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

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

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

 rdinary spelling of literary English. 



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

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

 ?ith ed), green (spelt with ee), hill, wine, fire, soft, hole, oak (spelt with oa), 

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

 f French origin, such as just, master (a before s), grant (a before n), try, 

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



. wrk, false, butcher, fruit, blue, pure, poor, or words involving similar 

 ounds. 



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



0 be found in Wright's 'Dialect of Wmdhill ' (English Dialect Society, 

 .892), published by Kegan Paul at 12s. 6d. Sweet's symbols are here 

 jmployed throughout. 



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

 Is. 6d. 



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



1 Primer of English Etymology,' published by the Oxford Press at Is. 6d. 



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 

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

 3xample, Halliwell's (or Wright's) ' Provincial Glossary ' and the publi- 

 3ations of the English Dialect Society. In many cases, however, the 

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

 iown 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. Monuments and other 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. 



I 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. 



