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Description: | Brian talks about the uniqueness of growing up on St Philip’s Marsh, right in the heart of industrial Bristol. St Philip’s Marsh is an island in the centre of Bristol, bordered to the north by the Feeder Canal and to the south by the River Avon. Temple Meads (to the northwest), Barton Hill (to the northeast) and The Dings (on the island itself) are all nearby areas of Bristol.
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; T-glottaling
GOAT [ou]; PRICE [VI]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; NURSE [@`:]; SQUARE [E`:]; STRUT [V ~ @]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also one [w@n], everything [Evr/ITINk], little [lI?=L/], because [bIk@z], Albert [AL/b@`t], us [Vs] and although [@D@u]
grammar
preterite come (the uniqueness sort of come about, you know, later on when we did a show about it; first come the Feeder Canal; late 1800s come the Feeder Canal; then the industries come because of the canal, then the people come because of the industries)
there was + plural complement (there was ten boys in the family; there was ten of us living home; there was two bedrooms; you knew there was better houses; there was forty houses)
zero at (there was ten of us living _ home and they lived _ home for a long time after that) | 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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