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Description: | Sam talks about growing up in a pub in the 1920s and describes traditional pub entertainment. Victoria refers to the mainline railway station in London (to the northwest of Meopham).
lexis
spittoon = earthenware or metal receptacle for spittle; polyphone = large musical box, driven by clockwork or by hand, and capable of playing any tune when corresponding perforated disk is inserted; squeezebox = concertina (colloquial)
phonology
occasional L-vocalisation (local [l@Uko] and people [pi:po])
FACE [{I]; MOUTH [{U]; PRICE [AI]; SQUARE [E@]; TRAP [{]
note also because [bIkOz], stairs [stE@z], floor [flO:@] and little [lI?=L/ ~ lId=L/]
grammar
there was + plural complement (when the war came on there was blackouts) | 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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