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Description: | Joe describes the very basic diet he had as a child and the various methods he employed as a young boy to supplement this daily intake. Cudworth to the southeast and Royston to the north of Carlton are former pit towns.
lexis
dripping = melted fat from roast joint used as cold spread; cause = because; ‘tato = potato; pie bits = stewing beef; lift = cut of beef, topside, silverside; salmon = cut of beef, chine; tanner = sixpence
phonology
H-dropping; + V ® [r/ ~ 4]; Yorkshire assimilation (cause he could see [kUt sIi] that I didn’t; that’s how I was fed to [fEt t@])
GOOSE [Uu]; PRICE [a:I ~ aI]; FLEECE [Ii]; GOAT [OU]; FACE [e:I]; MOUTH [a: ~ aU]; START [a:]; happY [I]
® [dI]; ® [Ev@ > Iv@]
note also CONditions [kQndIS@nz], us [Uz], for [fQ], go [gU], one [wQn], (be)cause [kQs > kUs], used to [IUst@], take [tEk], give [gI] and gave [gEv], nothing [nQTIN], made [mEd], (po)tatoes [p@te:It@z ~ te:It@z], cabbagES [kabIdZ@z], whatever [wQr/Ev@], our [a:], there [DI@], opened [Qp=nd], only [O:nlI] and always [O:lwIz]
grammar
past participle for present participle (I used to be sat on the hot pipes = I used to be sitting on the hot pipes)
zero to + infinitive (he used to take me to his home and get his wife _ give me some breakfast)
zero auxiliary (what _ you had?; or it _ be’ tatoes and that)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (we all had a nice egg for us breakfast)
third person singular were (that were our tea; were it King Henry?)
use of thou (off thou goes)
zero indefinite article (I would never take _ egg out of a nest) | 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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