From:  Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
Date:  24 Oct 2024 17:52:12 Hong Kong Time
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Harold Orton born (23/10/1898)

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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