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Description: | Isaac recalls dredging a pit to recover the body of a man who had committed suicide after being pursued for a number of thefts. Great Yarmouth is a town on the Norfolk coast to the east of Shipdham and East Dereham is a town just to the northeast.
lexis
make off with oneself = to commit suicide (colloquial); hisself = himself; and all = too, also, as well; this here = this; cause = because; hae = to have; creeper = grapnel (hook used in fishing or for retrieving objects from water); plough-lines = reins of plough-horse; motor = car; hull = to throw; cop = to catch; rum = strange, peculiar
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (look [lU?k] at this here pit) and of /p/ (shepherd [SE?p@d] and creepers [kr/i:?p@z])
PRICE [VI]; MOUTH [EU ~ @u]; START [a:]; GOAT [@U ~ 6U]; TRAP [{]; BATH [{:]; STRUT [V]; LOT [A]
note also off [O:f], horse [hA:s], perhaps [pr/{ps], matter [m{?@], get [gIt], you [j@U], can’t [ka:nt], hunting [hVn?@n], (be)cause [kOs], cutting [kV?=n], motor [m@U?@], water [wO:?@], netting [nE?=n], after [{:?@], (a hand hammer) out of a [EU?@r/@] (what’s-its-name shop), sitting [sI?@n] and getting [gE?@n]
grammar
zero to + place-name (he sent me _ Yarmouth)
inclusion of subject in imperative (he said, “Get you up!”)
preterite say (shepherd, he say, we can’t find him; well, he say, we must hae to get him out)
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (he ain’t there nowhere; he ain’t in there)
multiple negation (he ain’t there nowhere; so there weren’t no getting away from it)
zero finite verb (there _ his hat)
otiose of ® on (I kept hulling on it about = I kept hulling it about; I kept throwing on it about = I kept throwing it about)
preposition, with ® along of (I was sitting there getting my dinner along of my wife)
preterite see (presently I see two policemen go past the window)
relative pronoun ® what (this here hammer what this man had got, had got this here man’s initials on) | 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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