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Description: | Peter outlines a typical day on the shrimp nets in the 1960s and 70s, when traditional fishing methods were still practised. He explains the use of horse, cart and shank nets and the later development in using boats from Formby. He also describes the process of boiling and peeling the shrimps.
Great Burbo Bank is a large offshore sand bank in the Crosby channel north of Liverpool.
lexis
shank = type of shrimp net unique to Southport; wheres = where; backend = autumn
phonology
occasional H-dropping and hypercorrect [h]; occasional TH-fronting
START [a:]; PRICE [a:I ~ aI]; GOAT [o: ~ oU]; FACE [E: ~ EI]; NORTH [Q:]
note also where [w@:] and there [D@:], half [a:f] and half past [af past], one [wQn] and new [nu:]
grammar
zero plural marker on nouns (about five foot; two hour; ten pound; 150 pound; sixty pound; twenty foot; for five month)
zero for + time phrase (you’re fishing _ two hour)
zero auxiliary (you _ done your tide)
first person plural was (we was years moored in Formby); 2nd person plural was (you was up at half past one)
word order with time and place (we was years moored in Formby = we were moored in Formby for years) | 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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