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Linguists of historical English, of traditional dialects and present-day varieties of English, generally rely on written texts, now often available in the form of corpora. However, the historical development of English, including its regional dialects, was naturally rooted in the spoken vernacular, rather than the literary standard. This paper, based on  EDD Online  (3.0), therefore, argues that the wealth of sources as used by Wright in his comprehensive  English Dialect Dictionary  ( EDD ) should no longer be disregarded, given that no better information is available. After a critical assessment of the widespread scepticism towards the  EDD  sources and of the different motivation of scholars not primarily concerned with traditional dialects (such as  OED  lexicographers), the paper first provides a survey of the different types of sources used by the  EDD  and presented in different lists and tables in  EDD  Online, and then focuses on the unpublished sources. The subsequent section shows that part of the problem of spoken sources results from the unjustified insistence of many scholars on phonetics to be the level of linguistic interest. In answer to the  OED’s  scepticism towards Wright’s sources as expressed in a paper by  Durkin (2010a) , the final section provides an analysis of Northamptonshire dialect words as a test case, with various linguistic issues beyond the  OED’s  focus on the temporal frame of reference.

Joseph Wright’s sources in the English Dialect Dictionary: evidence of spoken English from EDD Online