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Description: | Frank talks about working conditions when he first started on the farm and recalls powdering hops through the night.
lexis
fore = before; five-and-twenty to seven = twenty-five to seven; bob =shilling (colloquial); haps = perhaps; bine = climbing stem of hop plant
phonology
H-dropping; occasional rhoticity
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI ~ AI]; CLOTH [O:]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also half past [a:f pa:st], perhaps [pr/aps], there [DE@`], summertime [sVm@`?tVIm] and go [gu:]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
preterite come (actually fore the tractors come about)
preterite drawed (I was actually sixteen, I think, sixteen when I first drawed my fourteen bob a week)
second person was (before you’d know it you was out) | 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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