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Description: | John explains the technique used to mow barley and recalls the use of a flail for threshing turnip seeds. Shardale is a hilly area of the wolds to the southeast of Rillington. Oswaldkirk is a village some distance to the west.
lexis
Galloway = type of small horse, pony; tother = the other; lea = scythe; swathe = space covered by a sweep of the mower's scythe; hae = to have; frail = flail used for threshing by hand; mebbe = maybe; fay = winnowing machine; cause = because; scalings = leftovers from threshing; loose out = to release, set free
phonology
definite article ® [t]; H-dropping
START [a:]; PRICE [a: ~ aI]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [u:]; GOAT [o:]
® [Iv@]; ® [_tr/]; ® [QnI]; ® [@]; ® [aN]
old [O@d]; to [tI]; with [wIv > wI], four [fQU@], over [OU@], Galloway [gal@w@], lea [lEI], make [mak], turnips [tQn@ps], once [wOns], (be)cause [kQs], engines [IndZ@nz], do [dIU], horse [Qs], in [I], thought [T@Ut], oats [wOts], loosed [laUst]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (all them hillsides at Shardale; them old men used to mow them)
zero definite article (I think _ biggest tale)
at + general time phrase (at morning)
relative pronoun ® at (lad at I worked with); relative pronoun ® as (when he got to the far end of the field as he was mowing across)
preterite gat (as soon as he gat to the far end of the field)
past participle sharped (where there was a man standing with another ready-sharped lea)
preterite telled (that’s what they telled [tElt] me)
have as full verb (he hadn’t anybody gathering and tying up)
of + pronoun ® on (to make a nice swathe on it)
note 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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