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Description: | Mr Brothwell and Ms Greenwood talk about farming and recall several harsh winters. Bardney is a village just to the south of Wragby and Lincoln a town to the west. The Fens refers to the low-lying land to the south of Wragby. Somerset is a county in the southwest of England.
lexis
tent = to tend, look after (livestock); aye = yes; that there = that; lade = to load farm cart; raffle = worthless, rubbish; above = more than; yon = that (over there); hae = to have; rum = strange, peculiar; and all = too, also, as well
phonology
H-dropping; occasional T-glottaling; rhoticity
START [a:]; PRICE [a:I]; FACE [E@]; GOAT [O: ~ O:U]; NORTH [O`: ~ O@`]; NURSE [@`:]; STRUT [U]; lettER [@ ~ @`]; happY [I]
® [Iv@]
note also road [r/U@d], these [DI@z], had [Ed] and have [Ev], there [DI@ ~ DI@`], setten [sE?=n] and set [sE?], horses [QsIz ~ O`:sIz], one [wOn], yes [jIs], each [I@tS], going [gUIn], get [gIt], fodder [fQD@], year [jI@`], always [O:l@s], forty-seven [fO:?tIsEv=n], seen [sIn], hae [E], take [tEk], amount [maUnt], practically [pr/aklI], pianO [pian@], cemetery [SIm@?r/I], couldn’t [kUnt], us [Uz], by [bI] and doesn’t [dUnt]
grammar
relative pronoun ® what (that big fellah what had that there setten stick; he’d go with a man what knew the job); relative pronoun ® as what (he’d go with somebody as what was older than him)
preterite setten (he setten on that stick)
zero of (a pair _ horses; yon side _ Bardney; out _ them Fens)
zero plural marker on nouns (six pair in one field; three and four hundred acre; nine or ten year; eleven year)
determiner, those ® them (out them Fens; them buses was only travelling from what-they-call-them to Wragby)
third person plural was (them buses was only travelling from what-they-call-them to Wragby; some parts there was isolated); third person singular were (it’s eleven year since that lot were here)
third person plural is (some winters is sharper; the cows is out all year round down there)
past participle snown (it was all snown up)
zero auxiliary (you _ seen them pylons, hae you?)
multiple negation (they couldn’t get no farther than Wragby)
zero to + place name (turn round and go back _ Lincoln) | 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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