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Description: | Ann describes how she never knew her mother and became estranged from her father. She recalls the hardships she has endured in her life, but stresses the happiness she has experienced too. Brandy Carr and East Ardsley (both just to the northeast) are nearby villages and Wakefield (to the east) is a nearby town.
lexis
cause = because; kiddie = young children; take one’s hook = to go away, leave (colloquial); naught = nothing; mysen = myself; somewhat = something; lass = girl; and all = also, too, as well; aught = anything; browd = to braid, stitch, embroider; broth = thin soup made from liquid in which meat has been boiled; ‘tato = potato; road = way; sin = ago
phonology
definite article ® [?t ~ ? > t]; H-dropping; + V ® [r/]; Yorkshire assimilation (when my dad [da?] come out of the army; she’d [SIt] some daughters; my dad [da?] took me to live with the stepmother; Richard [r/ItS@t] Thomas Smith; I’ve had a pile of fur and made [mE:?] fur rugs; he turned round to read, did [dI?] the poor old devil)
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [a: ~ au]; PRICE [a:I]; START [a:]; GOOSE [Uu]; NURSE [@]; NORTH [Q: ~ O@]; THOUGHT [Q:]; happY [I]; startED [@d]
® [Iv@]
note also so many [s@ mEni], (be)cause [kQs ~ kUs ~ k@s], with [wI], aunt [ant], old [@Ud], one [wQn ~ wUn] and young ones [jUN@nz] and real ones [r/i:l@nz], had [Ed], nothing [nQTIN], I never saw a [sO:w @] marriage license for my dad, for [fQ], hook [Uuk], naught [nOUt] and aught [OUt], didn’t [dInt], do [dU], mean [mI@n], cruEL [kr/U@l > kr/UIl], make [mEk] and taking [tEkIn], over [Qv@], raincoat [r/E:nkOIt], daughters [d@Ut@z], going [gUIN], wasn’t [wQd=nt], head [I@d] and stew [stjUu])
grammar
have as full verb (I haven’t so many memories of my childhood; she’d some daughters; he’d three sons to her; I’d a sewing machine on a thing and some wheels; we’d seven kiddies; we’d a hard life; I’d a big bowl)
first person singular were (I were two year old when my dad come out of the army; I were living with his sister; I were called after her; Brandy Carr, where I were born; I were about fourteen; when I were young; I’d to start looking after mysen when I were about sixteen; I worked till I were twenty-one; I were twenty-one; when I were about sixteen; I were coming through the fields; I were going through, over the field; this couple that I were living with); third person singular were (that were ten; it were dangerous, were that; it were my fourteenth birthday; he were about twenty-four, somewhat like that; it were closing up, it were blocking up; my dad were walking in the rain; he were walking in the field; it were raining and all; he were [wQ] my dad; he were a younger one nor Tommy; it were him who were taking the tale that he’d to come across; it were a happy life; it were happy); first person plural was (I’m not saying we wasn’t happy)
zero plural marker on nouns (two year old; twenty-four year, no, forty-two year; seventeen-and-a-half year; three year sin)
preterite come (I were two year old when my dad come out of the army; they come to live at Osset)
relative pronoun ® at (she lost another daughter at had three)
determiner, those ® them (she brought them seven up; you know, them valves)
multiple negation (I never got to know nor nothing; never got nothing; don’t know naught about that; nobody to fall back to nor naught; we didn’t get no money; that’s every word he said to me – nothing no more)
inverted verb phrase as tag (it were dangerous, were that; he turned round to me, did the poor devil)
clitic have (I’d to start looking after mysen when I were about sixteen = I had to start looking after myself when I was about sixteen)
adjective as adverb (they can’t do everything perfect for you, can they?)
verbal inflection with I (I says; I goes knee-deep into it again into trouble)
non-standard word order with infinitive phrase (I have them | 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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