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Description: | John gives an account of farming throughout the seasons and refers to his personal experiences of harvesting, haymaking, mowing by hand, lambing, dipping and sheep shearing. He also describes how to clip a sheep using hand-shears. Burnhope is a village east of Wearhead, between Consett and Durham.
lexis
syne = ago; aye = yes; nobbut = only; this country = this district, area; dale = valley; frae = from; naebody = nobody; sole = smooth surface of scythe blade; great = big, large; sneathe = shaft or handle on scythe; afore = before; sae = so; backend = late autumn; draft = a sheep selected and removed from the flock for selling; tupping = breeding season; fell = high moorland; naught = nothing; hanch = haunch; hind-quarters; theirsells = themselves; yan = one; nae = no; about here = around here; cale = caul, amnion or inner membrane enclosing foetus before birth; canna = cannot; shearing = yearling sheep (sheep after one shearing)
phonology
definite article ® [? ~ t]
PRICE [EI ~ a:I]; GOAT [o:]; MOUTH [@u:]; FACE [e: ~ e@]; START [a:]
® [aN]; ® [@i:t]; ® [Iv@]; ® [QnI]; ® [tl]
note also do [di:], always [O:l@z], something [sUmTINk], first [fUst], year [jE@], more [mE@], acre [jEk@], great [g@t], over [aU@], fodder [fQD@], aught [aUt], enough [@nI@f], open [Qp@n], takes [taks], none [ni:n], ewe [jaU], sick [sEk], get [gIt] and head [hi:d]
grammar
gender assigned to it (to keep her (= farm) in repair)
zero plural marker on noun (this last few year)
zero article (since _ tractors come; at _ farm; up at _ neck)
preterite come (since tractors come; afore the machines come)
determiner, those ® them (on them bank sides)
zero for + time phrase (I’ve mown _ hours and days with scythe)
verbal inflection with you (you starts away ... and goes around); with plural pronoun (some gets pains)
zero relative clause (there’s a few _ lost a few ewes; there’s always some _ sick)
third person plural has (some has tried)
adjective as adverb (fair good one; they lamb quite easy)
past participle swelled (swelled head)
note the use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ no:] and utterance initial discourse marker why [wEI] | 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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