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Description: | Mr Glapson recalls mowing corn by hand and talks about work on the farm in his younger days. There is some background traffic noise on the original recording.
lexis
stook = group of sheaves of grain placed upright and supporting each other in order to permit drying and ripening of grain before carrying; this here = this
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; + V ® [d]
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI]; FACE [{I]; GOAT [QU]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; lettER [@`]
note also after [a:ft@`], by [b@], better [bEd@`], fourteen [fO`:?i:n] and boy [bUI]
grammar
third person plural be + negative particle ® ain’t (a good lot ain’t they?)
first person singular have + negative particle ® ain’t (ain’t used them this year though)
preterite done (we always done it the hard way)
first person plural was (we was happy enough in it); third person plural was (if they was happy)
multiple negation (we never used to have none of that) | 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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