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Description: | Charlie compares modern farming practices with those of his younger days.
lexis
nag = pony; bide = to stay; scrouch = to crouch; dray flock = sheep selected and set apart from main flock for fattening; hurdle = fence used to pen sheep
phonology
H-dropping; T-glottaling; rhoticity
MOUTH [@U]; PRICE [VI]; GOAT [o: ~ OU]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`: ~ A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also better [bE?@`], it was [tw@z], years [j@`:z], does [du:z], cutter [kV?@`], water [wO:?@`], always [O:l@z], half [a:f], laid [lEd] and with [wI]
grammar
adjective as adverb (I think it was done quicker years ago with horses than what it’s done today; I know the harvest work used to be done a lot quicker)
preposition, by ® with (I think it was done quicker years ago with horses than what it’s done today)
zero auxiliary (the cutter _ got to lay out; they _ got no straw; this man, I think he _ got a few)
third person plural was (years ago they was put into the workyard; the sheep was always on the land every day)
multiple negation (now you don’t see no sheep; now you don’t see no shepherds now)
there is + plural complement (there’s scarcely any farmers got any sheep)
zero relative clause (there’s scarcely any farmers _ got any sheep)
+ past participle (what few they have a-got, they run in the meadows)
past participle growed (there isn’t the corn growed you know, like there used to be years ago) | 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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