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Description: | Harry talks about growing up in Martinscroft when it was still a village outside Warrington in the 1930s. He describes his first home and recalls his schooldays. Rixton is a village just to the east of Martinscroft and Woolston an area of Warrington just to the northwest of Martinscroft. Irlam is a nearby town to the northeast.
lexis
any road = anyway; clot = fool, simpleton; cause = because; aye = yes
phonology
H-dropping; very occasional rhoticity
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [@Y > }Y]; PRICE [a:I]; START [a:]; NORTH [Q:]; CHOICE [QI]; NURSE [@: > @`:]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; lettER [@ > @`]; happY [I]
® [u:k]
note also windOW [wInd@], one [wQn] and none [nQn], (be)cause [bIkUz ~ kUs], they [DI], aunt [ant], us [Uz], school [sk}:L/] and half [a:f]
grammar
adjective as adverb (most of the people sort of worked local round that village)
there was + plural complement (there was farmers and there was men that looked after the weir; there was peat cutters that lived in the village; there was houses put up to house the railway workers)
zero plural marker on nouns (six, seven foot high)
have as full verb (it had a flag roof; I’ve two brothers and a sister)
first person plural was (when we was kids; if we was out of favour)
relative pronoun ® as (do you know any children, like, of that age as can say they enjoyed school?)
complementiser, that ® as (I can’t say as I really enjoyed my junior school) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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