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Description: | William relates an anecdote about an American who once came to him looking for old timber to ship back to the USA. He also briefly recalls the Stratford Mop.
The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion. Stratford (-upon-Avon) is a town to the south of Hockley Heath. Tanworth-in-Arden (just to the southwest of Hockley Heath) and Hampton-in-Arden (to the northwest) are nearby villages in the surrounding area known as the Forest of Arden.
lexis
yankie = American; ah = yes; wireless = radio; wake = small local festival; mop = annual festival or holiday
phonology
H-dropping
MOUTH [{U]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a: ~ A:]; PRICE [OI]; GOAT [OU]
note also half [a:f], Arden [a:d@n ~ a:dIn], off [O:f], made [mEd], take [tEk], more [mOU@], Tanworth (-in-Arden) [tan@T], where [wI@], tunes [tu:nz], amusements [mju:zmEnts] and one [wOn]
grammar
first person plural was (when we was a-pulling an old half-timbered house down; we was a-cleaving it up; we was brought up when we made our own amusements)
(when we was a-pulling an old half-timbered house down; we was a-cleaving it up)
preterite come (a yankie come up with his … he’d got a motorbike; his mother come to Stratford every year; wild beast and all that come)
relative pronoun ® what (the rafter off the roof what carries the tiles); relative pronoun ® as (it’s old oak as they want)
of + pronoun ® on (made out on it)
zero plural marker on nouns (six pound; wild beast and all that)
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (there’s one at Stratford, ain’t [Ent] there?)
note the construction he should be very pleased = he would be very pleased | 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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