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Dialect recording in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire

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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Dialect recording in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire
  • Description:

    [Side 1] Male speaker talks about playing marbles, mentions 'taw' [= large marble], describes ring game, discusses types of marbles, recalls using ginger beer bottles to make own marbles, tells anecdote about mother chasing away local boy who had reputation for pinching marbles, talks about keeping 'pullets' [= chickens] and incident with fox. [Side 2] Male speaker tells anecdote about local farmer considered very particular, recalls several pranks played by farm wprkers incl. e.g. cutting holes in ladder, brief discussion of local gypsum.

  • Date range: Sep 1957
  • Date: 1957
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 21:13
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 21:14