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Description: | Jim talks about the self-sufficiency of growing up on a hill farm in the Forest of Rossendale.
lexis
dolly blue = proprietary product often used in washing or dyeing; mebbe = perhaps, maybe; slat = to slap, flap, dash; hissell ~ hisself = himself; ail = to be ill; aye = yes; somewhat = something; brawn = boiled, and pickled or potted pig meat; case-ball = leather ball
phonology
definite article ® [?]; definite article + V ® [T] (straight out of the oven [TUv@n]); H-dropping; rhoticity
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [aU~ {Y]; PRICE [a:I]; START [{`:]; NORTH [O`:]; THOUGHT [Q:]; lettER [@`]; happY [I]
note also boiling [bQIlIn], one [wQn], look [lu:k], in [I], with [wI], seen [sIn], us [Uz], right [r/EIt], father [faD@`], because [bIk@s], always [O:lw@s], didn’t [dInt], say [sE], first [f@`st], pottED [pQt@d], so much [s@ mUtS] and isn’t [Int]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (them things seem to be coming back now; my mother always referred back to them days)
third person singular were (everything were nice and clean and whitewashed; it were blue-washed or whatever colour; everything were home-made, like; it were the best, you know; her bread were terrific; bread and butter, right out of the oven were good; it were right good stuff; it were during the war; he stuck it when it were dead, like; there weren’t so much wasted on a pig, really)
right as intensifier (it were right good stuff; get it right sharp, if you missed, you’ve had it)
have as full verb (we had a slab in the cellar; he had a recipe; they had a gun)
zero possessive marker with it (he’d slit it throat; we used to blow it bladder up and play football with it) | 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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