Yorkshire Names and Dialects

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Yorkshire Names and Dialects, edited by Margaret Atherden.
PLACE 2006. ISBN: 0-9540664-6-4
73pp. 8 black/white illustrations, 2 colour plates.
Price: £2.50 (+ P & P)

Contents:
Place-names and landscape.  Margaret Gelling.
Viking place-names. Gillian Fellows-Jensen.
The Yorkshire place-name survey. Paul Cavill.
Some regional characteristics of Yorkshire surnames.  George Redmonds.
A web-based archive of Yorkshire voices. Jonathan Robinson.
West Riding dialect in the children’s writings of Juliana Horatio Ewing.  Melvyn Jones.
Yorkshire dialect and dialect humour.  Arnold Kellett.

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