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Description: | Brian talks about his early working life at the Co-op shoe factory and at Imperial typewriters. Whetstone is at the southwestern extremity of the city of Leicester. The Co-op refers to the Co-operative Wholesale Society: a family of businesses whose activities range from food to finance and from farms to the manufacturing industry. Imperial refers to a type of typewriter formerly manufactured in the UK and Royal to a brand from the USA.
lexis
reckon = to count; clicking room = area where leather is cut out for boots and shoes; vamp = part of boot or shoe covering front of foot; linker = worker (usually female) of machines for joining or linking together loops of fabrics in hosiery trade; mam = mother (term of endearment); cause = because; aye = yes
phonology
H-dropping
PRICE [A:I]; MOUTH [aU ~ a:]; NURSE [@: > e:]; STRUT [U]; happY [I]
note also tongue [tQN], have to [at@], going [gUIn] and go [gU], years [jI:z], (be)cause [kUs ~ bIkUs], one [wQn], give [gI], class [klas], places [plEIzIz] and perhaps [pr/aps]
grammar
first person singular were (I were on the samples; when I were nineteen; I stopped there till I were nineteen) third person singular were (he were a good lad; it were an old, like an hardware shop; it were about ’68 when I left)
zero plural marker on nouns (twenty-six shilling; seven shilling; that’s forty year now)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (we used to have to go and pay us rent on the High Street)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
note use and phonetic quality of form of address my duck [mI dUk] | 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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