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Description: | Mrs. Newman briefly describes the apparatus used for cooking over the fire, then talks about chimney sweeps and mentions the village blacksmith. She also describes some of the jobs she did on the farm when the men were away at war. The original recording appears to have been paused on three occasions. Wolvercote is just to the east of Eynsham on the outskirts of Oxford.
lexis
topping = extremely good, exceptional; tatie = potato; greens = vegetables; court = to go out with, date; cause = because; mare = female horse; foal = young horse
phonology
occasional rhoticity
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI]; START [A`: ~ a`:]; BATH [a: ~ A:]; STRUT [V]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]
note also across [@kr/O:s], here [I@`] and there [DE@`], room [r/}:m], once [w@ns], with [wI], calves [ka:vz], (be)cause [k@s], war [wO`:], mares [mE@`z], us [Vs], girls [g@`:L/z]
grammar
third person plural was (your greens was nice and greasy; your potatoes was nicely cooked); second person singular be (you be doing well)
verbal inflection with plural noun (then in goes your greens)
preterite done (that’s where I done my courting; I should think we done it for about twelve months)
multiple negation (I don’t want no more to be doing with you)
preterite come (he come in to see me milking these cows)
relative pronoun ® as (the farmer was a man as liked his drop of drink)
(to see to these mares a-foaling; to see to these cows a-calving)
note the constructions I shall finish = I will finish | 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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