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Description: | Diane recalls growing up in a small village with her five sisters and describes some of the pranks she and her friends used to indulge in.
lexis
cause = because; kid = child; six-bricks = children’s game, similar to hide-and-seek, in which players seek to return to home base (a pile of six bricks) without being caught – this pile is knocked down by players seeking to avoid being caught; knock-and-run = children’s prank in which children knock at someone’s front door, then run away before it has been answered; cuff = to strike, beat
phonology
definite article ® [? > t]; H-dropping
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [{Y]; PRICE [a:]; CHOICE [QI]; GOOSE [}:]; happY [I ~ E]
note also (be)cause [k@z ~ bIkQs], make [mEk] and made [mEd], us [Uz], next to us [t@r/Uz], only [QnI], hanging [aNgIn], COMpared [kQmpE:d], once [wQns] and one [wQn], balloon [b@L/}:n], hold [OUL/d] and told [tOUL/d], with [wI], didn’t [dInt], bushES [bUS@z] and first [f@st]
grammar
third person singular were (it were brilliant; it were a small village; it were great; there were the graveyard we used to play in, then there were the scrapyard where we used to make us dens; the field were next to us; knock-and-run were a real good game; there were bother when we were teenagers; it went slap bang on the table that my granddad were playing at; that were the biggest fight I’d ever had with my mum; that were his way of saying, “Right – I’ve told you!”; that were a double bed and a single bed; there were me and Linda left; they had another girl which were Joanne; it were brilliant); first person singular were (when I were about thirteen, fourteen)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (there were the scrapyard where we used to make us dens; we never said a word to each other, but made us way over to the old people’s whist night)
adjective as adverb (knock-and-run were a real good game; regular I used to come home and my dad’d had one of his fits again)
double comparative (girls are more untidier than boys) | 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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