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Description: | Dick recalls German POW’s working on a land reclamation scheme designed to hold back the tide. Sutton Bridge is a town just to the southeast of Lutton and Holbeach a town just to the northwest.
lexis
this here = this; yon = that (over there); aforehand = beforehand; these here = these; great = big, large; cause = because; brack = salt water
phonology
definite article + V ® [D] (the expense [DEkspEns], the other [DUD@]); H-dropping; glottal reinforcement of /t/ (1918 [nAIn?ti:nEI?i:n], at it [a?t I?t], forty [fO@?tI], have to [E?t@] and water [wO:?t@])
PRICE [AI > VI]; MOUTH [{U]; GOAT [OU]; NORTH [O@]; START [a:]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [U]; happY [I]
® [Iv@]
note also (be)cause [bIkO:z ~ kUz], I should think [AIsTINk ~ AI SUd TINk], barrOWs[bar/@z], with [wI], one [wQn], ever so many [Iv@ s@ mEnI], make [mEk], yes [jIs], doesn’t [dUnt], great [gr/@t], there [DI@], places [plEIzIz] and something [sUmINk]
grammar
zero plural marker on nouns (two thousand acre; twelve hundred acre; two men’ll shift more ton in a day than forty navvies with barrows)
third person plural was (they was at it at the time; they was at it aforehand)
zero auxiliary (they _ got it blocked in now)
multiple negation (I didn’t never hear nobody say; she doesn’t go through now nowhere; there’s places there the water never hardly touches the seabank; the tides never hardly get to it)
preterite done (they done it a lot quicker this time; they done it with big baskets)
gender assigned to it (she (= tide) doesn’t go through now nowhere)
there is + plural complement (there’s places there the water never hardly touches the seabank)
note the constructions I should think there’ll be a crop on it this year, I should think somewhere round about a thousand, I should think they’ll have to pay the government so much a year and I should think so = I would think | 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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