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Description: | Percy talks about his knack with difficult horses. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion and the recording stops before the speaker has finished his account. Hawksworth is a village to the southeast of Oxton and Winkburn, Hockerton and Maplebeck are all villages just to the northeast.
lexis
cause = because; stave = handle, shaft; standing = stall in stable; tit = small horse; besom stave = broom handle; hiding = beating, thrashing; theirsens = themselves; and all = too, also, as well; score = twenty (or multiple thereof); aught = anything; naught = nothing; halter = tethering rope used to tie up horse; afore = before; gaffer = boss; manager (colloquial); hae = to have; (any) road = (any)way; mam = mother (term of endearment); naught = nothing; twitch = noose used to restrain horse during painful operation; hissen = himself; colt = young horse; filly = young female horse
phonology
occasionally definite article ® [D]; H-dropping; + V ® [r/]
PRICE [A: ~ A:I]; FACE [E:]; START [a:]; GOAT [o: ~ @u]; MOUTH [{:]; NURSE [I: ~ @:]; STRUT [U]; happY [E ~ I]
® [EUd]
note also (be)cause [k@s], rough one [r/Uf@n] and black one [blak@n], horse [Qs], doesn’t [dOnt], goes [gUz] and go [gU] and going [gUIn], auctioneers [QkS@nI@z], years [jI:z], in [I], one [wQn], half [a:f], won’t [we:nt], aught [@Ut] and naught [n@Ut], after [aft@], broke [br/Qk], bought [b@Ut] and thought [T@Ut], over here [Qv@r/I@] and there [DI@], fodder [fQD@], had [Ed], grass [gr/Es], halter [EL/t@], took [tUu:k], found [fUnd], mother [mQD@], works [wI:z] and worked [w@kt], with [wI], take [tEk] and make [mEk], home [Qm], new [nu:], only [OnI], wasn’t [wQnt], stone [stQn], couldn’t [kUnt], twitchES [twItS@z], took [tUuk], colt [kEUt] and durstn’t [dOs=nt]
grammar
zero indefinite article (I were _ rough one; I could hit _ horse and hold him; if a man’s got to hit _ horse); zero definite article (what’s _ matter?; _ gaffer were at home; where’s _ blacksmith’s shop?)
zero to + infinitive (you’ve got _ be friends); for to + infinitive (for to cart milk, sort of thing)
have as full verb (I’d eight in stables)
preterite and past participle gen (I gen them a feed; I gen them the bloodiest hiding; they gen me a drink; I’d gen him a good nick)
zero plural marker on nouns (120 pound; six pound apiece; eight stone)
multiple negation (they’d never done naught; he couldn’t make naught on him)
verbal inflection with plural pronoun (they says, “Who are you?”; I says, “My name’s Strutt”)
third person singular were (his name were (?) Tommy Terror; gaffer were at home; this chap were coming; this chap were there with this horse from Hockerton; his name were (?) Darnell; he thought it were me); first person singular were (I were going down Long Langley)
of + pronoun ® on (he thought the world on you; he couldn’t make naught on him; I put one on them on his nose; I put one on them on his ear; bring both on them)
preposition, past ® by (I’d come by it)
frightened of ® frightened at (he was frightened at him)
preterite begun (he begun to sweat; sweat begun to drop under his belly)
third person dare + negative particle ® durstn’t (the stable where they durstn’t go in) | 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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