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Description: | Harry talks about the traditional farming techniques involved in stacking, ploughing, milking and hedging. Some of the interviewer’s questions appear to have been edited out of the original recording.
lexis
yelm = bundle of straw laid out for thatching; jack = apparatus for carrying bundles of straw; rick = haystack; staddle-stones = stones placed at each corner of stack, with poles across to form base of stack; sheaf = bundle of straw; land = division of land, strip of ploughed corn-field or pasture-field; ridge = raised strip in ploughed field; furrow = narrow trench made by plough; heighth = height; whipple-tree = evener on horse-drawn plough; manger = trough in cowshed; standing = partition between stalls in cowshed; heatherings = layer of heather thatching to bind hedge; bill-hook = short-handled implement used for trimming hedge; slasher = hedging bill
phonology
H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (open [h@Up=n]); rhoticity; + V ® [d]
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI]; FACE [EI > {I]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; START [A`:]; STRUT [V], lettER [@`]
note also either [aID@`], after [a:ft@`], yelms [j@Umz], across [@kr/O:s], one [w@n ~ wOn], year [j@`;], kept [kEp], furrow [fVr/@U ~ fVr/@], perhaps [pr/aps], there [DE`:], half [a:f] and bill-hook [bIlVk]
grammar
preterite come (until you come to the eaves; you come round and you ploughed that one over)
preterite done (what you done)
gender assigned to it (you started at the bottom and ploughed him (= land) round)
past participle showed (I could’ve showed you then) | 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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