Dialect recording in Tideswell, Derbyshire

Description

[Side 1] David briefly talks about prize cock, tells anecdote about local farmer who played practical joke on pig-killer at 'supping time' [= drinking time] by putting 'jollop' [= cock's wattle] in his drink. [Side 2] David tells anecdote about local farmer finding pig thrown on 'muck midden' [= dung heap] presumed dead but still alive, farmer called butcher to kill pig, recalls own father's horror at subsequently eating pork from same pig.

Metadata

Identifier d5674hy8
IRN 726913
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D148
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/d5674hy8
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley
Date 23 Aug 1952
Size and Medium [Side 1] 02 min. 38 sec., [Side 2] 03 min. 22 sec.

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