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5. If you find that you are unable to record sounds according to the 

 above scheme it is better to make no return at all. Incorrect returns are 

 misleading iu the highest degree, most of all such as are recorded in the 

 ordinary spelling of literary English. 



6. The chief vowel-sounds to be tested are those which occur in the 

 following words of English origin, viz., man, hard, name, help, meat (spelt 

 with ea), green (spelt with ee), hill, ivine, fire, soft, hole, oak (spelt with oa), 

 cool, sun, house, day, law, or words involving similar sounds. Also words 

 of French origin, such bs just, master (a before s), grant {a before w), trj/, 

 value, measure, bacon, pay, chair, journey, pity, beef, clear, profit, boil, roast 

 pork, false, butcher, fruit, blue, pure, pioor, or words involving similar 

 sounds. 



The best account of these sounds, as tested for a Yorkshire dialect, ia 

 to be found in "Wright's ' Dialect of Windhill ' (English Dialect Society, 

 1892), published by Kegan Paul at 12s. Qd. Sweet's symbols are here 

 employed throughout. 



Sweet's ' Primer of Phonetics ' is published by the Oxford Press at 

 3s. Qd. 



A list of test words (of English origin) is given at p. 42 of Skeat's 

 ' Primer of English Etymology,' published by the Oxford Press at Is. Qd. 



7. The task of collecting words which seem to be peculiarly dialectal 

 (as to form or meaning, or both) has been performed so thoroughly that 

 it is useless to record what has been often already recorded. See, for 

 example, Halliwell's (or Wright's) ' Provincial Glossary ' and the publi- 

 cations of the English Dialect Society. In many cases, however, the 

 pronunciatiou of such words has not been noted, and may be carefully set 

 down with great advantage. 



The Rev. Professor Skeat has been kind enough to draw up the fore- 

 going directions, and the collections under this head will be submitted 

 to him. 



Place Name of Observer 



4. Momiments and oilier Remains of Ancient Culture. 



Plot on a map, describe, furnish photographs on sketches, and state 

 the measurements and names (if any) of these, according to the following 

 classification : — 



Drift implements. Caves and their contents. 

 Stone circles. Monoliths. Lake dwellings. 

 Camps. Enclosures. Collections of hut circles. 

 Cromlechs. Cairns. Sepulchral chambers. 



Barrows, describing the form, and distinguishing those which have 

 not been opened. 

 Inscribed stones. 

 Figured stones. Stone crosses. 

 Castra (walled). Earthen camps. 

 Foundations of Roman buildings. 

 Cemeteries (what modes of sepulture). 

 Burials, inhumation or cremation. 

 Detailed contents of graves. 



