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Description: | The speaker talks about curing bacon and outlines working conditions when he started as a farm labourer in the late nineteenth century.
lexis
great = big, large; bever = snack eaten in the fields; bob = shilling (colloquial); hisself = himself; ‘tato = potato
phonology
H-dropping
PRICE [OI > AI]; FACE [{I]; GOOSE [Iu:]
® [dI]
note also off [O:f], ago [@gu:], cost [kO:st] and no more [n@ mO:]
grammar
zero to + infinitive (you’d get a butcher _ come and kill your pig; my mother used _ cure it; I don’t know what they used _ cure it with, though; used _ start at five o’clock in the morning; used _ always be drunk; he used _ tell me so)
otiose of ® on (they always used to fetch it down and start eating on it = start eating it; used to pay on us in beer = used to pay us in beer)
zero plural marker on noun (about seventy year back; two shilling a week)
multiple negation (he wouldn’t get no more than that and he wouldn’t say nothing; you would’nt believe that hardly, would you?)
of + general time phrase (he used tell me he had the gravy of Sundays on the ‘tatoes and the crust of Mondays and the meat of Tuesdays)
of + pronoun ® on (ten on them living on ten bob) | 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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