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Description: | The speaker compares farming practices now with those of his younger days.
lexis
cause = because; a-fifteen = fifteen; bob = shilling (colloquial); about = around
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; ® [v] (fifteen [vIfti:n], five [v{:Iv], four [vO`:]; fourteen [vO`:di:n]); also ® [z] (so [zou], say [zeI], said [zEd], something [zVmDIN], sixpence [zIksp@ns], ourselves [@`:zEL/vz] and sold [zoUL/d]) and voiceless ® [D] (something [zVmDIN]) or ® [d] (three [dr/i:])
MOUTH [9Y]; GOAT [o: ~ ou]; GOOSE [Y:]; PRICE [AI ~ {:I]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; LOT [A ~ Q]; lettER [@`]
note also it is [tIz], can’t [ka:nt], answer [a:ns@], eighteen [eIdi:n], thirty [T@`:di], good [gYd], better [bEd@`], with [wI], few [fY:], one [wQn] and here [I@`]
grammar
first person plural subject pronoun ® us (when us used to be on the farms us used to go on)
zero plural marker on noun (five pound; four pound)
there is + plural complement (there is some tractors’ll make a proper job of it)
zero auxiliary (there is some tractors _ ’ll make a proper job of it)
third person plural am (I don’t know why they’m better)
third person plural was (horse ploughs was good ploughs)
multiple negation (I don’t go nowhere) | 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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