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Description: | Ted recalls driving and ploughing with four horses in line. Wolverhampton is a large town to the east of Hilton and Bridgnorth a small town just to the west.
lexis
less = unless; tother = other; cause = because; gee-ho line = reins of plough horse; motor = (motor) car; tub = covered carriage; ah = yes; reckon = to calculate; headland = strips of land left unploughed at ends of field and subsequently ploughed at right angles; cop = central ridge of ploughed land; rean = drainage space between ridges in ploughed field; butt = division of ploughed field contained between two parallel furrows; afore = before
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity
START [a`:]; NURSE [@`:]; PRICE [AI]; MOUTH [{U]; GOAT [@U ~ {U]; STRUT [U]; lettER [@`]
note also you [j@U], four [f@U@`], us [@s], (be)cause [kQz ~ bIkQz ~ bIkQs ~ kUs], horse [A`:s], fasten [fa:s@n], one [wOn] and once [wUns], going [gUIn] and go [gU ~ gu:], furrow [fUr/@], seen [sIn], couldn’t [kUdn@], make [mEk], there [DI@`], take [tEk] and almost [Qm@st]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (all them big towns)
preterite come (then it come as they stopped us)
complementiser, that ® as (then it come as they stopped us); complementiser, so that ® as (puts the two first double as we got them more under control)
first person plural was (we was to have three); third person plural was (they was took off the road altogether)
verbal inflection with plural subject ((we …) puts the two first double; some people just keeps one for a bit of holiday)
past participle took (they was took off the road altogether)
demonstrative pronoun, those ® they (you couldn’t tell with they)
zero indefinite article (some people just keeps one for a bit of _ holiday; you’d leave _ headlands width)
zero auxiliary (I _ never seen it measured)
zero of (other side _ Bridgnorth; just tother side _ that)
zero for + time phrase (you might plough _ two days) | 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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