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Description: | Arthur recalls the experience of going to watch Burnley FC in the 1950s. He describes the bus journey to the ground, the crowds, the terraces and atmosphere at during the game. Newbridge is on the Nelson side of Barrowford. Higherford and Blacko are villages on Pendle Hill to the north. Turfmoor is the home of Burnley FC and Bloomfield Road the home of Blackpool FC. Rishton is a village to the northwest of Blackburn.
lexis
motor = car; sometime = sometimes; in under = underneath; cause = because; aye = yes; sin = since; naught = nothing; lick = to beat, defeat; now then! = hello!
phonology
definite article + C ® [?]; definite article + V ® [T] ; H-dropping; + V ® [r/]
FACE [E:]; NORTH [O@]; GOAT [o:]; PRICE [a:]; MOUTH [aU > a:] happY [E ~ I]
note also going [gUIn], Newbridge [nu:br/IdZ], very [v@r/I], one [wQn], taking [tEkIn] and take [tEk], because [bIkUs], Turfmoor [t@fmu@], CONvenient [kQnvi:nI@nt], amateur [am@t@ ~ am@tS@], (be)cause [k@s ~ bIkUs], go [gU ~ go:], busES [bUs@z], getting [gEr/In], by [bI], yesterday [j@st@dE], seen [sIn], generally [dZEnlI], year [jI@], produced [pr/@du:st], putting [pUr/In], terraced [t@r/@st], nothing [nQTIN], ambulance [amb@l@ns], faintED [fE:nt@d], whatever [wQr/Ev@], with [wI], make [mEk], half [a:f], Newcastle [nu:kas=L/], knew [nu:], naught [nOut] and get [gi:t]
grammar
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (any of us relations)
relative pronoun ® at (every bus at came was full; Brittain, at were manager; I don’t know anyone at didn’t go; buses at were coming through; that was the only one, at were terraced); relative pronoun ® what (sand, what they put in under now; twenty thousand, what they’re drawing now)
zero at (we used to wait _ Newbridge bus stop)
third person singular were (e.g. it were just a driver and conductor; he were a plumber; Stanley Matthews were playing; it weren’t a glamour ground; it were wonderful); first person singular were (all the time I were going)
preterite come (till it come your turn; it come back towards Nelson; till he come to Nelson centre)
zero definite article (to catch _ train; _ bus were much more convenient; they’d locked _ gates)
inverted verb phrase as tag (he was an amateur, were Peter Kippax)
independent personal pronoun (me and my wife)
at + general time phrase (at Boxing Day; at September holidays; at Boxing Day; at Saturday; at Monday)
verbal inflection with we (we gets on the bus; (we) gets to Queensgate; (we) gets to Burnley; we gets there); with I (I says)
zero for + time phrase (we stood at Queensgate _ about twenty-five minutes)
zero plural marker on nouns (twenty ton of ash; hundred mile; ten pound; twelve pound; two pound)
demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (them round about all put their hankies out)
preterite get (naught if they get licked)
past participle beat (when we got beat with Liverpool)
agent preposition, by ® with (when we got beat with Liverpool)
use of thou and thy (thou were twent | 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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