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Description: | Henry talks about traditional ploughing and mowing by hand. He also recalls his mother baking in a brick oven. The original recording appears to have been paused on a number of occasions.
lexis
nowaday = nowadays; aye = yes; ridge = raised strips in ploughed field; leasing = gleaning (gathering corn left in field after harvest has been completed); bushel = imperial measure of capacity used for corn (equal to four pecks); faggot = bundle of sticks used as fuel
phonology
H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (other hVD@`], acre [he:Ik@`] and ashes [hASIz]); rhoticity; + V ® [d]; ® ([furrow [vV`r/ou ~ vV`r/@] and for [v@`])
MOUTH [{U ~ @U]; PRICE [VI]; FACE [e:I]; GOAT [ou]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`: > A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; NEAR [I@`]; LOT [A]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also seen [sIn], ridge [r/VdZ], bottom [bAd@m], carter [kA`:d@`], grass-cutter [gr/a:skVd@`], don’t them? [dVn @m], little [lId=L/], carry [ka`:r/] and put [pVt]
grammar
periphrastic do (that did save the carter boy = that saved the carter boy; the carter did have the three horses = the carter had the three horses; they did carry it to the mill = they carried it to the mill)
for + infinitive (two horses for start with)
preterite come (then the binders come in and they used to have three horses; the house I lived in before I come in this one)
third person plural subject pronoun ® them (they have a hook then, don’t them?)
determiner, those ® them (in them days; two of them, you know, brick ovens)
relative pronoun ® what (there’s one over here what, well, you know, used to be a bake-house for up this way) | 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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