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Description: | Arthur talks about calving and recalls a number of problematic births. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. Westoning is a village just to the north of Harlington.
lexis
cause = because; lay = to lie; bob-tail calf = calf born tail first; tother = other; else = otherwise, or else
phonology
H-dropping; T-glottaling; occasional rhoticity
FLEECE [@i]; PRICE [OI]; MOUTH [EU]; GOAT [VU]; NURSE [@`:]; START [a: ~ a`:]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also cattle [ka?=L/], calving [kA:vIn ~ ka:vIn], one [wOn], (be)cause [k@s], half [a:f], Saturday [sa?@`di], better [bE?@`], going [gUIn] and go [gu:], off [O:f], pretty [pr/I?i], got to [gQ?@], here [I@`], hold [VUL/?], today [?@dEI], hotter [Q?@`], twenty [twEn?I], Buckinghamshire [bVkIn@mSI@`] and little [lI?=L/]
grammar
adjective as adverb (I’ve had real bad jobs)
multiple negation (she’d been about it for several hours and didn’t show nothing)
verbal inflection with I (I says, “Hello – it’s a bob-tail calf”)
preterite come (then I come to reach it’s toes)
third person masculine object pronoun ® hine (lift hine like you do a sack of wheat)
preterite see (I see one broke once like that)
past participle broke (I see one broke once like that)
non-standard word order with ever (I know the first ones ever I did calve = the first ones I ever calved)
periphrastic do (I know the first ones ever I did calve)
third person singular were (my dad were there; that were my own experience; that were just the same)
note the construction he hadn’t used to have anything much to do with them = he didn’t used to have anything much to do with them. Note also the constructions I shall never calve that cow, uncle = I’ll never calve that cow and I shan’t calve her, not by Christmas = I won’t calve her | 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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