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Description: | George talks about keeping a smallholding and describes the reduction in size of local fruit orchards in recent years. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion. Markham and Tuxford are villages to the south of Wheatley.
lexis
tother = the other; teem = to pour; cause = because; since = ago
phonology
occasionally definite article + C ® [?]; H-dropping
START [a:]; PRICE [a:I > A:I]; GOOSE [Uu:]; GOAT [o:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [a:@ ~ a:U]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]
® [dI]
note also half [a:f], there [DI@] and here [I@], one [wQn ~ wUn], CONtrolled [kQntr/OUL/d], used to [IUst@], great [gr/Et], beautiful [bUu:tIfUl], juice [dZIUs], couldn't [kUnt], (be)cause [bIkQz ~ k@z], don’t [dUnt] and do [dUu: ~ dU], overtime [Qv@ta:Im], have [Ev] and grandfather [gr/anfa:D@]
grammar
have as full verb (he has another field at back of that)
zero definite article (he has another field at _ back of that; about half _ size of this; a big disservice to _ general public; men didn’t earn enough to keep _ family)
preterite come (they come and said they shouldn’t be any more than 4d a pound)
third person plural was (the jam factories was to have them; they was absolutely doing a big disservice to general public; all the trees was done up)
determiner, those ® them (the people that made them laws; they’re mostly gone now, them cherry orchards)
third person plural is (man’s wages is more now)
zero of (a bit _ overtime)
zero plural marker on nouns (seven pound ten; hundred year since; 150 year since) | 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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