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Description: | Kenneth reflects on the impact of mechanisation on farming and describes the changes in land use locally. He also recalls decimalisation and the introduction of metric measurements. Tenbury Wells is a town just to the north of St Michaels.
phonology
occasional H-dropping; rhoticity
PRICE [VI > aI]; NORTH [O`:]; NEAR [I@`]; START [A`:]; SQUARE [E`:]; NURSE [@`:]; STRUT [V]; LOT [Q > A]; lettER [@`]
note also one [wVn], everywhere [Evr/Iw@`:] and example [Egza:mp=L/]
grammar
adjective as adverb (it’s done very, very quick, you know, today; they do everything ever so quick today; they move enormous loads ever so quick; How has the land use changed? – Oh, tremendous)
there is + plural complement (there’s an enormous lot of contractors; there’s thirteen tractors on this lane; there’s such a lot of things that’s happened in my lifetime; there is about ten coins again now; there’s not very many dairy herds in the Tenbury Wells area; nowadays there’s some enormous herds); there was + plural complement (there was flocks and herds of cattle and sheep every where; there was a lot of people worked on farms)
third person plural has (there’s such a lot of things that’s happened in my lifetime)
zero definite article (there was a lot of people _ worked on farms)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [ju n@U] | 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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