Title: Stanton Upon Hine Heath, Shropshire (cf. SED Prees) Shelfmark: C900/15006 Description: Richard talks about his family and working background. He describes his own career change from haulier to farmer, his mother’s smallholding and his father’s transition from blacksmith to farmer. There seems to be some interference on the original recording due to rain beating against a glass roof. Bedford is a British van and truck manufacturing company founded in 1931. Drayton refers to Market Drayton (to the northeast of Stanton Upon Hine Heath) and Salop refers to Shrewsbury (to the southwest) – both are Shropshire market towns. Shawbury (just to the southwest), Marchamley (to the north), Hinstock (to the east), High Ercall (to the south), Ellerdine (just to the southeast) and Waters Upton (to the southeast) are all villages nearby. Lexis: Salop = old Norman-derived name for Shropshire, used locally also to refer to Shrewsbury; afore = before; colt = young horse; clench = to secure nail in horseshoe; unclench = to loosen, remove nail from horseshoe Phonology: H-dropping; hypercorrect [h] (High Ercall [hA:k=L/]) I I MOUTH [{U ~ VU]; START [a:]; PRICE [A: ~ a: ]; GOAT [oU]; STRUT[U]; happY [I] <-day> [dI]; <-thing> ® [TINk] note also one [wQn], only [oUnI], school [sk}:L/], four [fO@], lorry [l@r/I], new [nu:], potatoes [p@tEIt@z], us [Vz], always [O:lwIz], bus [bUz] and perhaps [pr/aps] Grammar: zero plural marker on nouns (eighteen pound; seventy-five pound; fifty acre) determiner, those ® them (when I was required to do them jobs; them days) there was + plural complement (there was three in my family; there was four of them) relative pronoun ® as (the only outing she ever had as I remember; there was four of them as I remember) preterite give (he give it up and went farming) complementiser, so that ® as (you had to hold it as he could see where he was clenching the nails) Page 1 of 2 third person singular were (there were no electric light them days) Page 2 of 2 .