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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 .
- Survey of English Dialects
The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950...
- Survey of English Dialects
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.
If so, you may be just what Harold Orton was looking for when he formed his team of dialect fieldworkers to gather information for the original Survey of English Dialects. Orton’s fieldworkers, travelled up and down the country in the 1950s and 60s, recording the local dialects of England and its border regions.
More importantly, however, he initiated the work for the Survey of English Dialects and compiled—together with Harold Orton—the Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England. Selected works. Dieth, Eugen (1932). A Grammar of the Buchan Dialect (Aberdeenshire). Cambridge: University Press. Dieth, Eugen (1938). Schwyzertütschi ...
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.
HAROLD ORTON, director of the Survey of English Dialects and professor emeritus of English Language and Medieval Litera-ture at the University of Leeds, died 7 March 1975 after a brief illness. It is fitting that a distinguished scholar's career should end on the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Orton was born 23 October 1898 at Byers Green, near ...
