Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D45
Site Location(s): Subject - Rothbury, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.3106, -1.90845 )
Date(s): 14 Mar 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 15 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 25 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726821
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Billy and John explain local farming terms incl. e.g. 'hog' [= one-year-old female sheep], 'gimmer' [= two-year-old female sheep], 'tup' [ = male sheep], discuss reduction in price of wool, recall local characters and farm hands, discuss local terms incl. e.g. 'bargham' [= horse collar], 'hirsel' [= flock of hill sheep], 'bondager' [= indentured female farm hand]. [Side 2] Billy and John talk about farming year, incl. muck-spreading, lambing, recent wet winter, local fox problem, decline in rabbit numbers, 'scab' [= mange-like disease in sheep/cattle], explain local farming terms incl. e.g. 'beast' [= cattle], 'stirk' [= young cow], 'quey' [= cow prior to first calf].
Biography or history
Billy & John b. Rothbury.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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Downloadable text transcriptions (where available) are reproduced with permission from Juhani Klemola and Mark Jones. ©All Rights Reserved.
Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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