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Description: | The unknown speaker recalls a couple of incidents relating to his time as shop steward at Mattison’s Foundry just after World War II.
lexis
aught = anything; By! = exclamation of surprise; grand = fine, excellent, great; naught = nothing; morn = morning; hisself = himself; afore = before; learn = teach; gaffer = boss; fettler = man who dresses rough metal castings removed from moulds; tother = the other; reckon = to think about, decide; urine = urinal; and all = as well, also, too; want = to need; fettling shop = workshop where rough metal castings are dressed; beggar = pest, nuisance; right = real, proper
phonology
definite article + C ® [? ~ t]; H-dropping; /r/ ® [r/ ~ 4]; + V ® [r/ > t ~ 4];
Yorkshire assimilation (I get paid for [pE:?t fQ] this)
FACE [E: > EI]; START [a:]; GOOSE [Uu:]; GOAT [O: > OU]; PRICE [a:I]
® [d@]; ® [@]
note also first [f@st], better [bE?@], arrangement [@r/E:nZmEnt], with [wI], envelopes [EnvEl@ps], go [gu], aught [OUt] and naught [n@Ut], one [wUn], for [fQ], yes [j@s], yours [ju@z], getting [gEr/In], all right [Olr/EIt], there [DI@], have [Ef] and having [EvIn], making [mEkIn] and make [mEk], in [I] and through [Tr/IU]
grammar
conjunctive particle, than ® nor (the Second World War finished better nor the First)
preterite come (we were on three days when we come back; my gaffer come out to me; he come to me one day)
at + general time phrase (at Friday night; at Saturday morn)
third person singular were (that weren’t my way of going on; he were a beggar, were one of them; he were on ovens; he were in the First War and the Second War; he were a beggar; he were a right soldier, were Sid Long; he were in the urine; he were telling some on them)
multiple negation (I didn’t say naught)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
use of thee, thou and thyself (thou can go for it thyself; that’ll learn thee a lesson)
inverted verb phrase as tag (he come to me one day, did the gaffer; he were a beggar, were one of them; he were a right soldier, were Sid Long)
third person plural is (fettlers is getting it; let me know who them two is)
have as full verb (I’ve no objection to that)
determiner, those ® them (them two)
zero as (seeing _ I’m the shop steward)
preterite telled (he telled me just the two that I had in mind)
zero indefinite article (this fellow had _ awful habit)
of + pronoun ® on (he were telling some on them) | 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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