|
Date: |
|
Description: | Ronald talks about the market stall that has been in his family since his grandfather’s time and expresses his fears for the future of the trade. Browston Green (just to the southeast of Belton) and Burgh Castle (just to the north) are nearby villages.
lexis
bushel box = vessel used as measure of bushel (equivalent to four pecks or eight gallons of fruit or corn)
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (chuck [tSV?k] everything, knocking [nA?k=n] and lucky [lV?ki]) and of /p/ (wrapped [r/{?pt] up [V?p] in that, happened [h{?p=nd], people [pi:?p=L/], simple [sIm?p=L/], shoppers [SA?p@z] and supermarkET [s}:?p@ma:k@t])
GOAT [Uu ~ 6U]; PRICE [AI]; START [a:]; FACE [{I]; MOUTH [{}]; TRAP [{]; LOT [A ~ Q]; STRUT [V]; BATH [a: ~ A:]
® [dI]
note also father [fa:D@], got to [gQ?@], one [wOn ~ wVn], startED [sta:?@d], little [lI?=L/], markET [ma:k@t], two-hundred-and-forty [t}:hVndr/@d@nfO:?i], off [O:f], quantity [kwAn?@ti], can’t [ka:nt], onto [Qn?@], because [bIk@z], Saturdays [s{?@dIz], wintertime [wIn?@tAIm], hour [A:@], meetING [mi:?=n], want to [wQn?@], lottery [lA?@r/i] and mornING [mO:n@n]
grammar
uninflected third person singular verb (that’s how time change; that only leave me about two or three days to be on the land; simple reason being, because he know there’s – he says, “I seen you work too hard”)
first person singular be + negative particle ® aren’t (I aren’t used to that)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (that’s a lot of labour; that’s all enjoyable; that’s nice meeting people; that’s lovely, yeah)
verbal inflection with I (I does [d}:z] exactly the same I suppose)
third person singular do + negative particle ® don’t (my son, he don’t want to know)
zero auxiliary (I _ seen you work too hard)
there is + plural complement (now there’s two) | 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 |
|
|