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Description: | George recalls his father threshing by hand and tells an anecdote about a horse that turned on a horseman. He also talks about ploughing before mechanisation. The original recording appears to have been paused on three occasions.
lexis
frail = flail (implement used for threshing by hand); cavings = short pieces of straw left after threshing; tween = between; chaff = husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing (used as dry mixed feed given to horses); colt = young horse; sieve = container used for carrying horse feed; this here – this; bever = snack taken in fields; baulk ~ ridge = raised part of ploughed field; rood = area of land (equivalent to ¼ acre); stetch = section of ploughed field equivalent to eight furrows
phonology
H-dropping; T-glottaling
GOAT [AU]; MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [AI]; FACE [{I]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [a]; BATH [A:]
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note also cattle [k{?=L/], little [lI?=L/], across [@kr/O:s], go [gU] and half past [haf pA:st]
grammar
preterite come (we come one morning; when he come after him; the third horseman, you know, he come in the middle and went round the stetches with his plough)
determiner, those ® them (in them old-fashioned stables they used to have a corn-bin)
zero plural marker on noun (about four foot long)
relative pronoun ® what (this here bit of thick wood, you see, what that was; he was a man what understood his job)
double subjunctive in conditional clause (if he’d’ve went in the stable to him, he’d’ve killed him = if he’d gone in the stable)
past participle went (if he’d’ve went in the stable to him, he’d’ve killed him)
multiple negation (they wouldn’t stand no nonsense)
third person plural was (if they was baulking they were supposed to do five roods)
(if you were a-doing that, you were supposed to do five roods) | 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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