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Description: | Harry talks about farm practices in his younger days and describes the gardens he laid at the Uppark estate. Uppark is a country house just to the southwest of East Harting.
lexis
(?) vernacle = cart-ladder (rack or framework at front, back, or sides of cart, to increase its carrying capacity); course = section of thatching; ploy = to employ; hurdle = fence used for sheep pen; bide = to stay
phonology
H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (hours [hEU@`z]); rhoticity; + V ® [d]
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; LOT [A > Q]; TRAP [{]; lettER [@`]
® [TINk ~ TIN]
note also deers [dI@`z], can’t [ka:nt], it is [tIz], one [wUn] and sheep [Si:p > SIp]
grammar
for to + infinitive (what they had for ladders for to take their big loads was, well, they called them (?) vernacles; they’ve let the land to some farmers for to grow corn; that was a day’s work for a man for to plough acre a day)
preterite drawed (then drawed out these bundles and took it up on a fork on your backs)
there is + plural complement (there’s no deers now)
non-standard plural marker (there’s no deers now)
third person plural subject pronoun ® them (they don’t ploy the labour, do them?)
zero indefinite article (used to reckon to do _ acre a day; that was a day’s work for a man for to plough _ acre a day)
of + pronoun ® on (that was the name on them) | 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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