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Description: | Jesse talks about working conditions and standards of living when he was a young farm hand. Taunton is a town to the west of Stoke St Gregory.
lexis
mind = to remember; bob = shilling (colloquial); ‘bacco = tobacco; hisself = himself; pictures = cinema; bide = to stay
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; ® [v] (for [v@` ~ vO`:], fifteen [vIfti:n], before [bIvO`:], fowl [vVUL/], feet [vi:t] and from [vr/Am]) and ® (same [ze:m], something [zVmTIn], say [zeI], somebody [zVmbAdi], see [zi:], Sunday [zVndi] myself [mIzEL/f], side [zVId] and sit up beside [zId Vp bIzVId]) and voiceless ® [d] (three [dr/i:] and through [dr/u:])
MOUTH [VU ~ @U]; PRICE [VI]; GOAT [o:]; FACE [e: ~ eI]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`: ~ A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; BATH [a:]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]
note also week [wIk], ‘bacco [bak@`], carter [ka`:d@`], it was [twOz], it is [tIz] and it will [twIL/], with [wI], always [AlwIz], boy [bUI], hear [j@`:], wouldn’t [Ud=n], years [j@`:z], ago [@gu:], Taunton [dA:nt=n], going [gwaIn], chapel [dZap=L/], tomorrOW [d@mAr/@], little [lId=L/] and corduroy [kA`:dIr/UI]
grammar
for + infinitive (for buy boots and food; ready waiting next door for go get it if somebody asked me); zero to + infinitive (if you was going to ask a boy _ do anything)
third person plural pronoun ® them (them went up to fifteen, he had the twelve); masculine object pronoun ® hine (you’d never hear hine say, “No thank you”); masculine subject pronoun ® her (he _ got more money for a week, hasn’t her?)
determiner, those ® they (they two had fifteen each; in they days; more money, they ten bob than you can buy with ten pound now)
third person singular were (Hard times! – Yeah, it were!; then they’d want to know what your business were); second person was (if you was going to ask a boy do anything); first person plural was (when we was boys I was up twenty-one year old before I had money)
third person plural be (I don’t think they be)
zero plural marker on nouns (ten pound; twenty-one year old)
preposition, with ® by (just the same by hay; that’s just the same by boys, like, see; just the same by pictures; just the same by going, like, same going in town to work)
preterite see (if they see a boy there along with you – a poor little devil – they knowed he hadn’t got nothing to him much)
preterite knowed (if they see a boy there along with you – a poor little devil – they knowed he hadn’t got nothing to him much)
use of ye (if you was going to ask a boy do anything for ye now, he’d drag his feet in and walk away from ye and turn around and look at ye and laugh at ye; he wouldn’t do it for ye; he wouldn’t think no more of ye)
zero to (you run down _ shop for me)
zero definite article (you run down _ shop for me)
multiple negation (he wouldn’t think no more of ye)
zero auxiliary (he _ got more money than what a man had then for three weeks
he _ got more money for a week hasn’t her?)
note the construction wherever you went to work to, there was your jar of cider = wherever you went to work and | 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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