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Description: | Pat recalls the leisure pursuits available to her as a teenager in the 1950s. The Regent refers to a cinema, The Imperial to a dance-hall and The Sparrow-hawk to a public house. Tum Hills is a hill in Nelson.
lexis
pictures ~ picture house = cinema; lose one’s marbles = to become forgetful, lose one’s common sense (colloquial); cause = because; sarsaparilla = soft drink made from liquorice with roots of ginger and sarsaparilla plant; pop = carbonated drink; butty = sandwich
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping; occasional T-glottaling
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; NORTH [O@]; PRICE [a:]; GOOSE [}:]; happY [I ~ E]
note also go [gU], us [Uz], Saturday [satdI], our [aU@], if you saw them [sO:w @m] now, it isn’t [ItInt], make [mEk], do [dU], whatever [wQ?Ev@], (be)cause [kQs], sparrOW-hawk [spar/@hO:k], with [wI], didn't [dInt] and embroidery [Embr/QId@r/E]
grammar
third person singular were (everywhere were a picture place; it were a shilling up in the circle; he were very posh; it were a two-bit picture house, but we used to think it were marvellous; she were a lot of fun; a penny ice-lolly which were four-pence; it were four-pence that would probably’ve bought a loaf; my mother were terrified of these cows)
zero definite article (nine-pence at _ back)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (we used to get us sixpences Saturday and go to The Regent)
inverted verb phrase as tag (it was very nice, was The Regent; it was the real thing, was The Regent)
determiner, those ® them (we used to do all them; in them days)
right as intensifier (she must not have installed it right much)
note the construction she must not have instilled it right much = she can’t have instilled it very much. Note also the construction we used to go _ picnics = we used to go for picnics. | 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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