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Description: | Steve recalls his primary schooldays and reflects on growing up in the 1960s. Sheerness (to the northeast of Gillingham) is a town at the mouth of The Medway on the Isle of Sheppey and Twydall is an area of Gillingham to the southeast of the town centre.
lexis
lay = to lie; sarnie = sandwich (colloquial)
phonology
occasional T-glottaling; L-vocalisation; TH-fronting (other [Vv@], anything [EnIfIN], rather [r/A:v@], through [fr/u:] and thing [fIN]); + V ® [d]
GOAT [6U]; FACE [aI]; MOUTH [{U ~ {:U]; PRICE [AI]; NORTH [O:U]; FOOT [}]; TRAP [{ ~ {.]; STRUT [V ~ a]
note also squirted [skw@:?Id], adults [@dVots], seeing how other [{:r/VD@] kids were brought up, everything [Evr/ITINk], new and knew [nu:], getting [gE?In], because [bIk@z], one [wQn], pretty [pr/Idi], couple [ka?=L/], better [bEd@] and us [Vs]
grammar
second person was (you was literally crying as she walked out; you was really close; when you was a kid); first person plural was (when we was kids; we was talking about it)
preterite done (they done everything together; that was normal – that’s what parents done)
there was + plural complement (there was so many of you; there was so many in the classes)
adjective as adverb (then you lost attention quicker) | 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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