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Description: | David talks about the annual harvest hawkey and describes the old mill. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. The Fox is a public house in Garboldisham.
lexis
harvest hawkey = feast held after harvest has been completed; bait = food, snack; largesse = money given to harvest workers as thanks by landowner; bob = shilling (colloquial); meal = bran (husk of wheat or other grain after flour has been separated by grinding); cause = because; tempest = violent thunder-storm; chop = change direction (of wind); afront = in front of; bushel = basket for carrying feed to horses; copper = coins, loose change
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (baker [be:?k@]) and of /p/ (dumplings [dVm?pl@nz], shopkeeper [SQ?pki:?p@], sympathise [sIm?p@TVIz], tempest [tEm?p@st] and coppers [kQ?p@z])
GOAT [oU ~ 6U]; MOUTH [Eu]; PRICE [VI]; FACE [{I > e:]; START [a:]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [V]; TRAP [{]; happY [I ~ e]
® [dI ~ de]
note also get [gIt], tomorrow afternoon [?@mQr/@ a:?@nUn], us [Vs], half past [ha: pa:s], one [wOn ~ wVn], roast [r/Ust], legs [lIgz], follOWing [fQl@r/In], morning [mO:n@n], something [sVmT@n], (be)cause [k@z], certainly [s@:?@nlI], floodED [flVd@d], always [A:l@z] and off [O:f]
grammar
preterite come (especially if it come on Friday; the wind chop, the storm come from here; off come two sails; the first year he come with two bushels of coppers)
multiple negation (so then you wouldn’t see us no more before Monday; they never see nobody fight)
preterite see (they never see nobody fight)
(used to have the old accordion a-playing)
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (the village life ain’t [e:nt] what it was then)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (the village life ain’t [e:nt] what it was then; that’s no good saying that is, cause that ain’t [e:nt])
preterite chop (the wind chop, the storm come from here)
zero plural marker on noun (fourteen pound) | 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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