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Description: | Mr Bellingham talks about mowing and harvesting by hand and describes the work of the travelling threshers. Chailey is a village just to the southwest of Fletching.
lexis
swap = implement used to reap corn or beans in traditional chopping fashion; bond = straw band or tie used for binding or tying; fore = before; shock = to place sheaves of corn upright and supporting each other in order to permit drying and ripening of grain before carrying; faggot = bundle of sticks; sworth = row of mown grass; pikey = traveller, gipsy; poke = small sack; norn = nothing
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; ® [v] (from [vr@m]); ® [z] (you see [j@ zi:] and swaths [zwO`:z]); also voiceless ® [d] (threshing [dr/ESIn] and through [dr/u:]) or ® [t] (anything [EnItIN] and earth [@`:t]) and voiced ® [d] (the [d@ ~ di], they [dEI], with [wId], that [d{t], weather [wEd@`], them [dEm], otherwise [Vd@`wVIz], there [dE`:] and other [Vd@`])
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; TRAP [{]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]; + V ® [d]
note also very likely [v@`r/ lVIkli], young one [jVN@n] and old ones [@UL/d@nz], oats [@Uts > wUts], weren’t [wO`:n ~ wA:n] and it wasn’t [twO:n], half [ha:f], it was [tw@z], keep [kIp], by [bI], doesn’t [dVnt] and norn [nO@n]
grammar
third person plural was (they was moved with a scythe; if they was a bit on the green side; they used to have to walk from wherever they lived to the farm where they was threshing; wherever they was going); second person was (if you was a bit frightened about it)
gender assigned to it (rolled her (=wheat) up into a sheaf and then got a bond ready, you see, laid her out on the bond; you’d put him (= poke) in the middle and build all round him like that; they knowed when she (= wheat) was pretty well ready; they used to fill the old sack up as full as ever they could get her (= sack); leave her (= threshing machine) there all night)
zero to + infinitive (then they used to have _ shock them up); purpose + infinitive (used to put the old plate over top the old chimney, purpose keep smoke in, keep fire in)
of + pronoun ® on (the beans – some on them they used to pull them; some on them, they used to cut them up with a swap)
multiple negation (you couldn’t hardly see yourself; they doesn’t start not fore about halfway through the morning; he wouldn’t ride bike nor norn)
preterite knowed (they knowed when she was pretty well ready)
verbal inflection with third person plural pronoun (they doesn’t start not fore about halfway through the morning)
zero indefinite article (used to put the old plate over _ top the old chimney, purpose keep _ smoke in, keep _ fire in)
zero of (used to put the old plate over top _ the old chimney, purpose keep smoke in, keep fire in) | 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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