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Description: | Ernie talks about brewing beer and outlines farm labourers’ wages. The original recording appears to have been paused on three occasions. Middleton Cheney is a town just to the southwest of Sulgrave and Kings Sutton a village further to the southwest. The Dolphin refers to the public house of that name in Middleton Cheney.
lexis
copper = large copper vessel for boiling or cooking; mash tub = vat in which malt and water are mixed to form wort during brewing process; hae = to have; above = more than; bob = shilling (colloquial); ‘tween = between; by = past; gramp = grandfather (term of endearment); fat = to fatten
phonology
H-dropping; occasional T-glottaling; rhoticity
MOUTH [EI]; PRICE [OI]; FACE [aI]; START [V`:]; NURSE [@`:]; STRUT [U]; lettER [@`]
note also one [wUn] and once [wUns], mash [mES], there [DI@`] and here [I@`], second [sEk@nt], with [wI], barrels [bar/oz], matter [ma?@`], harvest [V`:vIs], man [mAn ~ man], nothing [nUTINk], kept them [kEp Um], got to [gQ?@], week [wIk], meat [mEIt ~ mi:t], bacon [be@?k=n], fat [fEt], ago [@gu:], always [O:l@s], go [gu:], often [Af@n] and pig feast [pIg fI@s]
grammar
third person singular were (first lot, that were the best; that’s how it were worked; anybody’d say that were right, it were the truth)
first person plural subject pronoun ® us (about 165 gallons us used to do up there)
zero plural marker on noun (for two month)
multiple negation (you never had no more; if you were using one of these scythes you didn’t have no more)
past participle seed (I have seed twenty or thirty stand up in that corner)
zero auxiliary (he _ got to live)
zero finite verb (they _ too blooming miserable)
note the construction should you like so and so? = would you like so and so? | 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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