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Description: | Edward talks about the local wildlife and recalls the women being paid to collect stones from the fields for 1d a bushel. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion.
lexis
(mister) mouse-hunter = weasel; about here = around here; hock = joint in animal’s hind leg between knee and fetlock; again = next to, beside; bushel = imperial measurement of weight; bushel-skip = container used as bushel measure; aside = beside, alongside
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (darker [da:?k@], bloke [bloU?k], book [bU?k] about animals, black [bl{?k] as coal, looking [lU?k@n] and picking [pI?k@n]); also of /p/ (skip [skI?p] up, keeper [ki:?p@] and walk [wO:?k] about) and of /t/ (mouse-hunter [mEUshVn?t@] and bottom [bA?t@m])
MOUTH [EU]; GOAT [oU]; PRICE [VI]; START [a:]; LOT [A]; STRUT [V ~ U]; TRAP [{]
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note also Hampshire [h{mpSI@], bellY [bElE], often [Aft@n], weasel [wE:z=L/ ~ wi:z=L/], little [lI?=L/], half [ha:f], putting [pU?@n], startED [sta:?@d], off [O:f], dog [dO:g] and work [wak]
grammar
zero finite verb (that _ what we call a mouse-hunter about here; he _ chocolate colour)
there was + plural complement (there was some in Hampshire)
past participle catched (I have catched five or six in various stages of white and brown)
zero auxiliary (he _ got a little black tail)
zero plural marker on noun (a couple of year ago)
first person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (ain’t I told you about hine?)
third person masculine object pronoun ® hine (ain’t I told you about hine?)
preterite come (I was reading in a book about animals and I come across of it; he come out the hole and sat looking at me)
otiose of (I was reading in a book about animals and I come across of it = and I came across it)
(I was a-putting a snare down again the edge of the dyke)
out + zero of (he come out _ the hole)
of + pronoun ® on (walk about with a dog all day long and a gun running aside on you)
note the construction I should like to have a job like you have got = I would like to have a job like you’ve got | 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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