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Description: | Barry talks about his interest as a young man in pigeon racing. Flixton, Urmston (both in the southwest) and Middleton and Langley (both in the northeast) are areas of Greater Manchester. Piccadilly refers to Piccadilly Gardens in the city centre. Sandringham (to the southwest) is a town in Norfolk. Andy Capp is a flat-cap wearing, stereotypically northern cartoon character created by Reg Smythe and first published in The Daily Mirror in 1957. English Heritage works in partnership with the government, local authorities, voluntary bodies and the private sector to conserve and enhance the historic environment. VC refers to the Victoria Cross: Britain’s highest award for gallantry, established after the Crimean War in 1857.
lexis
cause = because
phonology
H-dropping; T-glottaling; /r/ ® [4 ~ r/]
GOAT [QU]; MOUTH [au]; PRICE [a:I]; START [a:]; NORTH [Q:]; GOOSE [}:]; happY [I > E]
® [Ng]; ® [dI]
note also joined [dZQInd], take [tEk], (be)cause [bIk@z ~ k@s], with [wI], Sandringham [sandr/INg@m], year [jI:], nothing [nUTIn], one [wQn] and us [Uz]
grammar
relative pronoun ® what (it’s just something else what’s disappeared; the comradeship what goes into it; it’s just a hobby what you get a lot of satisfaction out of; cause of the messages what they carried)
zero plural marker on noun (about seven pound a pigeon)
determiner, those ® them (it’s one of them hobbies that really doesn’t offend anyone else)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ nQU] | 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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