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Description: | Percy describes life in Whitchurch in the early part of the twentieth century. Keynsham is a town just to the east of Whitchurch and Bristol a city just to the north.
lexis
hounds and hares = children’s game of chase; ah = yes; cause = because
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; T-glottaling; voiced ® [d] (with [wId] and whether [wEd@`])
GOAT [ou]; MOUTH [@U ~ aU]; PRICE [VI]; PALM [a:]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; STRUT [V]; BATH [a:]; CLOTH [A]; lettER [@`]
note also us [Us ~ Vs], (be)cause [k@z], it isn’t [tInt] and half [a:f]
grammar
first person plural was (then we was for it); third person plural was (they was building it up when I was a youngster)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
there was + plural complement (there was no problems; there was three houses)
for to + infinitive (Whitchurch is only somewhere for to live in the country)
zero indefinite article (he had _ horse and cart)
negative particle ® no (whether it would be plentiful or no; whether he did or no, well, of course we didn’t know)
third person singular do (to live the way he do, he must have plenty of money); third person singular do + negative particle ® don’t (don’t matter whether we had money or whether we didn’t)
note the construction he could used to tell a dozen tales = he used to be able to tell a dozen tales | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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