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Description: | John describes work at Crich limestone quarry where he worked from the age of fourteen. John Smedley’s and Lea Mills refers to Smedley’s Hydro in Matlock, a town just to the northwest of Crich.
lexis
a deal = a lot, much; somewhat = something; knapping-hammer = light hammer used for breaking up stones; all the while = all the time; cause = because; and all = also, too, as well; hap to = to happen to
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping
PRICE [A:I]; NURSE [@: ~ I:]; GOAT [OU]; MOUTH [a: > a:U]; FACE [EI > Ei]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; startED [@d]
® [tl]
note also always [O:lIs ~ O:l@s], make [mEk], school [sk}:l], there [De@], wagons [wagInz], onto another job [Qnt@r/@nUD@ dZQb], one [wQn], limestone [lA:Imst@n], by [bI], wagES [wEIdZ@z], (be)cause [kQs ~ bIkQs], too big [t@ bIg], with [wI], probably [pr/Qbli], didn’t [dInt], without [wIa:t], taken [tEk=n] and only [OUni]
grammar
relative pronoun ® as (the man as worked with my father; the man as loaded the wagons; most of the ironwork as the wagons were made of; all the ironwork as went onto them; that’d be about the last as I can think of; nothing as had to be bought; the blacksmith got the iron in as he wanted); zero relative pronoun (there was a large clay bed _ run across the top of the quarry); relative pronoun ® what (the drills what you used on the rocks; all the wagons what we used)
past participle broke (the war had just broke out)
first person singular were (I were only fourteen); third person singular were (it were a bit heavy; yes, it (= the limestone) were; certain of it were dynamited out; it were a little bit different to other quarries; if where you were working were blasting; it weren’t just being in the bottom; it was definitely self-sufficient, the quarry were; Crich quarry were; everything were made); third person plural was (the wages was ten shilling a week)
zero plural marker on nouns (eighteen month; three ton; sixteen to eighteen pound; ten shilling a week; fifteen shilling; 150 to 200 foot; five / six month)
at + general time phrase (he’d pay you out at the Friday)
preterite run (there was a large clay bed run across the top of the quarry)
complementiser, so that ® so as (cleaned off the rubble that was left on, so as it didn’t fall into the bottom; so as if you did hap to fall off, you wouldn’t have fell to the bottom; so as it stood the breaking the stone)
past participle fell (you wouldn’t have fell to the bottom)
adjective as adverb (it just came natural; with using it regular)
verb phrase as tag (it was definitely self-sufficient, the quarry were)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker like [lA:k]. Note also the construction you’d not go up till you were fourteen / fifteen = you wouldn’t go up till you were fourteen / fifteen | 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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