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Description: | The un-named speakers talk about dairy farming and describe an old-fashioned milk round. Halifax is a large town to the east of Heptonstall.
lexis
nay = no; beast = cattle; truss = to tie in bundle; lathe = barn; bout = without; somewhat = something; aye = yes; cause = because; aboon = above, better than; thysell = thyself, yourself; mysell = myself; sin = ago; thro = from; pap = teat; cod = to joke, jest; ligger-off = cow set aside prior to calving; mistall = cow-shed; and all = also, as well, too; sam = to collect, gather up
phonology
definite article + C ® [?t]; definite article + V ® [T]; H-dropping
Yorkshire assimilation (I had an old shirt [O:l? S@t] on)
FLEECE [I@]; MOUTH [{@]; FACE [e:]; GOAT [O:]; PRICE [AI ~ a:I]; startED [@d]; happY [I]
® [u:k]; ® [OUld]; ® [QnI]; ® [aN]; ® [wa]
note also always [QlIz > QlIs], way [waI], with [wI], sort [sO@t], has [Ez], in [I], haymaking [EIme:kIn], right [r/EIt], once [wQns], shirt [S@t], get [gIt @ ge:t], there [DI@], (be)cause [kQs], coals [kOIlz], chapel [tSapIl], us [Uz], aboon [@bUn], forty [fQ?tI], year [j@:], take [tEk], warm [wa:m], death [dI@T], work [wa:k], coming [kQmIn], school [skUIl], soon [sUIn], thought [T@Ut] and stones [sto@nz]
grammar
have as full verb (he’s beef cattle on; I had an old shirt on bout sleeves in)
multiple negation (he isn’t bothered with milking nor naught of that sort)
word order with infinitive phrase (he has them to feed in winter = he has to feed them in winter)
independent personal pronoun (her and me were once scrubbing)
third person singular were (it were the Yorkshire foreman; it were as clean as a chapel; it were warm; I thought he were codding; it were a reality); firstperson plural was (we was black as coals); first person singular were (when I were a lad)
relative pronoun ® at (it were the Yorkshire foreman at came; it’s the style at’s changed)
zero as (we was _ black as coals)
use of thou and thy (thou knows; thou knocked at the door; thou get thy measure in; thou’ll get at that job soon enough)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (we were inspected with us milk)
zero plural marker on nouns (aboon forty year; three year sin; six or seven year old; fifteen year old); non-standard plural marker (childer = children)
preterite get (thou knocked at the door .. milk! … and thou get thy measure in)
there is + plural complement (there’s ever so many; there’s two on them)
zero relative clause (there’s ever so many _ given their job up; there’s two on them _ goes with milk)
of + pronoun | 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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