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Description: | Arthur describes the Roman road that passes near Merriott and recalls an old lady who used to live on it who terrorised passers-by. He goes on to describe the cow-shed. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. Yeovil is a town to the northeast of Merriott.
lexis
tother = other; oh ah = yes; nigh = nearly; haul = to pull, drag; culvert = channel conveying stream of water beneath road; hawk = to peddle goods; cause = because; thick = that; standing = stall in cow-shed; gulley = drain in cow-shed; afore = before
phonology
rhoticity; occasionally ® [v] (for [v@`:], fetching [vEtsIn] and four [vO`:]) and ® (something to say [zVmTIN t@ zeI]) and voiceless ® [d] (through [dr/u:] and three [dr/i:]) or ® [D] (thing [DIN])
MOUTH [{U ~ EU]; PRICE [@I]; THOUGHT [Q:]; GOAT [oU ~ o:]; NURSE [@`:]; START [a`:]; NORTH [O`:]; BATH [a:]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]
note also go [gu:] and going [gwaIn], it is [tIz] and it isn’t [tId=n], over [A:v@`], here [I@`], ruts [r/{Uts], week [wIk], years [j@`:z] old woman [woUL/ Um@n], there [DE@`], after [a:d@`], by [bI], Tuesday [tu:zdi], this [DI@s], clean [klI@n], kept [kIpt], (be)cause [kAz], can’t [k{:nt] and wash [wAIS]
grammar
gender assigned to it (him (= road) go right through the tother side _ the lane)
masculine subject pronoun ® him (him go right through the tother side the lane; him comed up this way a couple of times by a load of hay; him can’t sort of go down in it like they used to); masculine subject pronoun ® her (when her come back, old Molly had a-pulled the culvert up); masculine object pronoun ® hine (it isn’t comfortable for hine lie down; all his droppings mind’ll go down behind hine); feminine subject pronoun ® her (her would want to chop your bloody head off, her’d say; then her come out after another by a rake); neuter object pronoun ® hine (instead of him fetching the policeman for her and making her put hine back in)
uninflected third person singular verb (him go right through the tother side the lane; oh ah, this go right to Yeovil there; that grow a lot of rush)
zero of (him go right through the tother side _ the lane)
zero indefinite article (it is _ proper nice road); zero definite article (the cow stalls were all just ordinary floor at _ back)
proper as intensifier (it is proper nice road)
past participle growed (in another place it is all growed over)
periphrastic do (you’d be surprised who do come through here = you’d be surprised who comes through here)
zero plural marker on nouns (back a few year ago; that grow a lot of rush; Uncle Bob used to cut they rush)
preterite done (we done a lot of work down here)
relative pronoun ® what (old woman what used to live there)
preposition, with ® by (used to come out by a hook; then her come out after another by a rake; him comed up this way a couple of times by a load of hay; the cow stalls were all just ordinary floor at back, see, by the gulley behind)
preterite come (then her come out after another by a rake; when her come back, old Molly had a-pulle | 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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