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Description: | Mr Sim describes the type of sturdy shoe made locally and worn when working on rough ground. He then goes on to identify a variety of farm vehicles and sheep shearing techniques from photographs presented to him. The original recording seems to have been paused on three occasions.
lexis
till = to (+ V); aye = yes; naught = nothing; nae = no; fell = high moorland; a-purpose = on purpose; low-shoes = shoes (as opposed to boots); shelvings = detachable boards fixed to sides of farm cart or wagon to increase capacity; gilly = farm-hand, lad; lile = little; mebbe = maybe; ga = to go; and all = too, also, as well; fellies = sections of wooden rim on cartwheel; stang = cart-shaft; keck-bar = vertical rod in front of cart, perforated to allow adjustments when tipping; loose off = to release; on a skwint = askew; aught = anything; lig = to lie; coppy = small, wooden stool
phonology
very occasional H-dropping; /r/ ® [r/ ~ r]; definite article ® [t ~ ?]
FACE [E:]; START [a:]; GOOSE [Uu:]; GOAT [O: ~ OU]
® [aN]; ® [Iv@]; ® [u:k ~ Uk]
note also naught [n@Ut] and aught [@Ut], had [Ed], over [Qv@], one [wQn], there [DeI@], these ones [Di:z@nz] and that one [Dat=n], narrOW [nar/i], made [mEd], more [mE@], right [r/EIt], head [I@d > jId], have [hEv] and stool [stIUl]
grammar
zero definite article (_ shoemaker wasn’t; over _ top; look at _ hooks on them; at _back)
adjective as adverb (shoemaker wasn’t getting on so good)
inverted verb phrase as tag (he made country shoes, did this fellah; they’ve wider wheels, has south country carts)
have as full verb (my foot’s a bit of length; they all have these low-shoes; they’ve wider wheels; they’ve wider fellies; they haven’t lower wheels on; it hasn’t a bar on to tip it up; if you haven’t a stool)
determiner and demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (them days; them at’s made)
third person plural has (they’ve wider wheels, has south country carts)
zero determiner (they haven’t _ lower wheels on = they haven’t (got) any lower wheels on)
relative pronoun ® at (them at’s made with iron wheels)
multiple negation (they’d never had nae sheep would lig with its head away back like that)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers you know [j@ nO:] and like [lEIk] | 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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