_lacin'_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/58174

lacin FE When.when you were a youngster, the.the youngsters.you wouldn't sauce the /parents like some of the.the youngsters do today, eh? You were pretty obedient (then)? F. Not much (that).not much better! Not much better, sir! (AN' NOWADAYS?) they got no parents, youngsters haven't today. FE. Why how.? F. (That was it.??).(see) . THE YOUNGSTERS. FE. I suppose some cases, yes. . threaten the youngsters, years ago when you were a.growin' up? F. Oh yeah! They get it see! (ie get a good hiding etc). If they'd do anything at all out o' they way he had to get _the lacin'_ [_PT_] and that was IT. (Nowadays?) he's let off an' he knows it. That's what difference is into it. FE. What would you get _the lacin_ [_PT_] (with)? What WOULD they have, a stick or.? F. Oh, a stick or whatever he'd get hold to! Them old fellers was(n't) .wasn't particul- ar what they'd get hold to! FE. And wh(at).how would a pa(rent).xxx what would the parents threaten. ? F. Mostly always (have??) a stick, you know. Not .not a big stick for. now for to break bones. Mostly a small _stick_, a _WHIP?_ -- _WHIT?_ we calls [it] them times. . they done all that. FE. Would they tell you.? F. But they had to get _the lacin'_ [_PT_]. They had to get _the lacin'_ [_PT_] no odds-> what 'twas! That was it. .[NOW} THEY'RE LET ofF AN' they don't get _the lacin'_ _[PT]_ , and they're let off one time after th'other an' by an' by they get so bad they can't rule 'em. ((FE? Would they threaten them with such things OVER. [reverse] as the Boo-man? ??)) F. (I don't know!) I couldn't tell you that! .Yeah. I don't know what they used to say NOW (o'?) that, but I knows they had to get _the lacin'_ [_PT_] no odds which way she'd go: they had to get (TO THAT??)[-]the lacin'[PT][-], [FROM] _the mother_ /an' _the father_, both alike. Threats of physical punishment. etc. Yes 396 [check] J. WIDDOSON [reverse] J. WIDDOSON J. WIDDOSON Not used Not used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 02 Jun 2015; Reverse side at L_15204