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Description: | Peggy describes the tied cottage she grew up in. Framlingham is a town just to the north of Easton.
lexis
back-stock = low hearth, open fireplace; haps = perhaps; Aladdin light = proprietary name for type of oil lamp; copper = large copper vessel for cooking and boil-washing laundry; senna = cassia (subtropical plantin pea family used as medical preparation)
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (cooking [kU?k@n], second [sE?k=nd], I can [?k@n], working [w@:?k=n], like [lVI?k] a seed and black [bl{?k] old drink); also of /p/ (paper [paI?p@], on top [tA?p] of the landing, couple [kV?p=L/], people [p@i:?p=L/], keeping [k@i:?p=n] and copper [kA?p@]) and of /t/ (kettle [kE?t=L/], autumn [O:?t@m], winter [wIn?t@], into [In?t@], bottom [bA?t@m], later [laI?t@], had to [h{?t@], disintegratED [dIsIn?t@gr/aI?@d], potty [pQ?ti], two-seater [tu:s@i:?t@] and water [wO:?t@]); L-vocalisation (candles [k{ndoz ~ k{nd=L/z] and pills [pIoz])
MOUTH [EU]; FACE [aI]; PRICE [OI ~ VI]; FLEECE [@I:]; GOAT [oU]; TRAP [{]; BATH [a: ~ A:]; STRUT [V]; LOT [A ~ Q]
® [di]
note also little [lI?=L/ > lId=L/], curtain [k@:?=n], one [wOn], sitting [sI?=n], always [O:l@z], newspaper [nju:spaI?p@], father’s [fa:D@z], (on the bottom) of our [@r/A:] (bed), because [bIkOz], Saturday [s{?@di], chemIST [kEm@st] and purified [pu:r/@fVId]
grammar
relative pronoun ® what (a little oven on the top what she used to bake; there was a settee and armchairs what mother had in this room; a seed what she’d got from somewhere); zero relative pronoun (there was a man _ come round every week; there was two more girls _ come along)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (when that was cold, that was cold; when you pulled the old settee away from the wall, that’d be running of water; once you lit that lamp, that’d smoke; that weren’t very comfortable)
there was + plural complement (there was two bedrooms; there was two more girls come along)
preterite come (there was a man come round every week; the paraffin man, as we used to say, come round; there was two more girls come along)
first person singular have + negative particle ® ain’t (I ain’t got that wick square)
past participle busted (because she’d busted the glass)
third person singular were (that weren’t very nice, I can tell you; my brother were the next one; that weren’t very comfortable)
adjective as adverb (we had them regular every Saturday)
note the construction that’d be running of water = running with water | 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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