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Description: | Doris remembers the self-sufficient nature of domestic life in her childhood and describes the food the family used to prepare and eat. She also recalls the daily walk to school. How Caple is a village and Yatton a wooded area to the north of Ross onWye.
lexis
chitterlings = small intestines of pig; brawn = boiled, pickled and potted pig’s meat; mam > mum = mother (term of endearment); sitting = clutch of eggs; pullet = young domestic fowl; water-glass = liquid solution of silicate of soda or potash used for pickling eggs; piccalilli = pickle composed of mixture of chopped vegetables and hot spices; chutney = spicy relish of ripe fruits, acids, or sour herbs, flavoured with chillies; tiddle = to rekindle fire; sway = crane for hanging kettle over open fire; faggot = rissole made of pig’s fry or liver; kiddie = young child; happen = perhaps, maybe
phonology
occasional H-dropping; rhoticity
PRICE [VI]; MOUTH [{U ~ @U]; NURSE [@`:]; SQUARE [E@`]; NORTH [O`:]; START [A`:]; LOT [A]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [V]; lettER [@`]
® [@]; ® [di]
note also our [A`:], always [Alw@z], ears [j@`:z], ones [w@nz ~ wQnz], that one [Dat=n], reared [r/E@d], (be)cause [bIk@z ~ k@z], off [O:f], years [j@`:z], only [@Uni], stale [stEI@l], school [sku@l] and us [Vs]
grammar
third person plural was (the chitterlings was all done; the head and ears was all done up into brawn; eggs was put down in water-glass; kidney beans was all cut up and salted; beetroots was put on the open fire; kettles was on sways; if a couple was bad); second person was (only the currant bread, the currant loaf, that came in was you allowed to cut fresh); there was + plural complement (there was three of them)
preterite done (you turned all the chitterlings and done them with water; I done the most of it; you done pickled onions, pickled cabbage)
at + general time phrase ® of (of a night)
adjective as adverb (I reckoned it kept real well; admitted, it was made from leather)
preterite come (if you come home from school; if we come and found the three stones there, you run like mad then; there was kiddies come from everywhere)
have as full verb (you’d no fridge or anything)
zero of (it was a case _ who could catch the most strawberries)
periphrastic do (we did meet up with the others; the one that did get interfered with was sent off first)
preterite run (if we come and found the three stones there, you run like mad then)
zero auxiliary (there was kiddies _ come from everywhere)
note the constructions you’d no fridge or anything = you hadn’t got a fridge or anything and we never went eating out = we never ate out / we never went out to eat | 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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