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Description: | Mr Woodhead talks about the Wibsey Horse Fair, at one time the largest horse market in the country. Wibsey, Horton and Carr Lane are all areas of Bradford. Wyke is a village to the south and Otley a market town to the north of Bradford. Brough Hill is in Cumbria.
lexis
aye = yes; aught = anything; afore = before; drove = number of horses; foal = young horse; Johnny-boy = bloke, fellow; physic = to dose or treat with medical preparation; addle = to earn; bob = shilling; tide = village feast, fair; happen = perhaps, maybe; right = proper, real
phonology
definite article + C ® [?t ~ ?]; definite article + V ® [t]; H-dropping; /r/ ® [4 > r/]
Yorkhire assimilation (Wibsey [wIpsI]; good fair [gU?t fE@])
FACE [E:]; START [a:]; GOAT [O:]; MOUTH [a: > aU]; NORTH [O@]; PRICE [a: ~ aI]; happY [I]
® [@]; ® [Uuk]
note also judgement [dZUdZmEnt], auctions [QkS@nz], going [gUIn], yes [j@s], were [wO], there [DI@], in [I], aught [OUt], for [fQ], thirty [T@tI], getting [gE4In], taking [tEkIn] and take [tEk], for [fQ], by [bI], crowdED [k4aUd@d], clap [tlAp], give [gI], always [Ol@s], have [Ev] and right [4EIt]
grammar
zero determiner (there wasn’t _ auctions and that; there wasn’t _ room)
there was + plural complement (there wasn’t auctions)
(when the motors and transport got a-going)
verb phrase as tag (the biggest I think in the country, Wibsey fair were)
third person plural were (Wibsey fair were; it were a good fair; that were it; the horse fair were another)
intensifier fair (it were a fair good fair)
preterite come (they only come for the fair; they come all up and down)
relative pronoun ® at (anybody’d have a do at fancied them)
determiner, those ® them (in them days; all them lot)
clitic have (you’d to take pot-luck = you had to take pot-luck)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers you know [j@ nO:] and like [la:k] | 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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