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Description: | Geoff describes his early years working on the family farm and outlines the gradual move towards mechanisation. War Ag. refers to the War Agricultural Committee: in an attempt to increase food production, County War Agricultural Executive committees were set up to supervise agricultural production in their local areas. In practice these were the local arm of national government and were above all responsible for overseeing ploughing and production targets.
lexis
kid = young child; roadster = tramp; thrash = to thresh
phonology
occasional T-glottaling; L-vocalisation
MOUTH [{}]; PRICE [AI > OI]; FLEECE [@i:]; FACE [{I]; STRUT [V ~ @]; BATH [A:]
note also whatever [wQ?Ev@], so many [s@ mEni] and etcetera [EksEtr/@]
grammar
first person plural was (we was always there)
there was + plural complement (there was plums to bottle and chutneys to make; there was no such things as washing machines; there wasn’t so many around here) | 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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