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Description: | Jim talks about the constant threat of flooding. He recalls a number of floods and attempts to deal with them. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions.
lexis
afore = before; stank = dam to hold back water; atop = on top of
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; + V ® [d]
STRUT [U]; LOT [A]; THOUGHT [A:]; NORTH [a`:]; FACE [{i > e:]; MOUTH [@u]; GOAT [o:U]; NURSE [@`:]; PRICE [@I]; lettER [@`]
note also first [fUst], upstairs [UpstEI@`z], there [D@`:] and here [j@`:], oats [wo:Uts], handkerchief [aNkS@`], coalhouse [ko:UL/@s], years [j@`:z], weeks [wIks], perhaps [pr/aps], us [Uz ~ Us], blow [blA:@], garden [gj{`:d@n], once [wUns] and one [wOn], father [f{:D@`], fortnight [fa`:tnIt] and bacon [be:?k=n]
grammar
preterite come (when the flood come in; you stopped up there and they come along with the oats; sometimes they come in house about six inches; before this flood come in; one Christmas Eve it come in about six inches)
zero to + infinitive (first thing you had _ do was get all your stuff upstairs)
zero of (put it up in a bundle _ handkerchief to you)
zero definite article (sometimes they come in _ house about six inches)
there is + plural complement (there’s some fellahs have been in it all their life)
zero relative pronoun (there’s some fellahs _ have been in it all their life)
of + pronoun ® on (they won’t come out on it; forty or fifty on us; a lot on them have fell in it; four or five on us)
past participle fell (a lot of them have fell in it)
preterite drunk (he stopped in there and drunk this cider)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers see [si:] and look [lUk] | 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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