Harold Orton born (23/10/1898)

[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

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

[Aidan Kehoe]

Post by 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).
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.’

Post by Ross Clark
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?