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Description: | Glyn talks about mowing and ploughing before and after the introduction of tractors and recounts how his family gradually built up a herd of cattle to supplement the income from arable farming. Sheffield is a large city to the northeast of Coplow Dale.
lexis
usself = ourselves; naught = nothing; swath = row of mown grass
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping; + V ® [Ng]; to + infinitive ® [t] (we shall have to hurry [af tUr/I] up)
FACE [EI > Ei]; GOAT [OU]; PRICE [A:I ~ A: > a:I]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]
® [}:k]
note also one [wQn], half past [af past], we shall [wIs=l], sandwichES [samwIdZ@z], us [@z], our [aU@], naught [n@Ut], horsES [hQ:s@z], swath [swQT], either [a:ID@], didn’t [dInt], perhaps [pr/aps], wantED [wQnt@d] and needED [ni:d@d], always [OlwIz] and progressive [pr/OUgr/EsIv]
grammar
zero indefinite article (she wouldn’t just tackle making _ haystack)
zero plural marker on nouns (two acre; three foot; four foot six; 325 pound; 25/6,000 pound)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (made usself some bread and jam sandwiches and had us tea; at half past ten we’d finished us nine loads of hay)
determiner, those ® them (them few bales that you’re picking up)
zero of (a couple _ hundred; a couple _ hours)
third person singular were (it were a bitter struggle; he were an old man for the war)
object pronoun as subject (we’re too progressive, aren’t we, us agricultural lot?)
have as full verb (people haven’t time to see 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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