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Description: | Ralph recalls his schooldays and talks about market gardening. Evesham is a town just to the southwest of Bretforton and Wolverhampton a large town to the north. King’s Norton is a southern suburb of the city of Birmingham, also to the north of Bretforton.
lexis
cause = because; fetch = to bring; a-one = one; somewhat = something; thrape = to thrash, beat, smack
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity
GOAT [AU]; PRICE [@I]; START [@`:]; NURSE [@`:]; MOUTH [{U]; NORTH [A`: ~ O`:]; THOUGHT [A:]; BATH [a: ~ A:]; STRUT [U]; LOT [A.]; lettER [@`]
note also (be)cause [kOz], go [gU ~ gAU], us [@s], with [wI], one [wUn], Birmingham [b@`:mgUm], after [A:d@` ~ a:ft@`], year [I@`], good ones [gUd@nz] and this one [DIs@n], there [DE`:], square [skw@`:] and always [A:l@s]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (not a bit in them days)
preterite gen (he gen me a good hiding; he gen them all a damned good thraping)
zero relative pronoun (there was a-one _ come from Birmingham; there’s some _ works for bigger firms)
preterite come (there was a-one come from Birmingham; he come and he had this place offered him at Wolverhampton)
third person plural was (the kids was all gone wild; they was every one born and bred in the village)
relative pronoun ® as (this man as had to take them over)
first person plural object pronoun ® we (he used to work and help we; we worked for him and he worked for we)
verbal inflection with plural pronoun (they does on their own; some works for bigger firms)
there is + plural complement (there’s some works for bigger firms) | 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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