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Description: | Mr Fothergill gives an account of a typical year in a sheep farmer’s life from shearing and dipping, to mating and lambing.
lexis
ruddle = red ochre used to mark sheep; tup = male lamb; atween = between; tupping = mating (of sheep); aye = yes; fell = high moorland; happen = maybe, perhaps; saulve = type of mixture (made from Stockholm tar, whale oil and grease) smeared onto sheep, before sheep dip became widely available; sae = so; shed = to part hair, divide hair or wool on animal; cade = sheep ticks; while = till; hog = young sheep before its first shearing; shearing, two-shearing etc. = name given to sheep according to its age (dependent on the number of times it has been shorn); afore = before; braid = broad (here = sheep’s molar teeth)
phonology
definite article ® [t]; occasional H-dropping; /r/ ® [r/ > 4]
START [a:]; FLEECE [@I]; GOAT [o:]; PRICE [a: ~ a:I]; FACE [e@]
® [OUd]; ® [O:]; ® [tl]; ® [aN]; ® [wa]
note also tups [tju:ps], ewes [jaUz ~ jOUz], break [br/Ek], blue [blIU], haven’t [Ev=nt], fortnight [fQtn@t], first [f@st], enclosure [ENklo:zj@], make [mEk] and made [mEd], grease [gr/I@s], quarter [kwa:t@], because [bIkQs], warm [wa:m], old [a:d], getten [gIt@n] and gets [gIts], comes [kUz] and four [fQU@]
grammar
demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (them at’s been ruddled)
relative pronoun ® at (them at’s been ruddled)
third person plural has (them at’s been ruddled)
zero relative pronoun (up _ bottom of the fleeces)
complementiser, so that ® sae as (that close together, sae as saulve would run into the skin)
zero plural marker on noun (fourteen or fifteen month old)
zero auxiliary (when they _ getten dipped)
past participle getten (when they getten dipped)
have as full verb (it hasn’t two braid teeth)
note also use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ no:]. Note also the construction there was no dipping = there wasn’t any dipping. | 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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