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Description: | Boss and Tom share memories about quarrying and work in the copper mine and one of them recalls an occasion when he thought he might lose his job after missing work to watch the local hunt. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions.
lexis
aye = yes; by gum! = by God! (exclamation of disbelief); happen = maybe, perhaps; somewhat = something; nobbut = only; to have someone on the carpets = to send for someone for the purposes of reprimanding or scolding; itsell = itself; ga = to go; sop = cloud of mist or smoke
phonology
definite article ® [t]; occasional rhoticity; very occasional H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (icicles [haIsIk=lz])
FACE [e: ~ e:@]
note also work [w@`:k], shoot [SUt], taking [takIn], right [r/i:t], by hand [bI hEnd], landed [lant], over [U@ ~ u:v@], fairly [f@`:li], sack [sEk]; me [m@], get [gIt], washing [wESIn] and comes [kUz]
grammar
use of thee and thou (thou knows; I tell thee somewhat; no, thee; when thou sees)
zero definite article (I put _ powder in; it come out _ quarry; I worked at _ mines; at _ hunt; what’s _ weather for?)
zero of (lump _ ore)
determiner, those ® them (two times the size of them boxes; it fairly shook them houses)
preterite come (it come out _ quarry)
out + zero of (out _ quarry)
preterite telled (I telled him I was at hunt)
zero plural marker on noun (nine shilling a week)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker thou knows [Da na:z]. Note the construction it hadn’t to occur again = it must not occur again and the phrase what’s weather for? Note also the saying when thou sees the mist, it goes up in sops, it comes down in drops. | 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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