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Description: | Harry recalls the horrendous flash floods that devastated large parts of Exmoor in 1952. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion. The River Barle flows east-west through Withypool and Lynmouth is a coastal town to the northwest of Withypool.
lexis
hayrick = haystack; a-four = four; cause = because;
phonology
H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (hour [haU@`], eight [hEIt], and it went on [hAn] like it); rhoticity
MOUTH [9Y]; PRICE [aI ~ {I]; GOOSE [Y:]; GOAT [o:]; NORTH [O`:]; START [A`:]; NURSE [@`;]; FOOT [Y]; LOT [A]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also half past [a: pa:s], little [lId=L/], so quick [s@ kwIk], years [j@`;z], knew [nY:], can’t [ka:nt], it [@t], washed [w{:St], rather [ra:D@`], it was [tw@z], Beryl [b@r/=L/], terrible [t@r/b=L/], pretty [pr/Idi], safe [sE@f], meadOWs [mEd@z] and started [stA`:dId]
grammar
multiple negation (we didn’t know nothing about it until we went to bed; nothing to speak nothing of; never knew no water; the water hadn’t done nothing; couldn’t see nothing wrong in the yard; I still couldn’t cross the bridge nor no nothing; I couldn’t do nothing about it; nothing couldn’t’ve stopped it)
first person plural was (we was up until about half past two, three o’clock); third person plural was (things was getting quieter; all the things that I’d known all my life was gone; farm buildings, two hayricks and a farmyard was all gone where the big cut-through had a-been with the water; our troubles was small)
adjective as adverb (the water was, sort of, not coming quite so quick; the water was coming very slow)
for + infinitive (no rain for make me think that anything out of the ordinary was happening)
past participle ran (it would’ve ran through the house and filled up all the rooms)
feminine subject pronoun ® her (she can come down and carry on bailing if her had to); third person plural object pronoun ® they (there was another stream cutting they off)
to be + past participle (it was more or less stopped = it had more or less stopped; all the things that I’d known all my life was gone = all the things that I’d known all my life had gone; I believe Withypool bridge is gone = Withypool bridge has gone; you can go down and see whether those bullocks are a-gone = whether those bullocks have gone; it was gone back to what it had a-been = it had gone back to what it had been; farm buildings, two hayricks and a farmyard was all gone where the big cut-through had a-been with the water = farm buildings, two hayricks and a farmyard had all gone; all the hedges what’d been up for at least two hundred year were all gone = all the hedges (…) had all gone)
third person singular have (I don’t know whatever have happened)
+ past participle (you can go down and see whether those bullocks are a-gone; it was gone back to what it had a-been; farm buildings, two hayricks and a farmyard was all gone where the big cut-through had a-been with the water; they’d a-crawled up on the hedge; they’d a-got up on that hedge and there they’d a-stood)
past participle comed (everywhere where water’d never comed out before was pouring out water)
relative pronoun ® what (all the hedges what’d been up for at least two hundred year were all gone)
zero plural marker on noun (at least two hundred year)
note the construction unless I’d got a horse I should never get through it = I would never get through it | 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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