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Description: | Charlie describes how to build a stack and tells a couple of anecdotes about poaching. He also briefly mentions threshing by hand. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. Salisbury is a city to the northeast of Sixpenny Handley.
lexis
ah = yes; great = big, large; about here = around here; box-hat = tall, silk hat; a-thirteen = thirteen; cause= because; back along = a while ago; tother = the other; ne’er-a-one = no, none, not any; afore = before; thick = that; thrash = to thresh; threshel ~ frail = flail (implement used for threshing corn); mind = to remember; swivel = striking part of flail
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; + V ® [d]; ® [v] (for [vO`: ~ v@`:], frighten [vr/VIt=n], fourteen [vO`:di:n], frail [vr/eIL/] and old-fashioned [wo:L/vaS=n]); also ® [z] (scythe [zVIv], said [zEd], somebody [zVmbQdi], seed [zi:d], some [zVm] and swivel [zwIv=L/]) and voiceless ® [D] (a-thirteen [@D@`:di:n] and thing [DIN]) or ® [d] (thresh [dr/aIS], threshel [dr/aIS=L/] and through [dr/u:])
MOUTH [{U ~ @U]; PRICE [VI]; GOAT [o:]; PALM [a:]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`: ~ a`:]; NURSE [@`:]; LOT [A ~ Q]; lettER [@`]
note also by [bI], great [g@`:t], machinery [Si:n@r/i], better [bEd@`], oh ah [u: a:], it is [tIz], after [a:d@` > a:ft@`], wasn’t it? [wQd=n It], here [j@`:], old [wo:L/], hole [wo:L/], ne’er-a-one [n@`:n], don’t them? [dVn @m], beat [be@t] and way [waI]
grammar
preposition, with ® by (we used to mow the corn by a great scythe; I was there by a great high box-hat on; if a dog was running along here by a great hare in front on hine; I shot a fox once by a catapult; my mate, (?) Rip (?), on the top there by the gun; they used to thrash in the barn by the, one of they there threshels)
periphrastic do (they do break up more land now = they break up more land now; the leather do work in hine = the leather works in it)
of + pronoun ® on (three on us, no, two on us and me, you know, the three on us altogether)
relative pronoun ® what (the old fellah what had a good dog that catched rabbits)
preterite catched (the old fellah what had a good dog that catched rabbits; we catched a-thirteen or fourteen more)
masculine object pronoun ® hine (I said, “I’ll frighten hine – he’ll think it is the devil after hine”; I got up close to hine, I said, “Hoy, what are you doing about here this late hour?”; if a dog was running along here by a great hare in front on hine; my greyhound’d soon have hine then, though; I shot hine right in the hole; he went down like that and pulled hine out; I had a chap come in from Salisbury tother day and seed hine up there); ® he (I shot a blackbird out here back along and killed he; I had a chap come in from Salisbury tother day and seed hine up there and said, “Let’s have a look at he”); third person plural object pronoun | 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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