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Description: | Elliott recalls trips with his father to Norwich cattle market and describes the additional dealing that went on in the pubs afterwards. Norwich is a city to the northeast of Stow Bedon, Bury St Edmonds a town to the southwest and Ipswich a town to the south. Allis-Chalmers began manufacturing farm equipment in Milwaukee, USA, in 1914, producing among other things a series of tractors before being taken over by K-H-Deutz AG of Germany in 1985.
lexis
‘tween = between; theirselves = themselves; motor = car; and all = too, as well, also; chop = to barter, exchange
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (motorbike [mUu?@bVI?k], markETs [ma:?k@ts] and talking [tO:?k=n]); also of /p/ (shopping [SA?p=n] and chopping [tSA?p=n]) and of /t/ (bottom [bA?t@m] and twenty [twEn?ti]); to + infinitive ® [?] (you had time [?] do things; how much do you want [?] make on them?); to + place-name ® [?] (drive me [?] Ipswich; away we go [?] Ipswich)
FACE [{I]; GOAT [Uu]; PRICE [AI ~ VI]; MOUTH [{U]; START [a:]; BATH [a:]; TRAP [{]; LOT [A]; STRUT [@]
® [di]
note also cattle [k{?=L/], Saturday [s{?@di], wouldn’t [wUn?], you [j@U], got to [gA?@], motor [mUu?@], once [w@ns], hundred [h@ndr/@?], something [s@T@n], chatting [tS{?=n], father [fa:D@], beautiful [bu:?@f=L/], today [?@d{I], auctioneer [Aks@nI@], off [O:f] and meadOW [mEd@]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (in them days; they don’t have them things now)
zero auxiliary (they _ done away with that now; you _ got to get in the motor)
second person have + negative particle ® ain’t (today you ain’t got time; you ain’t got twenty)
third person singular do + negative particle (the motor don’t go fast enough)
preterite done (you don’t do any more than what he done I expect)
zero plural marker on nouns (five pound; ten ton; twenty pound)
relative pronoun ® what (most markets are closed down now what there was; we used to have to drive the cattle all down on there what he bought)
there was + plural complement (most markets are closed down now what there was)
adjective as adverb (the farmers, they deal direct now with the abattoirs)
never as negative auxiliary (he put them in the sale and he never got a bid for them)
preterite come (another old farmer come in)
preterite see (never see the horse)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (that gets to seven o’clock at night)
note the use of boy! as a form of address in come on, boy, he said, drive me to Ipswich! and I’ve had a good deal here, boy! | 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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