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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: Harold Orton born (23/10/1898)
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 Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > English dialectologist, Professor at University of Leeds.
 > Remembered for the Survey of English Dialects (1950-61), "an effort to
 > capture as many regional words as possible before they died out."
 > 
 > Co-author of _Linguistic Atlas of England_ (1978).
 > 
 > What do you call these? (pointing to the handles of a scythe):
 > 
 > doles, grips, handles, hand-pins, hand-tings, straight-handles, nibs,
 > nippets, noggets, nogs, snogs, tholes, toggers, tugs

Not directly relevant, but “to thole” is Ulster-Scots (and presumably
Scotland-Scots, but I have no exposure to this) for ‘to tolerate, to put up
with, to stand.’

 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Orton
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_of_English_Dialects

Is anyone in the group in rural England much these days? Is there much of this
dialectal variation left?

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