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Description: | John talks about the amount of cider drunk by farm workers and recalls the wages when he first started work. The original recording appears to have been paused on a number of occasions.
lexis
daresay = to venture to say, assert; pommey = pulp of ground apples used in cider making; mind = to remember
phonology
occasional H-dropping; rhoticity; ® [v] (for [v@`:], from [vr@m] and before [bIvO`:]) and ® [z] (scythes [zVIDz])
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [VI]; GOAT [o:]; PALM [a:]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`: ~ A`:]; SQUARE [E@`]; LOT [A]; lettER [@`]
note also it is [tIz], better [bEd@`], so much [s@ mVtS], work [w@`:k], go [gu:], by [bI], Saturday [sad@`di], hay [haI ~ hEI], one [wUn], after [a:ft@`], years [j@`:z], wouldn’t [Ud=n], beer [bI@`], gallons [galInz] and it wasn’t [twAd=n]
grammar
first person plural was (we was happy in them days); third person plural was (people was more contented years ago)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
periphrastic do (they did soon get off on their head = they soon got off their head; not the cider that you do buy from the brewers and that = not the cider that you buy from the brewers; I do mind before there was any reins for to drive them = I remember before there were any reins)
preposition, off + pronoun ® off on (they did soon get off on their head)
for + infinitive (they had a mill, see, for grind down the apples); for to + infinitive (they had, like a press, see, for to press it down; I’ve had enough for to make me lie down; I do mind before there was any reins for to drive them, for the carter, we’ll say for to drive them)
multiple negation (some years you didn’t, you wouldn’t get any hardly; he never had no more than three shillings a day)
preposition, with ® by (they drive the horses by reins now)
there was + plural complement (I do mind before there was any reins for to drive them)
negative as emphatic positive (very often it wasn’t only about two; they didn’t get only about ten shillings)
of + pronoun ® on (now today I suppose they wouldn’t cut a quarter on it)
third person singular have (I know he’ve been dead some years)
zero for + general time phrase (I know he’ve been dead _ some years) | 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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