More importantly, however, he initiated the work for the Survey of English Dialects and compiled—together with Harold Orton -- the Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England.
His pupil David Parry went on to apply the same principles used for the SED to Welsh English, founding the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects (SAWD) at Swansea University in 1968.
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He worked as lecturer at Uppsala (1924–28), as lecturer at Armstrong College, Newcastle (now the University of Newcastle) (1928–39) and as lecturer in charge of the department of English language, University of Sheffield (1939–46).
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