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Description: | Leonard talks about his working life and his father’s mill. He also recalls a character from the village in his younger days. Sladesbridge (just to the southeast of Egloshayle) is a nearby village and Wadebridge (just to the west) the nearest town. Dunmere is a village further to the southeast on the outskirts of the town of Bodmin and Exeter a city to the northwest. Salisbury Plain (further to the northwest) is one of Great Britain's best-known open spaces, consisting of a plateau-like area covering about 300 square miles in the county of Wiltshire.
lexis
improver = person placed in trade for work experience at reduced wages; fagged out = exhausted (colloquial); provender = chaff (mixed dry feed for horses)
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; + V ® [d]
MOUTH [EU ~ @U]; PRICE [aI ~ @I ~ AI]; NORTH [O`:]; START [A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; SQUARE [E@`]; lettER [@`]
note also passed [pa:st], eleven [lEv=n], getting [gEdIn], better [bEd@`], by [bI], father [fa:D@`], ones [wUnz], few [fu:], wasn’t [w@d=n] and it wasn’t [tw@d=n]
grammar
determiner, those ® they (in they days)
second person was (you could leave when you was fourteen; then you was fagged out by night; anything you could get hold of you was lucky to get it; you wasn’t confined so much; you was outdoors working as much as you was in); third person plural was (of course, the years was going on); first person plural was (when we was night work we used to spring about too much by day)
preterite done (that done me more good than anything)
(What trade was that? A-flour-milling)
third person plural is (most of the old ones is gone)
to be + past participle (most of the old ones is gone = most of the old ones have gone)
zero plural marker on noun (a few year ago; for eighteen year)
adjective as adverb (you’d get agitated very quick) | 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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