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Description: | John recalls an occasion when he sold a car for great profit and remembers a terrific thunderstorm passing over his smallholding. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. Derby is a city to the southeast of Kniveton.
lexis
folks = people; thissen = thyself, yourself; get = to become; bob = shilling; tother = the other; by Guy! = exclamation of disbelief, surprise; aye = yes; strag = stray, straggler
phonology
definite article ® [?]; + V ® [r/]; to + infinitive ® [?] (what are we going to do? [gUIn ? dEU]; art thou going to stop [gUIn ? stQp] with me?; let’s go to bed [gu: ? bEd] and go to sleep [gu: ? slEIp]; if thou can go to sleep [gu: ? slEIp] all right)
START [a:]; FLEECE [EI]; MOUTH [{:]; PRICE [A:]; STRUT [U]; happY [I]
® [EUd]; ® [EIt]; ® [EUk]
note also too hard [t@ ha:d], thou [Da ~ DEI ~ DI], man [mQn], laugh [lQf], doesn’t thou? [dust=n@], once [wUns], one [wQn] and none [nQn], bought [bEUt], and brought [br/EUt], where’s [wI@z] and there [DI@], wouldn’t [wUdn@], take [tEk], with [wI], only [o:nI], going [gUIn] and go [gu:], mother [mQD@], (thou) couldn’t [kQstn@] and (I) couldn’t [kUdn@], can’t [kQn@], us [Uz], so [su:], over [o@], because [bIkQs], last [last] and so bad [s@ bad]
grammar
zero definite article (what’s _ good of working too hard; thou’s worn thissen out by _ time as thou gets an old man; I were milling in _ shed)
use of thee and thou and thissen (thou knows; thou hast a bit of sense as thou gets a bit older; when thou starts stop, thou knows, thou wants start as an old man and keep on as old man and thou’d live longer; if thou startest and does a lot of work, folks laugh at thee; thou’s worn thissen out by time as thou gets an old man; doesn’t thou?; where’s (thou) got this from?; would (thou) let this youth run it up for me?; art (thou) all right, mother?; thou couldst not do naught on it; I’ll stop with thee; dost (thou) think so?; thou art all right; he’ll none hurt thee; if thou can go to sleep all right)
zero to + infinitive (when thou starts _ stop, thou knows, thou wants _ start as an old man; I used _ sell cars, motor cars;); for to + infinitive (I has just one cow left for to [f@?] finish)
relative pronoun ® as (thou’s worn thissen out by time as thou gets an old man; it’s only a strag as’ll hit us)
preterite gen (I gen a man a ride in it)
gender assigned to it (I bought her (= a car) at Derby; her (= the storm) kept coming; her (= the storm) busted her (= the tree) up; if thou can go to sleep all right, we shall none hear her (= the storm))
zero of (hoo hit that tree at tother side _ the field)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
third person singular feminine subject pronoun ® her (how much is her?; her only cost 30 bob, like; her kept coming; her busted her up); third person singular feminine subject pronoun ® hoo (hoo’s got us next time; but hoo went over; I couldn’t go out because hoo were that frightened)
zero plural marker on noun (I says sixteen pound)
preterite come (he come back again in about an hour; there come such a clap of thunder; I come and I says; all at once there come such a crash)
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