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Description: | William talks about food production in his younger days and recalls the threshing gangs that worked on local farms before the introduction of the combine harvester. Ogle is a village to the northeast of Stamfordham. Scrapie refers to a fatal neurodegenerative disease in sheep and goats, characterized by lack of coordination and itching and BSE refers to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a similar neurodegenerative disease in cattle.
lexis
broth = soup made from liquid in which meat has been boiled; champion = great, excellent; chaff = husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing; laddie = lad, boy; mebbe = perhaps, maybe; stook = to place groups of sheaves upright and supporting each other in order to permit drying and ripening of grain before carrying; baccy = tobacco; lassie = girl, young woman; aye = yes; womenfolk = women; wap = to throw quickly or suddenly; daft = silly, stupid
phonology
/r/ ® [R ~ r/] (“Northumbrian burr”); glottal reinforcement of /k/ (locally [l8:?k@li], markET [mQ:?k@t], microwaves [maI?kr/@we:vz], pockET [pQ?k@t] and lookING [lU?k@n]); also of /p/ (supermarkETs [su:?p@mQ:?k@ts], preparation [pRE?p@r/e:S@n], champion [tSam?pI@n], people [pi:?p=l], unpopular [UnpQ?pj@l@], papers [pe:?p@z], jumper [dZUm?pa] and happy [ha?pi]) and of /t/ (little [lI?t=l], formative [fO:m@?tIv], dirtiEST [d2:tI@st], keep the wet [wE?t] out, onto [Qn?t@], into [In?t@], sort of [sO:?t@], got to [gQ?t@], dinnertime [dIn@?taIm], sweater [swE?ta], fourteen [fO:?ti:n], mutton [mU?t=n], shortage [SO:?tIdZ], Peter [pi:?ta], eating [i:?tIn] and battED [ba?t@d])
FACE [e:]; GOAT [8:]; MOUTH [@U ~ u: ~ aU]; PRICE [aI ~ EI]; START [Q:]; NURSE [2:]; lettER [a > @]; startED [@d]; CONfirm [kQn]
note also one [wQn], none [nQn] and once [wQns], comING [kUm@n], beddING [bEd@n], black bullETs [blag bUl@ts], because [bIkQs], waistcoat [we:sk@t], screamING [skr/i:m@n], puddING [pUd=n] and book [bY:k]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was two on a bench; there was always four of them)
out + zero of (he would take them out _ his pocket)
zero of (a bit _ suck and a bit _ spit)
note the construction it must’nt’ve been on rations = it can’t have been on rations | 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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