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Description: | James describes several jobs he did on the farm including threshing, stacking and helping his father with the pheasants and poultry. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion.
lexis
thrash = to thresh; ah = yes; booze = alcohol (colloquial); this here = this; sometime = sometimes; meal = chaff, undressed corn used as chicken feed; sitting = brood of chickens (from one sitting of eggs); mind = to look after; spur = sharp, hard projection on foot of domestic cock and certain other fowls and birds; bob = shilling (colloquial); learn = to teach; hatchet = light, short-handled axe
phonology
occasional H-dropping; T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (chickens [tSI?k=nz]) and of /p/ (gamekeeper [gEImki:?p@], I used to stop [sta?p] along of him, pepper [p{?p@], three-pence [_tr/I?p=ns] and puppies [p7?pIz])
START [a:]; MOUTH [EU > @u:]; GOAT [oU]; PRICE [VI]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [V ~ 7]; LOT [A]; CLOTH [O:]
note also father [fa:D@], half [a:f], first [f6st], barrOW [bar/@], nest box [nIistbAks], getting [gE?@n], sitting [sE?@n], nettles [nE?=L/z], one [w7n], water [wO:?@], putting [pU?@n], cutting [kV?@n], learned [lA:nd], eating [i:?In], us [Vz] and wanted [wQn?Id]
grammar
verbal inflection with I (when I starts going to work)
preposition, with ® along of (I used to stop along of him)
preterite come (sometime I lost myself and come right round up this road)
zero of (a sitting _ hens)
otiose of ® on (he used to mind on me = he used to look after me; then we used to have a job putting of them in the coops and feeding on them = then we used to have a job putting them in the coops and feeding them; otiose of (it used to be my job taking of them off = it used to be my job taking them off; then we used to have a job putting of them in the coops = then we used to have a job putting them in the coops)
relative pronoun ® what (I had this here pepper what I used to put on the eggs)
of + pronoun ® on (we got tired on it)
preterite done (that’s all we done) | 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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