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Description: | Mr Dyer describes traditional methods of harvesting and stacking. Puckeridge, Furneux Pelham, Brent Pelham (all to the southwest of Great Chesterford), Newport (to the south) and Thurlow (to the northeast) are all nearby villages. Newmarket (to the northeast) and Saffron Walden (just to the southeast) are nearby towns.
lexis
withe = several twigs twisted together and used for binding or tying corn; sheaf = large bundle of reaped crop; and all = too, also, as well; drag = two-pronged, long-handled dung fork
phonology
H-dropping; glottal reinforcement of /t/ (water [wO:?t@] and every other sort of [sO:?t@] stack)
PRICE [AI]; MOUTH [EU]; START [a:]; GOAT [6U]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [6]
note also can’t [ka:nt]
grammar
zero for + time phrase (oats had to stand _ three weeks)
third person plural was (especially when they was up the field; if they was in the stack they was dangerous) | 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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