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Description: | Jack relates an amusing anecdote concerning two prize turnips. Confident that the farmer who claimed to have grown them had in fact not produced the turnips in question, Jack describes how he felt no guilt in subsequently cheating in order to win the pub sweepstake for guessing the circumference of the turnips.
The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion. Ovington is a village to the northwest of Melsonby.
lexis
frae = from; aye = yes; ya ~ yan = one; road = way; hame = home; gan = to go; thysell = yourself; lake = to play; ald = old; this here = this; great = big, large; light on = to meet; nobbut = only; twig = to catch sight of; tother = the other; nae = no; siche = such; land = to arrive; nigh = near; naebody = nobody; mysell = myself; somewhat = something; brass = money; bob = shilling; frankie = stranger, non-local; naught = nothing; cause = because
phonology
definite article ® [t]; H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (open [hQp@n])
FACE [E:]; FLEECE [@I]; MOUTH [@u:]; PRICE [AI]; START [a:]; GOAT [o:]; NURSE [@]; happY [I]
® [wa]; ® [EI]; ® [a:d > O:d]; [OnI]; ® [@]
note also isn’t it? [InIt], enough [@nIUf], afternoon [aft@nI@n], quarry [kwar/I], work [wE@k], making [makIn], our [aU@], hame [jam], clothes [klE@Dz], washed [wESt], with [wIv ~ wIn], have [Ev] and has [Ez], after [Eft@], Saturday [sEt@d@], know [nA:], great [g@t ~ gr/@t], made [mEd], takes [taks], over [aU@], soul [saUl], table [tjEb=l], telled [tElt], either [i:D@], who [wI@], ready [r/IdI], none [nI@n], door [d@U@], book [bju:k ~ bIUk], name [ne@m], godfather [gQdfaD@], do [dI@], back [bQk], own [a:n], bloke [blQk], naught [naUt], beer [b@I@], burst [bUst], open [hQp@n], head [@Id], yesterday [j@st@dI] and (be)cause [kQs]
grammar
zero definite article (we were at _ quarry; William Robinson _ butcher)
verbal inflection with I (I says; I gets; I goes; I gans; I takes; I thinks; I puts; I orders; I looks; I reaches ; I measures; I dodges; I doesn’t guess; I comes); with plural pronoun (we goes; we gets; they borrows)
use of thou and thy (what’s thou say?; thou stop thysell at hame – lake with thy toys; thou’s just in time, Jack; I think thou’ll have naught of the sort; if thou can’t sup beer; thou gets naught; is thou sure thou doesn’t want a bottle of champagne; thou art the biggest rogue in the parish; thou art a bigger rogue than me; thou pinched the turnips)
zero of (we had a bit _ lad)
zero plural marker on noun (two year; twelve bob)
reflexive stop (thou stop thysell at hame)
at + general time phrase (at Friday afternoon; at Saturday afternoon)
complementiser, that ® as (we made arrangements as he would call at Old (?) Snaleham’s; he telled me as he’d be)
preterite telled (he telled me as he’d be)
preterite gat (when I gat in the pub, there wasn’t a soul in)
have as full verb (she had yan of these baskets; Mrs. (?) Snaleham has a tape measure)
third person plural has (she had yan of these baskets, you know, as women has; he hasn’t a turnip on the farm)
there was + plural complement (there was two ald women; there was nae turnips in it; there was thirteen in; there was twelve and me)
determiner, those ® them (Tom Greene showing them turnips; guessing the girth of them two turnips)
of + 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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