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Description: | Geoffrey recalls life during the Depression in the 1930s. Letchworth is a town to the southwest of Royston. The Jarrow March refers to the events of November 1st, 1936, when a party of 200 men marched 300 miles from Jarrow to London in protest at the miseries of unemployment and the injustice of the means test.
lexis
cause = because; court = to go out with, date; bob = shilling (colloquial)
phonology
occasional H-dropping; T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (where they used to smoke them [sm{U?k @m]) and of /p/ (couple [ka?p=L/] and carpenter [kA:?p@nt@])
START [a: > A:]; FACE [{I ~ aI]; PRICE [AI]; GOAT [@U ~ {U]; MOUTH [{@]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [a]
note also started [sta:?Id], last [la:st], little [lI?=L/ ~ lIto], (be)cause [bIk@z ~ k@z],
motor [m@U?@], courting [kO:U?In], notice [n{U?Is] and pretty [pr/I?i]
grammar
multiple negation (no-one’d got motor cars hardly)
there was + plural complement (there was only three thousand people living in the town at that time) | 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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