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Description: | Doug recalls his early years at home and as a young itinerant farm labourer. Kiplingcotes (just to the west of Cherry Burton), South Dalton (just to the north) and Etton (just to the northwest) are all nearby villages.
lexis
eldest = oldest; Martinmas = 11th November (traditionally time for annual hiring of farm labourers); learn = to teach; grub = food (colloquial); roadster = traveller; cause = because; aye = yes; want = to need; vexed = angry; while = till; at (the) finish = in the end
phonology
H-dropping
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [au]; PRICE [a: ~ EI]; START [a:]; NURSE [E:]; FLEECE [Ii:]; GOOSE [Uu]
® [EIt]
note also fourteen [fO:?tti:n], November [n@vEmb@], one [wQn] and once [wQns], (be)cause [kQs ~ bIkQs], in [I], to [tI], putting [pUr/In], break [br/Ek], with [wI], not so far [s@ fa:] away, bacon [bE:?k=n], only [Qni], about [@b@u:t] and us [@z]
grammar
third person plural was (the papers was to come from Cherry Burton station; the farmer and his wife was out one day; the prunes was put in the pie dry); second person was (you wasn’t allowed in the house really; you just tried to do what you was told to do)
on + general time phrase (when you got up on a morning)
preterite come (one night this roadster man come)
zero definite article (you used to stop in _ barn if there was anybody to talk to; he was putting a pan of water on to _ fire; he put this pan of hot water on to _ fire; used to get a tub of water in _ night before; there was ten of us at _ finish)
independent personal pronoun (me and you’s going to have a good wash, lad = you and I are going to have a good wash)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
third person plural is (me and you’s going to have a good wash, lad; while them people’s away)
determiner, those ® them (while them people’s away)
have as full verb (I hadn’t a cycle or anything like that)
use of thou (hast thou getten one, lad?)
past participle getten (hast thou getten one, lad?)
there was + plural complement (there was ten of us at finish)
note the phrase they called him Charlie = he was called Charlie. Note also the constructions not so far away from there = not that far away from there and they used to get that vexed with you = they used to get so vexed with you. | 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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