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Description: | Robert describes the workings of a patent mill and talks about his mother’s home made bread. Great Yarmouth is a town just to the northeast of Reedham.
lexis
worm = screw (thread of which gears with teeth of toothed wheel); fly-wheel = heavy-rimmed wheel attached to revolving shaft to regulate motion of machine; cap = movable upper storey of windmill; else = otherwise, or else; acrost = across; patent mill = windmill with automatically operated sails; cause = because; gripe = lashings formed by assemblage of ropes; afore = before; lash = to fasten, make fast with cord or rope; meal = bran (husk of wheat or other grain after flour has been separated by grinding); Welsh rabbit = dish of melted cheese on toast; brewer’s yeast ~ German yeast = soft or wet yeast; patent yeast = dry, hard, crumbly yeast; nigh = nearly; bloater = dry-salted, cured herring; kipper = smoked herring
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (bacon [b{I?k=n]); also of /p/ (cap [k{?p] of the mill, top [tA?p] of the mill, open [oU?p=n], up [V?p] onto the main arm, proper [pr/A?p@], kippers [kI?p@z] and newspaper [nu:zp{I?p@z ~ nu:zpe:?p@z]) and of /t/ (patent [pe:?t@nt], have to [a?t@] and bloaters [bl6U?t@z])
PRICE [VI ~ AI]; MOUTH [@u]; NURSE [6: > @:]; CLOTH [O:]; FACE [{I > e:]; GOAT [oU > 6U]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [V]; LOT [A]; happY [I]
® [dI]
note also get [gIt], little [lI?=L/], into [In?@], fast [fa:st], (be)cause [kOz], flour [flA:@], wasn’t [wAnt], once [wOns], Saturday [s{?@dI], morning [mO:n@n], rabbIT [r/{b@t], yeast [jIst], patent [p{I?=nt], first [fVst] and new [nu:]
grammar
gender assigned to it (she (=mill) got a worm up top; she (= mill) got fly-wheels; when she’s (= fly-wheel) the wrong way to the wind, the wind’ll pull that wheel round; that turn on the cog-wheel round the cap of the mill and swing her (= fly-wheel) round; else if she (= fly-wheel) get stuck and the wind get behind her)
zero auxiliary (she _ got a worm up top; she _ got fly-wheels; they _ got a weight on the chain)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (that turn on the cog-wheel round the cap of the mill; as that go round, that turn the other worm)
uninflected third person singular verb (that turn on the cog-wheel round the cap of the mill and swing her round; else if she get stuck and the wind get behind her; that blow the sails off; as that go round, that turn the other worm in the cog-wheel round the top of the mill just under the cap and swing the cap round; that work when the wheel work; as the wind blow them they lift the weights up; the stronger the wind blow, the higher they open … more open they go; that stop the mill)
zero plural marker on nouns (about four foot across; not sixty year ago, nor yet seventy year ago)
third person singular have (he have a gripe rope hanging down by the pole)
preterite come (German yeast was the proper name when it first come out)
relative pronoun ® what (the old girl what sold it; very nigh a new one, not one what’s wore off)
past participle wore (not one what’s wore off)
preterite want (she used to get some of what she want; the old books and what everybody want) | 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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