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Description: | Amos describes a number of early bicycles and recalls having to travel in adverse weather conditions. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. Kimpton is a village just to the west of Codicote and Luton a town to the northwest.
lexis
naught = nothing; about here = around here; recollect = to remember; penny-farthing = early form of bicycle with large front wheel and small rear one; this here = this; tandem = early form of three-wheeled bicycle; van = covered horse-drawn vehicle chiefly employed for conveyance of goods; meal = finer part of ground grain
phonology
H-dropping; T-glottaling; L-vocalisation
PRICE [AI ~ VI]; MOUTH [EU]; START [a: ~ A:]
note also naught [naUT], nothing [nVTINK], tall ones [tO:l @nz], one [w@n], because [bIkO:s], us [Vs], cushion [kVSIn], Luton [lIu:?=n], off [O:f] and perhaps [pr/aps]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was no buses)
multiple negation (nobody’d got no bikes in my young days; three months and they ain’t done nothing on the land)
relative pronoun ® as (first old bike as I can recollect was old Amos Bates’s); ® what (then they got these what you got now)
determiner, those ® them (and then them old penny farthings)
third person plural was (they was brought up together)
preterite come (he come away from his brother because they couldn’t get on; he come and lodged with us; they come out like a chisel; then the snow come)
zero auxiliary (then they got these what you _ got now)
adjective as adverb (so they cut out nice)
past participle wore (when they got wore down)
past participle froze (you could take them off and they’d stand upright – froze)
third person plural have + negative particle ® ain’t (three months and they ain’t done nothing on the land)
note the construction they used to screw these things in here (…) so they shouldn’t slip = so they wouldn’t slip | 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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