[1] It stands as one of the earliest methods of identifying vowel sounds and features of speech.
The aim was to capture the main vowel sounds of an individual dialect by listening to the reading of a short passage.
Ellis distinguished forty-two different dialects in England and the Scottish Lowlands.
"[3] Peter Anderson argued that the small differences between Wright's and Ellis's descriptions of the Windhill dialect were likely to be matters of "transcriptional style", as also occurred between different fieldworkers in the Survey of English Dialects.
[4] The test was used to illustrate different dialects in a series of gramophone records produced by the British Drama League in the early 20th century.