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Description: | Thomas recalls bad winters and describes his work supplying timber from the Goyt Valley. He also briefly mentions a number of local lead mines.
Buxton is a spa town just to the northwest of Youlgreave and Alport a village just to the east. Whaley Bridge (to the northwest) is a small town in the Goyt Valley: an area in the west of The Peak District National Park on the Derbyshire / Cheshire border. Stockport is a large town further to the northwest.
lexis
aye = yes; tother = the other; else = or else, otherwise; a deal = a lot, much; fetch = to bring; drug = low truck for the carriage of timber and other heavy articles; happen = maybe, perhaps
phonology
definite article ® [?]; geminate consonant (cutting [kUttIn]); H-dropping; + V ® [r/]; very occasional rhoticity; Yorkshire assimilation (Whaley Bridge Station [br/ItS ste:S@n]; we had some [a? sUm] snow)
FLEECE [eI ~ i:]; PRICE [A:I]; GOAT [o:]; MOUTH [{: > a:]; STRUT [U]; lettER [@ ~ @`]; kissES [@z]
® [TINk ~ TIn]
note also one [wOn], last [last], didn’t [dIdn@], nothing [nUTIn], bought [bQUt ~ bQ:t], sold [sEUd], big one [bIg@n], because [bIkQz], only [o:nI], travelled [tr/avIld], horsES [Qs@z], weren’t [wUn@], couldn’t [kUdn@], by [bI], getting [gEr/In], wash-house [wES{:s], with [wI] and placES [plEIz@z]
grammar
third person singular were (it were a bad winter; it were very bad; there were never a line up nor telegraph lines; Goyt Valley were a big one; it were getting a bit stiff; it were all blocked full; Sandy Lane were all blocked full); first person singular were (I were in hospital then)
preterite snew (it snew anything from ten to twelve foot)
zero plural marker on nouns (ten to twelve foot; three drug-load; three month; six foot)
multiple negation (there were never a line up nor telegraph lines nor nothing)
past participle stooden (we bought it stooden and sold it to different firms)
past participle for present participle (we bought it stooden = we bought it standing)
zero to + infinitive (we used _ go three times into Whaley Bridge station a day; we used _ let the horses stop up there; we used _ have _ go down there; we used _ supply Buxton lime works with timber; we used _ supply Warren Carr with timber)
zero for + time phrase (_ three month at a time) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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