LL-L "Holidays" 2004.09.21 (04) [E]

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From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Holidays

A bit more from Sidney Grapes in his version of Norfolk dialect, September
1949. It picks up the idea of beer as food: the farmworkers don't get enough
calories to enable them to work at their old rate.

'I recon yow wonder where I ha' bin a gitten tew. Well, we ha' only just
finished harvest. We had to hull ourselves bodily intew it to finish a' the
Thursday nite.

'Granfar he lent a hand, he led the hoss an halered "Howjah". Granfar say
"Wi' orl these new pearks to help em they dornt git the corn up so quick as
we use tew. Aunt Agatha she say "Yow must remember, Granfar, yow uster have
pork an onion dumplins nearly every day. Nowadays about orl they git is spam
an jam sandwiches, and no home brewed beer."

'Our marster (he's one of the good old sorts) gan us a rare good du a' tha'
Saturday nite, wot he called a "Harvest Home". We cleared out one ind o' the
oul barn, white warshed her, an the wiman they decorated it wi' flowers an
flags.'

Of course by the end of the evening they're all a bit drunk and somebody
falls over the "troshall" (= threshold) of the barn.

recon = reckon. I found when I went to the US that Americans thought that
only cowboys talked like this.
where I ha' bin a gitten tew = where I've been = what I've been up to
hull = hurl, but sometimes = haul, fetch
halered = hollered
pearks ? May be a misprint for "fearks" but I take to mean "gadgets"
uster = used to
rare good du = very good celebration
ind = end
white warshed = whitewashed

I've been wondering whether "John Barleycorn" is really "the spirit of the
field". The references in the song Ron quoted are obviously to the barley
itself. A strong beer made from barley is called "barley wine".

BTW I see in Chambers that "harvest moon" is only attested from 1706. Does
the equivalent term exist in other LL languages and is it older there?

Fare yow well together.

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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