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Description: | Anna describes how she regularly used to cycle twenty miles a day to work or to visit family. Fundenhall (just to the southeast of Ashwellthorpe), Stoke Holy Cross and Swainsthorpe (both to the northeast) are all nearby villages. Norwich is a city to the northeast.
lexis
again ~ against = next to, beside; bloater = dry-salted, cured herring; fowls = hens; hine = him, it; plunk = sound of heavy blow
phonology
T-glottaling; to + infinitive ® [?@] (fish for him [?@] sell)
GOAT [oU > 6U]; MOUTH [Eu]; FACE [{I]; PRICE [VI]; START [a:]; LOT [A]; TRAP [{]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [@]; happY [I ~@]
® [dI]
note also twenty [twEn?@], wasn’t [wAnt], Walter [wAL/?@], one [w@n ~ wOn] and once [w@ns] and none [n@n], fountain [fEun?=n], off [O:f], first [f@st], morning [mO:n@n], wouldn’t [wUn?], secretary [sEk@tE@r/I], bloaters [bl6U?@z], markET [ma:k@t], nephew [nEfu:], rather [r/a:D@], had to [ha?@], want to [wAn?@], into [In?@], little [lI?=L/] and onto [An?@]
grammar
zero plural marker on nouns (over twenty year; ten mile; how many mile is that?)
there was + plural complement (there wasn’t the lorries and all that about then; there was some fowls on that corner)
preterite done (when the strike was on – that was what done it)
multiple negation (none of the farmers wouldn’t employ him)
infinitive for present participle (I had a nephew live at Stoke Hall = I had a nephew living at Stoke Hall)
preterite come (I went and I come home all right)
(I went to a place a-washing)
neuter object pronoun ® hine (I had to take the chair and stand hine against the line)
preterite give (I got on and give him a push)
gender assigned to it (I got on and gave him (= bike) a push)
note the construction I shall be all right = I’ll be all right | 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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