English dialectologist, Professor at University of Leeds.
Remembered for the Survey of English Dialects (1950-61), "an effort to
capture as many regional words as possible before they died out."

Co-author of _Linguistic Atlas of England_ (1978).

What do you call these? (pointing to the handles of a scythe):

doles, grips, handles, hand-pins, hand-tings, straight-handles, nibs,
nippets, noggets, nogs, snogs, tholes, toggers, tugs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Orton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_of_English_Dialects

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Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:

English dialectologist, Professor at University of Leeds.
Remembered for the Survey of English Dialects (1950-61), "an effort to capture as many regional words as possible before they died out."

Co-author of _Linguistic Atlas of England_ (1978).

What do you call these? (pointing to the handles of a scythe):

doles, grips, handles, hand-pins, hand-tings, straight-handles, nibs, nippets, noggets, nogs, snogs, tholes, toggers, tugs

Not directly relevant, but “to thole” is Ulster-Scots (and presumably Scotland-Scots, but I have no exposure to this) for ‘to tolerate, to put up with, to stand.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Orton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_of_English_Dialects

Is anyone in the group in rural England much these days? Is there much of this dialectal variation left?

--
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)

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