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Description: | Evelyn recounts her earliest memories of life on the family farm and the house she grew up in. She recalls how all members of her large family had to help out from an early age with the cows and haymaking. The Cloughs refers to the steep-sided valleys just to the west of Walsden.
lexis
mistall = cow-shed; shippon = cow-shed; swill = to wash down, sluice; burn = bundle of hay or straw; mough = area of barn where hay is stored; eldest = oldest; oilcloth = fabric coated with oil to render it waterproof
phonology
very occasional H-dropping
GOAT [o:]; FACE [e:]; STRUT [@]; PRICE [a:I ~ aI]; CHOICE [QI]; lettER [@ ~ 6]; happY [I]
note also one [wQn] and once [wQns], CONtent [kQntEnt], us [@z], there [DEI@], floor [flO@], because [b@kQs], piecES [pi:s@z], here [hI6], nothing [n@TIN], wantED [wQnt@d] and our [aU@]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was three sisters; there was three after me; there was three stalls; there was always a lot about; there was three of us stood up)
clitic have (we’d to get up; I’d to put my arm round them; they’d great big buckets; we’d to go out and drive them in; you’ve to put your hand underneath; we’d always to go home; we’d to shake it all even; we’d to go up and then jump down onto the hay; we’d a lovely big sitting room; we’d to follow him round the farm; we’d twopence; we’d salmon and tongue; we’d to wait till father got what he wanted; we’d to work for every halfpenny = had (to) ~ have to)
have as full verb (they’d great big buckets; we hadn’t any swilling to do; we had all this to do; we hadn’t time for anything else; we’d lots of space; we hadn’t enough chairs)
third person plural was (they was out in the fields; they was in burns; by the time the next two was born); first person plural was (we was on there; I had no idea that we was having another baby)
word order with infinitive phrase (we had all this to do = we had to do all this; we’d always to go home from school = we always had to go home from school; we’d all work to do = we all had work to do; we’d always a good meal = we always had a good meal; we’d all to stay back = we all had to stay back)
adjective as adverb (the older ones had it more severe than us; it was set out very nice)
past participle for present participle (there was three of us stood up = standing up)
note construction there was no water = there wasn’t any water | 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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