Survey of English Dialects recording in Harlington, Bedfordshire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Harlington, Bedfordshire
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Description:
[Side 1] Arthur talks briefly about keeping pigs, lists animal mutations incl. hermaphrodites, pig with trunk and four-legged hen, mentions 'dillings' and 'harry pigs' [= runt, weakling of litter], recalls record pig litter and discusses problems with calving. [Side 2] Arthur recalls particularly difficult time with 'bob-tail calf' [= calf presenting tail first], explains techniques used in calving incl. use of ropes, describes first experience of difficult calving.
- Date range: Mar 1958
- Date: 1958
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D244
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/34836
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