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Description: | Fred talks about breaking in horses with his brother. Bugbrooke is a town just to the southwest of Kislingbury.
lexis
above = more than; against = next to, beside; ah = yes; rum = strange, peculiar
phonology
H-dropping
PRICE [AI]; MOUTH [EU]; START [A: > a:]; STRUT [V]
note also perhaps [pr/aps], once [wVns] and one [wUn], after [aft@], off [O:f], chair [tSI@], more [mU@], go [goU ~ gu:] and going to [gUn@], shafts [SA:vz], knew [nu:], nobody [nOb@di] and anything [EnITIN > EnITINk]
grammar
relative pronoun ® as (a horse as had been at work; the big mill as you see; horses as I’d had – they’d do anything for me)
preposition, off ® off of (I bought a horse, a young foal, off of a man)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (it ain’t old enough hardly)
(we’re a-going to put it)
comparative particle, than ® nor (no more nor that) | 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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