barrie cooat an’ laid him in a manger.” (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 49- 50.
Calvert, Ralph (informant), Cowley, W. (amanuensis), Sleddale Fifty Years Ago. Prose piece in dialect. “Ther was sum grand Swardil type yowes meead 23[shillings &]/6[pence] – an’ coos were ower twenty pund.” 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 18-19.
Calvert, T.C., St. John’s Gospel, Chapter XXII, in the Dialect of Hawes, North Riding. “This is t’disciple ’at maks knawn these things, an’ puts em doon o’ paper, an’ we knaa at w’at he writes is treuth – an’ ther’s for ivver maar things ’at Jesus did, seea monny ’at if the’ wer oa’ putten doon, ah sud say ’at this wo’ld wadn’t hod t’beuks ’at wad hev t’ bu meead.” 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 49-51.
Calvert, T.C., Wensleydale Cheese. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 32-35.
Carter, F.A., Owd Acquaintance. Poem in dialect about Joseph Wright. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 55-56.
Carter, F.A., Greeting to Yawborough. Poem in dialect. “Yawborough being the “miniature Ingleborough [a mountain] that dominates Burtersett in Upper Wensleydale.” 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 44.
Carter, F.A., Some’dy Special. Poem in dialect about a character in “Upper Wensladill”. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 12.
Carter, F.A., Yorkshire Swallers. Poem in dialect about the birds Hirundo rustica on the point of migrating to Africa. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 13.
Carter, F.A., Trinity Burton Feast. A fair at Trinity, when all the mills near Huddersfield laiked [had a holiday] for three days. Names for “feasts”: “Awmbry Rush, Long’od Thump, Yetton Rant – Yetton being, of course (!), Kirkheaton.” 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp 25-28.
Carter, F.A., Creepin’ Buttercup. Poem in West Riding dialect.
Me creepin’ buttercups
Has flaars ’at’s fair ablaze
Wi’ yaller breet as owt…
1960 {Part LX. Volume X}. page 11.
Carter, F.A., Anticlimax. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 11.
CASTILLO (JOHN) (1792-1845) – work (unfairly?) dismissed as “unreadable except, perhaps, to old Methodists and students of the dialect” in Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Cawley, A.C., A Modernised Version of the Wakefield First Shepherds’ Play. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} pp 25-38.
Cawley, Prof. A.C., Hippological Proper Names [in Chaucer]. E.g. surname Courtauld from curtal, docked horse. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp17-19.
Chappell, J., Nobbut Nattural. Poem in dialect. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 52.
Clare, Elsie, “Curtain Up” at Elwin. Prose piece in dialect. “Wa’t wi’…a hawf o’ suet parkin aw’d buttered for him, ’e wa sooin lookin as praad as a dog wi’ two tails at his neight’s wark, an ’e warn’t long affooar ’e wa’ chelpin on abaat another piece for t’bedroom floor.” 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 55-56.
Clare, Elsie, Aat o’ t’Fryin’ Pan. Prose piece in West Riding dialect. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 35- 37.
Clare, Mrs Elsie, “Copped wi’ a Leg Up” Prose piece in West Riding dialect. A husband attempts to make an evening meal for his sick wife. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} pp 54-56.
CLOG-IRON MANUFACTURE. 1951 {Part L. Volume IX} pp 39-48.
COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY, passim, in: Firth, J.R., Joseph Wright the Scholar. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 22-33.
CONTENTS OF VOLUMES: Brief listings of contents appear in all issues, up to the previous issue. From Volume I, Part I. The latest and fullest list, up to Part LIX, Volume X, is therefore: 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 65- 72.
COOPERING, Vocabulary of. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 21-26.
COW-HOUSE. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 45.
Cowley, W., The Technique and Terminology of Stacking and Thatching in Cleveland. “Afoor yu begin ti theeak, fost of owt yu want a good riggin-batten ti levil ’er up.” (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 35-40.
Cowley, Bill, Off ti t’Show: A Ballad of Stokesley Show Forty Years Since. Poem in dialect.
An’ t’lads an’ lasses oot o’ t’deeals
Wad tthramp i’ draves ti t’Show.
(1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 49-50.
Cowley, W., Farm Names. Poem in North Riding dialect. Swinacle, Ankness, Slapewath … Stingamires, Stink … 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X}page 13.
Cowley, W. (amanuensis) – see Calvert, Ralph.
Cowley, W., Book Review of: Yorkshire Lyrics, by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, selected by Wilfred J. Halliday. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 44-45.
COWLING, GEORGE H., A Yorkshire Dialect Reciter, circa 1925. ). . . – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
CRAVEN WORD LIST “by the late Mr. Merrall”. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 14.
CROSLAND HILL. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 26-31.
CUMBERLAND – see LAKELAND.
DENT, West Riding – see Hedevind, B.
Dent, A.A., Heimweh. Translation of Eduard Mörike’s German poem into dialect. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 57.
DORSET DIALECT POETRY. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 22.
DOYLE, EZRA, 396 lines of Polly’s Gaon “unreadable”. . – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Doyle-Davidson, W.A.G. – see under “editors”.
DRY-STONE WALLING. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 33-44.
Dyson, Two Old Songs from Holmfirth. music notation page 27. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 22-28.
Dyson, B.R., transcriber, A Reminiscence in Holmfirth Dialect. Also see: Adamson, Mr Joseph Isaiah. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 43-45.
editors, Book Review, of: Rhyme an’ Reason, a collection of dialect verse by F.A.Carter. “Mr F.A. Carter has contributed weekly articles in dialect to the Huddersfield Examiner for the last thirty years.” 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 55.
editors, announcement of a dialect-writing competition of “Some theme closely connected with [the] life [of Joseph Wright] …in any dialect of English spoken in Great Britain.” (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} page 31.
editors (Orton, Harold & Doyle-Davidson, W.A.G.), Editorial “On Saturday 29th October 1955 the Society celebrated the centenary of its virtual founder, Joseph Wright, Yorkshireman…” (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 5-7.
editors, The Cow-House in Northern Dialect To-Day. Map of vocabulary distribution. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 45.
editors (Orton, Harold & Doyle-Davidson, W.A.G.), Editorial: “Sheep-counting…not what form the system takes, but whether anyone living to-day has ever himself used these quaint terms…or …heard them used.” 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 5-7.
Ellis, Stanley, A Note on the Vocabulary of the Lathe or Barn in Upper Wharfdale in the West Riding. Diagram of shuppon and barn (cow sheds). “The handling and fitting together of the large rough stones was a job for a man brought up on dry-walling.” 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 44-49.
Ellis, Stanley, Fieldwork for a Dialect Atlas of England. How the fieldwork is carried out, and what it attempted at this time to find out – who are the oldest natives of the village “of the right type” 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 9-21
Ellis, Stanley (jointly with Harold Orton & Peter Wright), “Left- Handed” in Yorkshire. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 39-41.
Ellis, Stanley, Yorkshire Expressions for “To Play Truant”. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} pp 48-49.
Ellis, Stanley, No Lament. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 12.
English, Brenda H., Come thy Ways. Poem in North Riding dialect, on this “typical understatement of Yorkshire hospitality”. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 14.
English, Brenda H., Bummelkites. Poem in North Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 14.
English, Brenda H., Greavin’ for Turves. Poem in North Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 14.
ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY. passim in Joseph Wright the Man. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 12-21.
EQUESTRIAN – see HORSES.
EQUINE – see HORSES.
Fairfax-Blakeborough, Major J., Dialect Land-Words. An entertaining general romp around dialect words and expressions. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 11-22.
Fairfax-Blakeborough, J., Yorkshire “Talk”. A further foray into dialect words and expressions. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 21-22.
Fairfax-Blakeborough, J., A Note on Equine Terms in Yorkshire. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp 21-24.
FARM NAMES – see Cowley, W.
FEDERER, C.A., Bibliography of Yorkshire Dialect Literature (Bradford 1901) – “Between 1837 and 1891 no less than 25 almanacks appeared in 16 West Riding towns”. . – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Firth, J.R., Joseph Wright the Scholar. “In the 19th century any philologist worthy of the name had to read German…after studies at Heidelberg, Leipzig and Freiburg, he was able…to add greatly to the body of work on English philology in English.” (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 22-33.
FLETCHER, J.S., dramatic poem Leet Livvy (1915, 1919). . – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Francis, W.N., The Present State of the American Dialect Atlas. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} pp 36-41.
Goundrill, G.J., Growin’ Taties. Prose piece in dialect describing the cultivation of Solanum tuberosum. Note on author’s spelling conventions. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 51-53.
Goundrill, G.J., Ploughing and Pressing Wheat on the Wolds Thirty Years Ago. “Well noo, wa’r riddy to mak a start, an wa yoke up three ’osses it decker ant two awd meears it press.” (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 40-47.
HALIFAX DIALECT. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 23-28.
H(alliday), W.J., announcement of death of Dr. J.D. Jones (qv.) 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 58-59.
H(alliday), W.J., Book Review, of: Fair North Riding, by Alfred J. Brown (Country Life Ltd.). 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 59- 60.
H(alliday), W.J., Book Review, of: The Seeing-Glass: A Comedy in One Act, by Austin Hyde Village Drama Society Plays, published by H.F.W. Deane & Sons Ltd. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 61.
H(alliday), W.J., A. Stanley Umpleby, 1887-1953. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 37-38.
H(alliday), W.J., Book Review of: Jingling Lane. A Dramatised Idyll in a Yorkshire Dale, by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (Lund Humphries & Co 1954). “There is movement, there is witty dialogue.” (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 56- 57.
H(alliday), W.J., Book Review, of: Yorkshire Life, Humour and Characters, by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough. “His 105th [book]…a racy style adds to the reader’s pleasure ”. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 58-59.
Halliday, W.J., Appeal. Poem in dialect appealing for contributions:
Come on, ye bards, and frame yersens,
What maks ye all se hesitant?
Sit dahn reit nah, an’ tak yer pens,
An’ follow t’lead o’t’ President.
1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 9
H(alliday), W.J., Book Review of: Rhymes of a Yorkshire Hamlet, by Brenda H. English. (Horne & Son Ltd., Whitby, 18 pages). “The North Yorkshire dialect is used with grace and skill”. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 36.
Halliday, W.J., Frozzen. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 13.
HARTLEY, JOHN, “the doyen of Yorkshire Dialect poets”, Clock Almanack. . – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Harwood, H.W., Similes and Aphorisms in the Dialect of Halifax. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 23-28.
Hedevind, B., Scandinavian Elements in the Dialect of Dent in the West Riding of Yorkshire. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} pp 26-35.
Hedger, Ruth, Sheep i’ t’ Chochyard. Poem in dialect. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 34.
Hedger, Ruth, Twitchbells. Poem in North Riding dialect. Twitchbells = earwigs, Forficula sp. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 15.
Hedger, Ruth, Fit fer Owt. Poem in North Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 13.
H.O., Book Review, of: Icelandic Spring, by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (Bodley Head, London, 1950). An account of travels in Iceland. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 54.
HIPPOLOGICAL – see HORSES
HOLMFIRTH DIALECT. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 43- 45.
HORSES, terminology concerning. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp 17-24.
Horspool, Robert, Mad Lallie. Poem in dialect.
They werrick [“laugh in a half-suppressed manner”] an’ goffen [“giggle idiotically”] an’ run awaay.
(1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 51-52.
Hudleston, N.A. Farm Wagons of North East Yorkshire. Map showing “cart”/“wagon” boundary page 38, photographs of wagons facing pages 42 & 43. Terms for parts of old wold polewagon page 43. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 37-43.
Hudleston, N.A., Jottings from a Farmer’s Notebook. Names and words connected with horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs. (Sheep counting with its Welsh-like numerals seems strangely isolated from other dialect.) 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 23-28.
Hudleston, N.A., The Terminology of Fences, Ditches and Gates in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire North Riding. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 46-51.
Hudleston, N.A., Notes on Yorkshire Words relating to Horses. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 20.
HUMBER – see Binns, A.L.
Jackson, Mrs F.E., Ah Wonder!. Poem in East Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 17.
Jefferson, Gordon, T’Owd Frith Stooil. Prose piece in dialect concerning the famous ancient chair at Beverley Minster. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 57-58.
Jefferson, Gordon, Kate Carliss. Narrative poem in North-west Yorkshire dialect. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 46-48.
JERVAULX ABBEY, Cistercian monks perfect cheese-making. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 32-35.
JONES, Dr. J.D., Obituary of then oldest Y.D.S. member, provided Historical Notes on the Sheffield Dialect for Transactions 1913. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 58-59.
Kökeritz, Helge, Shakespeare’s Use of Dialect. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} pp 10-25.
LAKELAND DIALECT POETRY – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
LAKELAND DIALECT SOCIETY, meeting with, at Temple Sowerby. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 13.
LANCASHIRE DIALECT SOCIETY a “bonny wick bairn”. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 9.
Leary, Nigel, On t’Surface. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 14.
LEET LIVVY (dramatic poem in dialect) 1915, 1919). – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
LEFT-HANDED IN YORKSHIRE. Dialect map page 40. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp39-41.
LEICESTERSHIRE – see Playford, Averil H.
LINCOLNSHIRE DIALECT VERSE (Tennyson’s). 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 22.
LISTS OF MEMBERS1:
1. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX} pp 58-72.
2. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 64-78.
3. 1953 – see footnote
Maycock, J.C., A Survey of Bird-Names in the Yorkshire Dialects. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 29-32.
Maycock, J.C., A Survey of Yorkshire Dialect Bird Names: An Interim Report (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 47-48.
Maycock, J.C., A Survey of Bird-Names in the Yorkshire Dialects (Some results of the above enquiry) Dialect maps for lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), hedge-sparrow (Passer montanus), starling (Sturnus vulgaris). 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 28-38.
M.H. Lost. Poem in dialect about entries for poetry competition, lost in the post for a year. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 52.
MISTAL. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 45. 1 Lists only before 1953 are mentioned, to preserve the privacy of those listed.
Moody, F.W., The Nail and Clog-Iron Industries of Silsden in the West Riding. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} pp 39-48.
Moody, F.W. Members’ Activities. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 38-41.
M(oody), F.W., Book Review of: Laeves Fae Vagaland, by T.A.Roberston (Shetland Times, Lerwick, 1952). “To most…readers…the language of the [Shetlands] dialect poems will prove difficult. …There is a glossary.”
“Trou wir minds wir ain aald language
Still keeps rinnin laek a tön”
1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 41-42.
Moody, F.W., Funeral Customs at Addingham, Y(orkshire) W(est) R(iding). 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp 32-35.
Moore, Scholes, A Lovely Lass is Shoo…Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 13.
Moore, Scholes, Love Song. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 13.
Moore, Scholes, Painted Cottage. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 15.
Moore, Scholes, Nobbut a Leet… Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 15.
MÖRIKE, EDUARD, Heimweh. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 57.
NAIL MANUFACTURE. 1951 {Part L. Volume IX} pp 39-48.
NEWBOULT, F.J. Society member, contributed dialect sketches to the Yorkshire Observer Budget under the name of ABE CLEGG. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 7-8.
North, Gordon Allen, Epitaph for A.S.U. 1887-1953. For A. Stanley Umpleby:
He coom amang us,
Sang his songs,
Towt us mich –
And went his way.
Quoted in full, but also: 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 33.
North, Gordon Allen, The Dead Bairn. From the German of Paul Heyse. Poem in dialect. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 33.
North, Gordon Allen, Night Shift. Poem in dialect.
T’ neet shift’s still an haar ta run,
An’ t’ dayleet’s nobbut muck on t’ winders.
(1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 56.
North, Gordon A., My Dear, Dear Friends… Poem in dialect. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 51.
North, Gordon A., An’ So Be It… Poem in dialect. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 51.
North, Gordon A., Magnum. Poem in dialect.
Mi starin’ eager een wor filled
Wi’ t’rowlin’ hills raand Huthersfild.
(1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 53.
North, Gordon Allen, Tak’ yo’r Chances…Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 15.
North, Gordon Allen, Ah’m Comin’ Back. Poem in West Riding dialect.
Ah’m fain for t’tang o’ peeat ageean…
1958. page 16.
North, Gordon Allen, Country Station. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 16.
North, Gordon Allen, Song to the Sun. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 17.
North, Gordon Allen, Joseph Wright 1855-1930. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 14.
North, Gordon Allen, The Bent Oak. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 14.
North, Gordon Allen, The Accident. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 15.
North, Gordon Allen, Sleep a While. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 12.
North, Gordon Allen, September Morn. Poem in West Riding dialect.
Entranced bit t’ purple distance, breet as dreams.
1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 12.
North, Gordon Allen, The Wall. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 13.
(Orton, Harold, A New Survey of Dialectal English – A paper read on 16th February 1952 at a meeting of the Lancashire Dialect Society. 8 pages. Loose in copy of 1952 Transactions.)
Orton, Harold (jointly with Stanley Ellis & Peter Wright), “Left- Handed” in Yorkshire. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 39-41.
O(rton), H(arold), Book Review, of: Over Hill, Over Dale, by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Bodley Head, London 1956. Dialect poems have glossary useful for “fremd folk”. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 49.
Orton, Harold, Yorkshire Terms for Earwig and for the Mid- Morning Meal. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 52-55.
Orton, Harold – also see under “editors”.
Paterson, R., Dialect as a Museum “Display”. The use of a buttonoperated tape of dialect speech. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 46-48.
Peacock, N., appeal for information on Mummers’ Folk Plays. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 48-49.
Playford, Averil H., Some Significant Word-Distributions in the Dialects of Leicestershire and Rutland. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} p 42-47.
PLOUGHING AND PRESSING WHEAT. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 40-47.
POOR, dialect writers “not dialect poets” (sic) – dealt with the hard lot of the poor. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
POOR DIALECT VERSE, “poor … or hackneyed subjects…faulty rhythm, poor rhymes…weak dialect…prolixity” 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 22.
Quirk, R. & Smith, A.H., Some Problems of Verbal Communication. “Writers like Phyllis Bentley, J.B.Priestley, Thomas Armstrong, and Winifred Holtby … the speech which they invent for their characters gives an adequate impression of dialect without becoming too obscured by local vocabulary, idiom” &c… (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 10-20.
Quirk, Randolph, “Dialects” within Standard English. “Like ‘Chinese’, the term ‘English’ is…a fiction, an abstraction, conveniently summarising a wide range of different, partly selfcontained forms of communication.” 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} pp 29-42.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Coom thi Ways In. Poem in dialect. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 51.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Muther-Lorn Lamb. Poem in dialect. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 52.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Pup i’ t’Kirk. Poem in dialect. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 53.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Stanley Umpleby. Poem in dialect. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 32.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Second o’ June, 1953 (The date of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II). Poem in dialect.
…ivery
Bonnie ripplin’ beck
A-laikin’ doon brant hillsides…
1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 32.
advert for: Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Jingling Lane, A Dramatised Idyll in a Yorkshire Dale (Lund, Humphries & Co., 12 Bedford Square, London W.C.1). 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 43.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, For a Penny. Poem in dialect.
To be on t’ling wheer moorlarks hoäm.
(1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} page 48.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, It’s a Hallock (= a tiring journey). Poem in dialect.
Sitha! here’s my sheep-cur, watchin’ by milk-kits (milk churns – metal containers for milk left on a stand by the entrance to the farm to be collected by the dairy). (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 50.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, T’ Black-Faced Lamb. Poem in dialect.
More nor a hundert yowes is placed
On t’hillside heaf…
(1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 51.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Wild Daffodils at Temple Sowerby. Poem in dialect. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 42.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Ballad of t’White Dog. Poem in dialect.
They hear t’dog o’ Yockentwaite
Huntin’ i’ Langstroth Chase.
1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 42.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, T’ Fox Cub. Poem in dialect. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 43.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, A Vast o’ Space. Poem in dialect. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 44.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Gaffer’s Spring. Poem in dialect. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published in 1958} page 50.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Ann Street in April (Bairn Rhyme). Poem in dialect. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 50.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Puppy Delia (Bairn Rhyme). Poem in dialect. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 51.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Migrants. Poem in dialect about migrating birds. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 9.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Roadmen, Wallers, Woodmen. Poem in dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 10.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Bairn Rhymes (iii): T’Gowk. Poem in dialect about the cuckoo bird, Cuculus canorus. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 10.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Owd Ponies. Poem in dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 10.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Easter Day. Poem in dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 10.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Will’s Stead. Poem in dialect.
For wheer is t’lass ’at wud bide here,
In t’stead far end o’neeäwheer?
1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 11.
editorial mention of: Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Yorkshire Lyrics (Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., for the Yorkshire Dialect Society). 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 5.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, T’Lavrock. Poem in North Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X}. page 8.
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una, Deserted Pup. Poem in North Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X}. page 8.
Robertshaw, Wilfred, Adwalton Horse Fair. Dialect in an extract from the toll-taker’s book of the horse fair of 1631, with glossary of terms. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 35-40.
RUTLAND – see Playford, Averil H.
ST. JOHN’S GOSPEL, CHAPTER 22. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 49-51.
ST. LUKE’S GOSPEL, CHAPTER 2. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 49-50.
Sanderson, Stewart F., Yorkshire in a New Folk-Life Survey. “In “In Wales the centre of these activities is the Welsh Folk Museum…in Ireland…the first impulse came from the study of the Irish language…In 1948 the University of Edinburgh started a Linguistic Survey of Scotland…dialects of Scots and Gaelic.” 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 21-34.
SCOTS POETRY, “Our Inglisch”. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp. 30-31.
SCRIPTURE IN DIALECT – see Calvert, T.C.
SHEEP COUNTING. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 19-20.
SHIPPON. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 45.
SILSDEN. 1951 {Part L. Volume IX} pp 39-49.
SKEAT, Professor WALTER WILLIAM, connection with ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY. passim in Joseph Wright the Man. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 12-21.
Smith, A.H – see Quirk, R.
SOMERSET DIALECT POEMS. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 22.
SOWERSBY, MOSES (1846-1916), Recitations in the Folk Speech of East Yorkshire and Other Poems. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
SPENCER, RICHARD, T’Yorkshire Puddin, 640 lines in Field Flowers, (Batley 1890) “unreadable”. . – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
STACKING AND THATCHING. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 35-40.
Stark, Kathleen, Think on, Bairn. Poem in dialect.
Ah likes ti ev thi helpin’ me
Ti fodder t’ beeasts, or fetch a stee (ladder)…
(1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 52.
Stark, Kathleen, T’ Recklin. Poem in dialect. Recklin = the runt or starveling in a litter of pigs. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} page 54.
Stark, Kathleen, Greeat-Gramma’s Tea-Cups. Poem in East Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 15.
Stark, Kathleen, At York. Poem in East Riding dialect.
Has ta been ower Lendal Brigg
When t’early mornin’ leet
Tons t’Ouse ti siller?
1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 16.
Stark, Kathleen, T’Stoggy. Poem in East Riding dialect.
A stoggy’s gentle coo…up in t’tree.
1960 {Part LX. Volume X} page 16.
Suttcliffe, Irene, Johnny’s Flittin’. Poem in North Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 17.
SWEDISH DIALECT INSTITUTE, UPPSALA. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 8.
Sykes, D.R., Dialect in the Quarries at Crosland Hill, near Huddersfield, in the West Riding. “A quarry is known as a delfhole [̍dεlfɒιl] …” (Compare North Staffordshire delf in Dilhorne and Biddulph – Compiler) (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 26-31.
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD, writing in Lincolnshire dialect. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} page 22.
THOYL, “untranslatable” (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 33.
TURNER, WALTER F., Goodies and Other Stories in a Yorkshire Dialect. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Umpleby, Stanley, Feather-Bed Farming. Poem in dialect. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 52.
Umpleby, Stanley, T’Au’d Man’s Winter Winda-Sill. Poem in dialect, with 15 words glossed. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 53.
UMPLEBY, A. STANLEY. Tribute on his resignation. Photograph facing page 10. “Mr Umpleby was an innovator in dialect verse composition … ballade … villanelle, roundel and sestina … in Transactions.” 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 10-12.
Umpleby, A. Stanley, Dialect Verse and Verse-Writing. “A vast number… of …writers of Yorkshire Dialect Verse…” (See this index) 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
UMPLEBY, STANLEY, 1. obituary poem in dialect. 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} page 32;
2. prose obituary 1953 {Part LIII. Volume IX} pp 37-38.
Vine, George (of Sowerby Bridge), Runnin’ Repairs. Prose piece in West Riding dialect. “ ‘ ’Owld a chizzil fer thee, ya gurt beyatwit!,’ shoo sez. ‘Ah wodn’t owld a chizzil fer thee … net if tha wer brayin’ it wi’ feathers…’…Yo uts wed knows full weel wat coomt’ next. An’ yo ut isn’t can guess ut rest wer owt but silence.” (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 52-56.
Wade, Gwen, Greetin’ for Thee. Poem in dialect. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} page 51.
Wade, Gwen, T’ Dairymaid’s Plaint. Poem in dialect. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 53.
Wade, Gwen, T’ Dale wor mi Creddle-Bed. Poem in dialect. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} page 54.
Wade, Gwen, A Woman’s Wark, or, Martha and Mary. Poem in dialect. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 54-55.
Wade, Gwen, Bethinksome Lass. Poem in dialect.
I’s thrang as onny bee, lad,
Wi’ scores o’ jobs to dew.
1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 45.
Wade, Gwen, Visiting Day. Prose piece in West Riding dialect. (1957) {Part LVII. Volume X, published 1958} pp 57-58.
Wade, Gwen, Littondale. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 18.
Wade, Gwen, Braisby’s Greys. Poem in West Riding dialect.
Like es two cobs on t’ bough
Wos Braisby’s greys;
Gradely matched to plough,
Stall-mates all their days.
1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 19.
Wade, Gwen, Her Bieldy Spot. Poem in West Riding dialect. bieldy = sheltered. 1958 {Part LVIII. Volume X} page 20.
Wade, Gwen, Dotherer. Poem in West Riding dialect.
Coom! Mak’ thi mind up, lass…
1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 16.
Wade, Gwen, Bairn’s Kesmass. Poem in West Riding dialect.
…In t’ starleet dim,
I’d seen thruff t’ mistal door a glim.
1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 16.
Wade, Gwen, Moocher. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 16.
Wade, Gwen, Yorkshire Ailments. 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp 29-31.
Wade, Gwen, Lines to our Editor. Poem in West Riding dialect. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 17-18.
Wade, Gwen, Jiggit. Prose piece in West Riding dialect concerning a lost sheep and sheep-counting rigmarole. 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 19-20
Watson, J, T’ Month o’ June. Poem in dialect. 1951 {Part LI. Volume IX.} page 50.
WATSON, RICHARD, “the Middleton-in-Teesdale miner” and dialect poet. – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
Wenham, L.P., The Horners of Hornpot Lane, York. List of horner’s tools – are they in east Riding dialect? 1960 {Part LX. Volume X} pp 41-43.
WENSLEYDALE CHEESE. (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} pp 32-35.
WENSLEYDALE DIALECT version of St. Luke’s Gospel, Chapter 2. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 49- 50.
WESTMORLAND, dry-stone walling terminology (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 33-44
WESTMORLAND – also see LAKELAND.
Williams, Gerald, Dry-Stone Walling in South Westmorland: The Craft and its Terminology. Illustration page 34. (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 33-44.
Wilson, R.M., Book Review of: George Merriton’s “A Yorkshire Dialogue” 1683. (YDS reprint). 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} pp 36-37.
WINDHILL DIALECT, (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 30-31.
WRIGHT, MRS. E.M., reference to her book The Life of Joseph Wright (Oxford University Press 1953). (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} page 31.
Wright, Mrs. Elizabeth M., Recorded message concerning her late husband, Joseph Wright: “A 7-year-old ‘doffer’ in Saltaire…[he] began to educate himself, when he was 14…” (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 10-11.
WRIGHT, JOSEPH, (1954) {Part LIV. Volume IX, published 1955} page 31.
WRIGHT, JOSEPH, CENTENARY OF: (1955) {Part LV. Volume IX, published 1956} pp 5-7, pp 10-11, 12-21, 22-33, 55- 56. also: 1959 {Part LIX. Volume X} page 14.
Wright, Peter (jointly with Harold Orton & Stanley Ellis), “Left- Handed” in Yorkshire. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} pp 39-41.
YAWBOROUGH. 1956 {Part LVI. Volume X} page 44.
YORKSHIRE DIALECT POEMS 1673-1915. (Introduction by Professor Moorman) – See: Umpleby, Dialect Verse &c. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 15-36.
“YORKSHIRE” WORDS IN MIDDLE & MODERN SCOTS POETRY. 1952 {Part LII. Volume X} pp 30-31.
