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Description: | Fifteen years after the devastating impact of the miner’s strike, Bob reflects on the change in attitudes and community identity at a local level. He also expresses his hopes for the sustained regeneration of the area. Hemsworth (just to the northwest) is a nearby town, Doncaster (to the southeast) is a large town and Frickley (just to the south) is a former pit village. Arthur Scargill was born in Yorkshire in 1938 and was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1981-2002, during which time he most famously led the miners’ strike of 1984/5.
lexis
again = against; somewhat = something; get shut of = to get rid of; happen = perhaps, maybe; fetch = to bring; kid = child; hae = to have; buster = type of lottery ticket; aught = anything; mysen = myself
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping; Yorkshire assimilation (he could [kUt] see what were going on)
GOAT [OU > O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [a: > au]; PRICE [a: ~ a:I]; START [a:]; NORTH [Q:]; GOOSE [Uu]; happY [I]
® [dI]
note also us [Uz], weren’t [wA:nt] and were [wQ], didn’t [dInt], there [DI@], shouldn’t [SUnt], go [gU] and going [gUIn], wouldn’t [wUnt], because [bIkQs], isn’t [Int] and isn’t it? [IntIt], only [QnI], for [fQ], say [sE], take [tEk] and taken [tEk@n], perhaps [pr/aps], in [I], always [O:l@s], over [Qv@], moor [mu@], one [wQn], with [wI], right [r/EIt], aught [@Ut], busES [bUs@z], a bit of income [@ bIt @r/INkUm], and haven’t [ant]
grammar
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (us local MP died; I remember at us own pit; I hope we get us second round)
third person singular were (I just forget how it were worded; it were always a labour dominated (area); the support weren’t there for him; I didn’t think it were inevitable at the time; it were cheap to get shut on them here; it were basically used to pay them off; there were this sort of stick and carrot sort of thing; I basically thought he were conned, like; happen it were an ego thing; it were togetherness; they just took it as it were at the time; it were a right important match; it were a cup tie actually; the head timekeeper were the secretary of the supporters’ club)
relative pronoun ® what (he actually put a candidate what he thought would get on; there’s that money what’s on the table now)
of + pronoun ® on (it were cheap to get shut on them here)
clitic have as full verb (they’d summer in the front of them)
zero definite article (they used to walk to _ pit with their dad)
right as intensifier (it were a right important match)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
third person plural is (they’re very resilient shall I say, is mining people)
note the constructions he shouldn’t have gone on as long as what he did do = he shouldn’t have gone on as long as he did, he perhaps should’ve done better than what he did do = he perhaps should’ve done better than he did and when they held it like they did do = when they held it like they did. Note also the constructions he shouldn’t’ve gone on as long as what he did do = he shouldn’t’ve gone on as long as he did, they’d got a better agreement than what he had = they’d got a better agreement than he had, he perhaps should’ve done better than what he did do = he perhaps should’ve done better than he did and people don’t need as much fuel during the summer as what they do in the winter = people don’t need as much fuel during the summer as they do in the winter. | 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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