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Description: | Dave talks about his early appearances on the local jazz circuit in the 1950s. Colerne (to the northeast of Bath) and Yatesbury (to the east) are villages and Odd Down (to the south) and Bathampton (to the northeast) are areas of the city of Bath. Gestetner refers to the brand name of a forerunner of the modern photocopying machine. The first stencil duplicator was invented in 1881 by David Gestetner and as the business grew a factory was established in Tottenham in London before moving in the 1970s to Wellingborough in Northamptonshire where production still continues today. NAAFI (The Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes) refers to the organization that has run canteens and stores on British military bases since 1921.
lexis
swing = type of big dance-band jazz music with flowing but strongly compelling rhythm; twelve-bar blues = twelve-bar melody of mournful, haunting character; pictures = cinema
phonology
rhoticity
NURSE [@`:]; NORTH [O`:]; START [A`:]; PRICE [aI ~ VI]; MOUTH [{U]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also started [stA`:dId ~ stA`:tid], because [bIk@s], 1949 [nVInti:nfO`:dInVIn], one [wOn], theatre [TiEt@`], half [ha:f] and half past [a: pa:st], years [jI@`z], Saturdays [sad@`:diz], pretty [pr/Idi], quarter [kwO`:d@`] and can’t [ka:nt]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was no lights in shop windows) | 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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