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Description: | Roy describes his childhood home in the 1930s.
lexis
scullery = small room attached to kitchen, in which washing of dishes and other dirty work is done; copper = large copper vessel for cooking or boil-washing laundry
phonology
L-vocalisation; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (the fire brick [br/I?k] of the copper); also of /p/ (people [pi:?p=L/]) and of /t/ (you went [wEn?t] in the door, into [In?t@], water [wO:U?t@], an inset [InsE?t] of zinc, if you sat [s{?t] in the toilet, they used to sit [sI?t] on those and Chatham [tS{?t@m])
GOAT [6U]; FACE [{I]; MOUTH [{U]; PRICE [AI]; NORTH [O:U > O:@]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [a > V]
note also toilET [tOIlIt], newspaper [nu:zp{Ip@] | 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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