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Description: | Hartley talks about eel fishing and describes the gradual change from traditional approaches to modern methods. Newnham and Awre are villages on the opposite side of the Severn estuary to Framilode. The Pridings is an area on the banks of the Severn just to the west of Framilode.
lexis
cause = because; pat ~ bob = to fish for eels using worm balls as bait; buller = person prone to exaggeration; baloney = nonsense (colloquial); our old lady = our mother (term of endearment); our old man = our father (term of endearment); scrabble = to scrape; fyke-net = bag-net used for catching eel; putcheon = conical basket or wicker trap used for catching eels; withy = wicker; turn one’s feet up = to die (euphemism); Tom Pepper = liar; wireless = radio; lamprey = eel-like fish; gal = girl; lampern = river lamprey; take the piddle = to make fun of
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; + V ® [d]
PRICE [VI]; MOUTH [{U]; GOAT [OU]; NORTH [O`:]; START [A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; STRUT [V]; BATH [a:]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]
note also father [fa:D@`], us [Vs], (be)cause [kUz ~ bIk@z], wasn’t [wAd=nt], our [A`:], manure [mInjO`:], keep [kIp], cotton [kA?=n], one [wVn] and once [wVns], here [I@`], twenty [twEni], half [a:f], bottom [bAd@m], water [wO:d@`], putcheon [pUtSIn], nothing [nVTIn], big one [bIg@n] and years [j@`:z]
grammar
first person plural subject pronoun ® us (us kids); third person feminine subject pronoun ® her (her was a real master at it; her made our old man hundreds and hundreds of pats)
zero plural marker on nouns (ten foot long; twelve, fourteen foot; six foot; as many as forty pound; twenty or thirty pound; twenty pound; four pound)
second person was (as long as the sun didn’t get on the drum, you know, you was all right); third person plural was (once they was in there); first person plural was (we was laughing in hysterics; we wasn’t taking the piddle)
zero indefinite article (we used to have _ hole drilled in the end of the pole; you’d have _ hell of a job)
preterite come (if a big eel come along)
verbal inflection with you (if you cuts up the worm; once you gets a couple of eels in him)
adjective as adverb (you can thread the needle through him nice and easy)
multiple negation (he never had time to turn round left nor right; you don’t have to put any baits in them or nothing; we wasn’t taking the piddle out of the old gal or nothing)
there was + plural complement (when there was plenty of eels about)
third person plural be + negative particle ® ain’t (there ain’t [Int] the eels about today)
gender assigned to it (stick him (= fyke-net) down with a steel bar; he (= fyke-net) got all these cones that go up inside him (= fyke-net); they used to ram the grass up inside of him (= withy basket); once you gets a couple of eels in him (= fyke-net))
zero auxiliary (he _ got all these cones that go up inside him; they _ got a job to find their way back out)
preterite done (I done that down the Pridings) | 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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