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Description: | David recalls earning money as a young boy by using a homemade trolley to run errands and do deliveries around Barnoldswick. He also remembers wearing clogs and using a sledge in severe winters. Wapping is the nickname for Westgate in the southwestern outskirts of Barnoldswick.
lexis
conker = horse-chestnut; made up = happy, delighted; mebbe = maybe, perhaps; naught = nothing; pad = clumps of snow which accumulate on clogs and require intermittent knocking off; clog = shoe with thick wooden sole covered by rim of metal to protect feet from wet and dirt; again = against
phonology
definite article ® [? > ?t]; H-dropping; occasional T-glottaling; + V ® [4]
PRICE [a:]; NORTH [O@]; START [a: > A:]; CHOICE [QI]; GOAT [o:]; FACE [E: ~ E@]; happY [I]
note also always [Ow@s > Ql@s ~ Olw@z], Barnoldswick [bA:lIk], made [mEd], make [mEk] and taking [tEkIn], yes [j@s], newspaper [nu:spE@p@ > nju:zpE@p@], with [wI], putting [pU4In], one [wQn], go [gU], because [bIkQs], nothing [nQTIN], naught [nOUt], Wapping [wapIn], isn’t it? [IntIt], how [a:], home [o@m] and school [sku@l]
grammar
complementiser, so that ® so’s that (so’s that you could pull them along)
third person singular were (there were nothing else really, were there?; there were naught; winter were winter; it were that snowy; there were what you called a padding corner; a padding corner were where you bang your bloody clog again the wall; it were that big a thing, were the padding corners; there were a council horse-and-cart)
adjective as adverb (my truck made … yes … paid for itself regular)
at + general time phrase (at Saturday morning)
determiner and demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (in them times; do you remember them?)
complementiser, so ® that (it were that snowy; it were that big)
inverted verb phrase as tag (it were that big a thing, were the padding corners)
have as full verb (I have a clogger’s shop)
note construction it did seem to do = it did seem to | 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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