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Description: | Shara talks about her scooter. Stockton (just to the west of Middlesbrough) and Hartlepool (to the north) are nearby towns. Honda refers to the Japanese motorcycle and car manufacturer founded by Soichira Honda in 1948. Mitsubishi refers to a Japanese car manufacturer that has been manufacturing several versions of their small hatchback, the Colt since 1978.
lexis
cause = because
phonology
+ V ® [r/]
H-dropping; T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /p/ (cheaper [tSi:?p@])
GOAT [o:]; FACE [E:]; START [a:]; PRICE [a:]; NORTH [Q:]; NURSE [E:]; GOOSE [Uu:]
note also scooter [skUu:?@], credIT [kr/Ed@t], hundred-and-forty-four [Undr/@d@nfO:?ifO:], year [jE:], insurance [InSu:r/@ns], once [wQns] and one [wQn], waiting [wE:?In], (be)cause [k@z], with [wI], twenty [twEn?i], about [@b@u:t], petrol [pE?r/@l], better [bE?@], minUTEs [mIn@ts], sure [Su@], waterproofs [wQ:?@pr/Uu:fs] and puttING [pU?@n]
grammar
zero plural marker on nouns (two hundred mile to three pound; fifteen pound for the road tax; eighty-five pound; 178 mile)
dead as intensifier (it’s dead good)
on + general time phrase (I have to be at work quite early on a morning; it was quite cold on a morning)
past participle took (if I’d’ve took it, I think it was, about three weeks beforehand)
multiple negation (don’t go nowhere else)
past participle drove (I’ve drove to Hartlepool on it) | 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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