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Survey of English Dialects recording in Tuddenham, Suffolk

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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Tuddenham, Suffolk
  • Description:

    [Side 1] Bill tells anecdote about elephant escaping from local zoo, talks about 'clipping' [= shearing] season (May to June), recalls regularly clipping 40 sheep a day and 1,000 sheep in a season, initially learnt from father aged 14, compares wages now and in past, briefly discusses lambing season (January to March), recalls often staying up all night and wife bringing out supper and breakfast, describes occasion during World War One when no lights were allowed at night and being startled by unusual noise. [Side 2] Bill continues to tell anecdote about lambing during World War One when no lights were allowed at night and hearing unusual noise, recalls being convinced it was the devil but discovering it was soldiers' horses that had got loose, discusses lambing at night, explains custom of persuading ewe to accept orphan lamb by disguising it in skin of own lamb, recalls severe winters in past.

  • Date range: Sep 1959
  • Date: 1959
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 18:14
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 18:15