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Description: | Edwina recounts her experiences at the village school and after transferring to the secondary school in Pershore. She also talks about her first job at a furniture factory in Worcester. Pershore is a town just to the northeast of Defford and Worcester a city to the northwest. Oxo is a brand name referring to meat stock cubes - produced in the UK since 1910 after the process was first pioneered by the German chemist Justus Liebig (1803-1873).
phonology
occasional H-dropping; rhoticity
PRICE [Qi]; MOUTH [{U]; STRUT [U > V]; BATH [a > a:]; NURSE [@`:]; NORTH [O`:]; THOUGHT [Q:]; lettER [@`]
® [TINk]
note also one [wQn], year [j@`:], there [DE`:], our [a:], always [Q:lwIz], because [bIkVz], perhaps [pr/aps], bus [bUz], us [Uz], gardening [gA`:dnIn], curtain [k@`:tIn], nothing [nQTINk], half [ha:f] and café [kafi]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was no proper lavatories; there was three, four other women in that room)
adjective as adverb (it rubbed out ever so easy)
third person plural was (any of the children that was a bit nervous)
preterite growed (I growed a bit after I left school)
note the construction I should love to have done woodwork = I would love to have done woodwork | 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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