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Description: | Arthur recalls his grandfather mowing by hand and talks about his experiences as a livestock farmer.The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions.
lexis
lea = scythe; tomorn = tomorrow; aye = yes; naught = nothing; suchlike = and other things of such character; aught = anything; biv = by (+ V); backend = late autumn; tup lamb = male lamb; over = too; tiv = to (+ V); shearling = sheep that has been shorn once
phonology
definite article + C ® [?t > t]; definite article + V ® [t]; H-dropping; very occasional rhoticity
START [a:]; GOAT [O:]; GOOSE [Uu;]; FACE [E: ~ E@]; FLEECE [i: > I@]; PRICE [aI ~ a:]; MOUTH [@u:]; happY [I]
® [Iv@]; ® [wa]
note also father [fa:D@ > fE@D@], old [O:d], lea [laI], once [wQns], to [tI], mowed [mju: ~ mE@d], by [bI], forks [fO`ks], don’t [dI@nt] and do [dI@], makes [mEks], always [O:l@z], naught [nOUt] and aught [aUt], doing [dI@n], showing [SaUIn], over [aU@], have [Ev], taken [tE@n] and take [tak > tEk], get [gIt], young one [jUN@n], bought [bO@t > b@Ut], give [gI], neighbour [naIb@`], daren’t [da:nt], right [r/@i:t], not [n@t], work [w@r/k] and because [bIkQs]
grammar
zero relative pronoun (there was Agar _ lived on that farm)
third person plural was (was my grandfather and him); third person plural is (as good as times is)
inverted verb phrase as tag (they were cousins, was my grandfather and him; he bought the whole herd of Ranks’s, did this Cecil Moores)
independent personal pronoun (my grandfather and him)
zero plural marker on nouns (three acre; thirty year; two year ago)
have as full verb (we have a few pedigrees; a bull I have now; a Bampton bred bull we have now; I have a young one coming up off him; he has some good lambs by him)
word order with ever (he’ll have a lot better chance than ever I had = than I ever had)
preterite give (I give 95 guineas for him; I give 45 guineas for him); preterite gen (after thou gen all that money for him)
use of thou (after thou gen all that money for him)
multiple negation (never take no notice on it)
of + pronoun ® on (take no notice on it)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers you know [j@ nO:] and like [laIk] and utterance initial discourse marker why [waI]. Note also the construction where had they to start? = where did they have to start? | 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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