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Description: | Jack recounts how he built up his flock of Cheviot sheep and then goes on to talk about hedging and hedging equipment. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion.
lexis
grand = fine, great, excellent; chevvies (Cheviots) = hardy breed of short-wooled hill sheep; aye = yes; serve = to bring ram and ewe together for mating purposes; about here = round here; cause = because; broom-hook = bill-hook (short-handled implement used to trim hedges); brushing-hook = hedging bill (long-handled implement used to trim hedges); this here = this; pleach = to plash a hedge, (interlace or intertwine stems and branches of young trees and brushwood to fill in gaps at bottom of hedge)
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; indefinite article + V ® a (a axe)
NURSE [@`:]; NORTH [O`:]; GOAT [o:]; FACE [e:]; MOUTH [{U]; PRICE [{I ~ QI]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [V]; START [a`:]; lettER [@`]
note also moor [mU@`], here [I@`], one [wVn], (be)cause [kOs], nothing [nVTIn], perhaps [pr/aps], broom-hook [br/Vm@k] and their [D@`]
grammar
third person singular were (it weren’t far)
relative pronoun ® as (sell those as we were going to sell; anybody as, like, wanted one of these little fields; your fellah as is with you catches hold of these things)
preterite run (when the rams run with them, of course, they'd got to be brought down)
multiple negation (I was never wealthy nor nothing)
non-standard word order with never (I never was an hedger = I was never a hedger)
zero plural marker on noun (four foot)
gender assigned to it (well, he (= fence) may be; you bring him (= chopper) down)
zero relative clause (there’s a lot _ got to be cut out) | 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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