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Description: | Tom recalls working for his father as a carter with the horses on the locks of the Leeds-Liverpool canal. Winterburn is a village just to the north of Gargrave and Bank Newton a village just to the southwest. Skipton is a town to the southeast and Holmbridge a village some distance to the south beyond Huddersfield. Barnoldswick and Clitheroe are Lancashire towns to the southwest of Gragrave. Greenber Field is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick.
lexis
fro = from; happen = maybe, perhaps; think on! = just consider!, imagine!; aye = yes; tother = other; loaden = to load; shop = place; these here = these; midden = ash pit; dry = thirsty; gagged = parched, extremely thirsty; this here = this; fresh = drunk, intoxicated; theirsells = themselves; afore = before; box-man = (?) railway worker employed as signalman; and all = too, also, as well; atafter =after; wait on = to wait for; liver = to deliver; fetch = to take; a-purpose = on purpose, especially; bob = shilling; while = till; ganger = overseer in charge of gang of railwaymen
phonology
definite article + C ® [?t ~ ?]; definite article + V ® [? ~ t]; H-dropping; to + infinitive ® [?] (used to be [jUu:s? bI] livered); <-Vt# + V ® [4]
START [a:]; GOAT [O:]; MOUTH [a: ~ a:U]; PRICE [a:]; FACE [E: ~ E@]; happY [I]
® [ei:t ~ a:t]; ® [Iv@]; ® [wa]; ® [O:]
note also wasn’t [wQnt], always [Ql@s], go [go@ ~ gU] and going [gUIn], bottom [bQ4@m], take [tEk], over [QU@], Clitheroe [tlID@r/@], horses [Q.sIz ~ QsIz], our [aU@], either [I@D@], by [bI], had [Ed], break [br/Ek], roads [r/U@dz], middens [mIdInz], one [wQn], in [I], with [wI], half [E@f], suit [sIUt], yes [j@s], sorts [sO@ts], us [Uz], years [jI@z], getting [gE4In ~ gEtIn], not [n@t], Newton [nIUt=n], Barnoldswick [ba:lIk]
grammar
first person singular were (when I were working at home; of course I were: I were gagged; the price I were getting); third person singular were (it were right hot weather; it were in summer; he knew what were going to happen; when I come out, there were him and the wife stood in the middle of the road; he were killing a pig; he were a box-man at the station; him at were killing it were having some and all; he were laughing; what it were, I don’t know; he were in a biggish way; that were a good wage)
intensifier right (work wasn’t right good to get; it were right hot weather)
at + general time phrase (at middle of the night)
clitic have (they’ve to be at the top or bottom; you’d to get up and go; you’ve to be down at the mill at six o’clock; we’d to scrape this here; you’ve to go such-and-such a shop; you’d to get inside and throw it out = have to ~ had to)
zero preposition to (you’ve to go _ such and such a shop)
have as full verb (he had some chaps used to break it; he’d some elderberry wine)
zero relative pronoun (he had some chaps _ used to break it); relative pronoun ® at (him at were killing it; them at had horses)
preterite come (when the roller come; when I come out)
use of thou (is thou dry, Tom?; does thou re | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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