The Welsh Dialect Survey

This pioneering volume is a triumph of collective scholarship, evidence of “enthusiasm and industry” on the part of field‐workers and editorial assistants, and of “mutual generosity of spirit” on the part of the five distinguished academic editors, led by Professor Alan R. Thomas. The Welsh Dialect Survey was initiated by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales in 1991. Fieldwork was carried out between then and 1995, and editing was completed in 1999. The outcome is a work, long‐awaited in Welsh language research, providing a sound basis for identifying and comparing the “local colour” of spoken Welsh....