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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 in 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, wine, fire, soft, hole, oak (spelt with oa), 
cool, sun, house, day, law, or words involving similar sounds. Also words 
of French origin, such as just, master (a before s), grant (a before n ), try, 
value, measure, bacon, pay, chair, journey, pity, beef, clear, profit, boil, roast 
pork, false, butcher, fruit , blue, pure poor, or words involving similar 
sounds. 
The best account of these sounds as tested for a Yorkshire dialect, is 
to be found in Wright’s ‘Dialect of Windhill ’ (English Dialect Society, 
1892), published by Kegan Paul at 12-5?. 6d. Sweet’s symbols are here 
employed throughout. 
Sweet’s ‘ Primer of Phonetics ’ is published by the Oxford Press at 
3s. 6d. 
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. 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 
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 
pronunciation 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. 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. 
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. 
Cemetei’ies (what modes of sepulture). 
Burials, inhumation or cremation. 
Detailed contents of graves. 
