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Description: | William describes his work as a forester in several local woods and recalls visiting the estate he worked on after it had been converted to a pleasure park. Dales Wood is a farm in Great Farley Wood (southwest of Romsley). Frankley is a village to the east and Hagley a town to the west of Romsley.
lexis
this here = this; tother = other; road = way; bob = shilling (colloquial)
phonology
definite article + V ® [D]; H-dropping; very occasional rhoticity
GOAT [OU]; PRICE [Qi]; MOUTH [EU ~ {U]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; lettER [@ ~ @`]
note also them [Um], year(s) [jI@` ~ jI:z], one [wQn], yes [jIs], dead ones [dEd=nz] and small ones [smO:L/=nz], I shall [as=L/], there [DI@], goes [gUz] and going [guIn] and go [gu:], work [w@:k > w@`:k], going to be [gUn@ bI], gardens [gA:dInz], chair [tSI@], something [sUmINk ~ sUmTINk], seed [sId] and borrow [bQr/@]
grammar
determiner and demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (all them trees I used to plant; them in the Dales Wood was planted when I was about thirteen)
third person plural was (them in the Dales Wood was planted when I was about thirteen)
relative pronoun ® what (there was one patch what was planted at ’99); relative pronoun ® at (there’s only two on us left now at worked on the estate)
gender assigned to it (we brushed him (= patch of trees) in 1911)
(they’re a-chopping some on them down; they’m a-chopping all the big trees down in Hagley Wood; they’m a-doing it up; they’re a –going to have a caretaker there)
third person plural am (they’m going to London and all, trees am; they’m a-chopping all the big trees down in Hagley Wood; where the gardens am, and the Hall; they’m closing the park up; they’m going to make it a pleasure ground); third person plural is (the bricklayers is there)
of + pronoun ® on (they chopped a lot on them down; there’s only two on us left now; they’re going to make some money out on it; every inch on it; the gardener used to borrow two on us)
zero auxiliary (they _ been at it just lately; you _ got to pay a bob)
third person plural be + negative particle ® ain’t (they ain’t chopping any down now)
verbal inflection with I (I goes and has a look at it; I spends a lot my days up in that wood; I goes to Hagley to the market; I comes round and up the park and has a look at him; when I gets up to the top; I says)
zero of (I spends a lot _ my days up in that wood)
first person has (I goes and has a look at it; I comes round and up the park and has a look at him)
there is + plural complement (there’s only two on us left now)
preterite seed (I seed nobody about)
zero plural marker on noun (three thousand pound)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ nOU]. Note the construction I shall have a look in the morning = I’ll have a look in the morning and I shall pay no bob = I won’t pay a bob. | 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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