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Description: | William speaks about the hardship of life in his younger days. He describes how people lived off the produce of their gardens and talks about the lack of welfare payments. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions.
lexis
grub = food (colloquial); trippet = iron grating placed on top of and across kitchen fire for pans to rest on; suety dump = suet dumpling; aye = yes
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; occasionally ® [v] (find [v@Ind] and fire [v@I@`])
START [A`: ~ a`:]; NURSE [@`:]; SQUARE [E@`]; FACE [e:]; PRICE [@I]; MOUTH [@u]; STRUT [@ ~ U]; LOT [A.]; lettER [@`]
note also it was [tw@z], nothing [n@TIn], warm [wA`:m], with [wI], away [@waI], wouldn’t [Ud=nt], after [a:t@`] and one [wUn]
grammar
use of ye (they find ye work)
zero plural marker on noun (two or three mile; about twenty-five year)
multiple negation (no pay nor nothing; there was not no more than their garden; it was no labour exchange nor nothing; I haven’t done nothing – not since)
zero auxiliary (some _ got them in the old houses)
third person plural be (the pots used to be a little bit different to what they be now);
relative pronoun ® as (the handles as come over, like, the kettle, look)
periphrastic do (then that did hang it up to cook it; if I did have any food; I did have it and then I went to the doctor’s)
preterite come (then I come out)
first person singular object pronoun ® I (they told I that no good riding anything about any more)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers look [lUk] and look see! [lUksi:] | 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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