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Description: | Tom remembers local girls being taught how to make Bedfordshire lace and recalls the traditional bakeries that used to exist in the village. One of the interviewer’s questions appears to have been inserted after the original recording.
lexis
about here = around here; learn = to teach; above = more than; week-a-day = weekdays; score = twenty (or multiple thereof); quartern-loaf = loaf made with 4lbs of flour; that there = that; faggot = bundle of sticks used as fuel
phonology
H-dropping; glottal reinforcement of /p/ (eight-pence [EI?p=ns] and nine-pence [nAIm?p=ns]) and of /t/ (plaiting [pla?tIn] and summertime [sVm@?tAIm], quartern [kwO:?t@n] and painter [pain?t@]); L-vocalisation (milking [mIokIn])
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [AI]
® [TINk]
note also Bedfordshire [bEdf@dSI@], across [@kr/O:s], girl [g{L/], Saturday [satdI], go [gu:] and one [wOn]
grammar
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (ain’t none of that done now about here; what is it now – 8d and 9d a pint, ain’t it?; now ain’t one on them used)
complementiser, that ® as (ain’t none of that done now about here as I know of)
zero auxiliary (I _ done milking above forty years)
zero for + time phrase (I done milking _ above forty years)
of + general time phrase (two or three hours in the middle of the day of a Sunday)
zero plural marker on noun (fifteen shilling a week)
comparative particle, than ® nor (things were a lot cheaper then nor they are now)
third person singular were (milk were only about three 8d a pint; when that oven were well hot; the furnace were at the side of the oven)
determiner, those ® them (in them old tins); ® them there (he’d buy all them there old bush faggots when that oven were well hot)
preterite throwed (it’s about time you old bakers collected your tins and throwed them down the rubbish heap)
preterite knowed (I knowed the time when they were all three in full swing)
of + pronoun ® on (now ain’t one on them used; some on them used to use coal; so’s the heat on it went round the oven, you see)
well as intensifier (well hot)
multiple negation (he’d sweep his oven floor (…) so there was nothing – dirt nor nothing in it)
complementiser, so that ® so as (so’s the heat on it went round the oven, you see, the furnace were at the side of the oven)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ nu: ~ j@ n@U] | 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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