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Description: | Fred recalls ploughing with horses and picking stones from the fields to make roads. Black Notley is a village to the southeast of Cornish Hall End and Halstead (to the southeast) and Sudbury (to the northeast) are nearby towns.
lexis
about here = around here; tumbril = cart with body that tilts backwards for unloading; without = unless; haps = perhaps; see after = to look after; drill = to sow broadcast; lorry = long flat wagon without sides running on four low wheels; mild = mile; bushel = imperial measurement used for weighing corn etc. (equivalent to four pecks or eight gallons)
phonology
occasional H-dropping; L-vocalisation; TH-fronting (three [fri:] and with [wIv])
START [a:]; MOUTH [EU]; FACE [{I]; NURSE [@ ~ a:]; PRICE [OI]; GOAT [VU]; TRAP [{]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [V ~ a]
note also worked [wa:kt] and work [w@k], ago [@gu:] and go [gu:] and going [gUIn], hurdles [ha:d=L/z], one [wOn], couldn’t [kUnt], worth it [w@D It], after [a:ft@ > a:t@], home [hUm], wasn’t [wO:nt], only [Qni], furrow [TVr/@], off [O:f], minUTEs [mIn@ts], stones [stQnz] and (twenty-one bushels) to a [t@r/@] (yard)
grammar
third person plural have + negative particle ® ain’t (they ain’t got one about here now)
preterite see (the last time I see one what worked – that was about three years ago; I see an old farmer’d got one there in the tumbril)
relative pronoun ® what (the last time I see one what worked – that was about three years ago)
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (there ain’t one round here); third person plural be + negative particle ® ain’t (they ain’t [Int] same as they are today)
complementiser, that ® as (there ain’t one round here, not … no … as I know on – not … not today)
utterance final of ® on (there ain’t one round here, not … no … as I know on – not … not today)
of + general time phrase (an extra hour of a night)
third person plural was (wages wasn’t only twelve shillings a week; sprawling in the road they was; the roads years ago wasn’t so good as what they call by-lanes now)
there was + plural complement (haps there was, like, two horsemen in the stable)
negative construction as emphatic positive (wages wasn’t only twelve shillings = wages were only twelve shillings; they didn’t have only two = they only had two)
third person plural object pronoun ® they (ploughmen they used to call they)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (especially if that was wintertime) | 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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