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Description: | Harry describes traditional ploughing, stacking and thatching techniques and talks about farm wages. Burmington is a village just to the south of Shipston-on-Stour.
lexis
ridge = raised part in ploughed field; furrow = track made by plough; then-a-days = in those days; share = iron blade on plough which cuts ground at bottom of furrow; harrow = heavy plough used to break up soil, root up weeds etc.; any how = any way; staddle = lower part of stack of corn, hay etc.; varmin = vermin; rick = stack of corn, hay etc.; scythe = type of long-handled reaping hook; sickle = type of reaping hook with curved blade
phonology
H-dropping; occasional rhoticity
STRUT [U]; BATH [a ~ a: ~ A:]; LOT [Q ~ A]; START [a`: ~ @`:]; NORTH [A: ~ A`:]; PRICE [OI]; MOUTH [EU]
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note also turn [t@`:n], only [OUnI], one [wUn], shares [SEI@`z], after [A:t@`], square ones [skwE:r/@nz] and round ones [r/EUnd@nz], going [gUIn], here [I@`], ladder [laD@`], by [bI], reap [r/Ep] and week [wIk]
grammar
preterite drawed (you only drawed one line straight along the top)
relative pronoun ® as (five or six shares, you know, as drags it after it’s been planted; twelve shilling a week for a man as looked after the horses; twelve for them as milked and looked after the cows); zero relative pronoun (there’s a gentleman _ lives up here)
complementiser, so that ® so as (so’s the varmin couldn’t get in the ricks)
(there’d used to be two a-thatching)
zero plural marker on noun (twelve shilling a week; ten shilling a week)
note the constructions there’d used to be two a-thatching, they’d used to mow it with what they call a scythe and they’d used to mow the grass and the corn and that = there ~ they used to. Note also the construction what should you do with ten shilling a week now? = what would you do? | 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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