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Title: The Linguistic Geography of Wales
Subtitle: Glamorgan Revisited
Author(s): THOMAS, Peter Wynn
Journal: Orbis
Volume: 35    Date: 1988-1990   
Pages: 68-80
DOI: 10.2143/ORB.35.0.2012827

Abstract :
Anyone consulting the maps and articles of The Linguistic Geography of Wales (A. Thomas 1973) may be forgiven for concluding that there is little territorial cohesion in the lexicon of the South-East Welsh vernacular: time and again the area east to the river Nedd is unpredictably peppered with rogue items whose concentrated distribution in other areas otherwise identifies them as typically northern, western, etc.

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