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Description: | Bessie recalls the hive of industry that characterised several local towns in the 1930s. Oldham (to the east), Blackburn (to the north), Burnley (to the northeast), Bury (just to the east), Radcliffe (just to the southeast) and Heywood (to the east) are all nearby towns. Jacquard refers to a type of high quality fabric woven on a Jacquard mill (named after Joseph Marie Jacquard of Lyons, who, in the early 19th century, invented an apparatus to enable the weaving of figured fabrics in a loom).
lexis
naught = nothing; take a rise out of = to make a butt of, raise a laugh at
phonology
definite article ® [?] (front of the [@?] brewer’s wagon); occasional H-dropping; rhoticity; occasional T-glottaling; + V ® [r/]
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [VY]; PRICE [a:I] START [a:]; NORTH [O@`]; NURSE [@` ~ @`:]; SQUARE [@`:]; lettER [@`]; happY [I]
note also cotton [kQ?@n], and [Qn], one [wQn], Bury [b@r/I], derelict [d@r/@lIkt], unemployment [UnEmplOImEnt], very [v@r/I], factory [faktr/I], because [bIkQz], naught [nVYt], take [tEk] and wouldn’t [wUnt]
grammar
third person singular were (she were saying)
zero definite article (it’s _ wrong stuff)
zero to + infinitive (I wasn’t trying _ take a rise out of her)
there was + plural complement (there was breweries here) | 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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