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Description: | Benjamin describes harvesting, mowing and threshing before mechanisation and talks briefly about his work as a shepherd.
lexis
sheaf = bundle of corn after reaping; fore =before; bagging hook = billhook; heighth = height; bushel = imperial measure of capacity used for corn (equivalent to four pecks or eight gallons); dress = to winnow (expose grain or other substances to wind or to current of air so that lighter particles such as chaff are separated or blown away); chaff = husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing; kernel = grain of wheat or other cereal; off-corn = offal corn (corn not separated from chaff and thrown out in winnowing); thrash = to thresh; ail = awn of barley or corn; this here = this
phonology
H-dropping; TH-fronting; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (chickens [tSI?kInz] and back [b{?k] again); also of /p/ (reapers [r/i:?p@z], shepherd [SI?p@d] and chopper [tSQ?p@]) and of /t/ (better [bE?t@])
MOUTH [{U]; PRICE [AI]; CLOTH [O:]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [a]
note also go [gu:] and going [gUIn], wasn’t [wO:nt], kernels [kEn=L/z] and both [boUf]
grammar
preterite knowed (they knowed, you know)
there was + plural complement (there wasn’t the things they’ve got to help lift now)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (if that wasn’t thrashed properly you had to chop it)
relative pronoun ® what (that used to knock these ails off what the machine hadn’t)
adjective as adverb (it used to chop the ails off beautiful)
of + pronoun ® on (eighteen inches high some on them was)
third person plural was (eighteen inches high some on them was) | 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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