A historical lexicon of soil words from the margins of one district's survey notebooks
A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions compiles a historical lexicon of the soil words landholders used, from 1,946 dated margin notes in 212 field notebooks of one district soil survey. Of 143 headwords, those for how ground behaves under an implement mostly leave the notebooks with the horse team, while colour, material and place terms persist, and surveyors drop the inverted commas only from words their own auger could confirm.
| Authors | Brynjar Obiora , Sunniva Balogun , Vigdis Emenike |
|---|---|
| School | School of Underlying Conditions |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.z99naw |
| Pages | 1 |
| Cited by | 20 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_z99naw,
author = {Brynjar Obiora and Sunniva Balogun and Vigdis Emenike},
title = {What the Farmer Called It: A historical lexicon of soil words from the margins of one district's survey notebooks},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.z99naw},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-farmers-soil-words-z99naw/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}