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Description: | Polly relates a couple of amusing anecdotes concerning friends who thought they had seen a ghost at Harwood church. It is presumed The Nab and The Finisher’s Arms are names of public houses. Ainsworth is a village to the south of Harwood, west of Bolton.
lexis
yon = that (over there); sexton = church warden; lych-gate = roofed gateway to churchyard; ne’er = never; ax = to ask; fro = from; road = way
phonology
definite article + C ® [?]; definite article + V ® [T]; H-dropping; rhoticity; to + infinitive ® [?] (so as he had [?] be up all night digging this grave; he had [?] be buried next day after; they had [?] go through; I’d not time [?] dress me; he had [?] tell them at finish)
MOUTH [E:]; GOAT [o:]; NURSE [@`:]; PRICE [a:]; START [@`:]; FACE [E:]; NORTH [O`;]; lettER [@`]; happY [I]
® [u:k]; ® [EUd], ® [wa]
note also last [la:s], night [ni:t], one [wQn], Harwood [{r/@d], no [n@`:], there [DI@`], father [faD@`], school [skY:], day [de:], going [gUIn], get [gi:t], forward [far/Ud], frightened [fr/i:t=nd], ne’er [n@`:], loaded [lU@dId], go [gU], both [bU@T], churchyard [tS@tSj@`:d], field [fi:lt], by [bI] and home [wUm]
grammar
relative pronoun ® as (yon man, as has that farm; he had to tell them at finish as it were him) zero relative pronoun (there were a ghost _ jumped off the wall)
third person singular were (it were his father; he were the sexton, then; he were just past that lych-gate; this grave were under there; he didn’t know what it were; ask him what time it were; then there were another - an old chap; this were a big tall old chap; he didn’t know what time it were; there were a ghost jumped off the wall; it were hell as like, it were me in my shirt; I didn’t know what time it were; it were him you know) first person singular were (I ne’er were frightened going past Harwood church as I were this morning; I were jumping down)
complementiser, that ® as (somebody died with a very serious fever, so as he had to be up all night)
zero definite article (he had to be buried _ day after; they sees him jump off _ wall; I seed it jump off _ wall; at _ finish)
independent personal pronoun (him next door to the Nab)
multiple negation (not thinking naught about it)
past participle getten (he’s getten past the lych gate; he’d getten up one morning); preterite get (I never stopped till I get forward; I run across right and get on the wall and I were jumping down)
past participle took (he had both of his hands took off at Ainsworth’s Croft)
preterite come (well he come out of the house; I come straight fro home)
verbal inflection with plural pronoun (they sees him)
preterite seed (I seed it jump off wall)
object pronoun as reflexive pronoun (Jack goes home and dresses him; I’d not time to dress me)
use of thou (which road hast come?)
have as full verb (I’d not time to dress me)
preterite run (I run across right and get on the wall)
note also use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ no:] | 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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