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Description: | Mary talks about the impact of technology on her work at Littlewoods. Littlewoods nowadays provides a number of gaming and betting services, but is perhaps most famous for launching a football pools service in Liverpool in 1923. Walton is an area in the north of Liverpool.
lexis
football pools = popular national betting game based on predicting weekly football results
phonology
occasional T-glottaling; /r/ ® [4 ~ r/]; affrication of /k/ (technology [tExnQl@dZi:], workers [we:kx@z], mark [mA:kx], check [tSEx], tick [tIkx], like [laIx], back [bax], can [kx@n], dramatically [dr/@matIkxli], o’clock [@klQkx], make [meIkx] and think [TINkx]) and of /t/ (devastatED [dEv@steIts@d], photographs [fVUts@g4afs], out [aUts], that [Dats], got [gQts], what [wQts], bet [bEts] and got to [gQts@]
FACE [eI]; GOAT [VU]; PRICE [aI ~ a:I]; NURSE [e:]; SQUARE [e:]; GOOSE [}:]; lettER [@ ~ E]; happY [i ~ i:]; kissES [@z]
+ V ® [Ng]
note also damAGE [dam@dZ], coupON [k}:p=n], with [wIt], one [wQn], goING [gVU@n], our [A:], because [bIkQz], doING [d}:@n], bettING [bE?=n], offICE [Qf@s], years [jI:z], servICE [se:v@s], can’t [kA:n], bringING [b4INg@n], needED [ni:d@d], family [famli:], want to [wQn@] and something [sUmtINk]
grammar
there is + plural complement (there’s not very many; there’s three hundred, I think, in Walton; there’s girls been there twenty-five years)
determiner, those ® them (all them jobs are now being cut out)
zero relative clause (there’s girls _ been there twenty-five years)
relative pronoun ® what (the technology what they’re bringing in now)
note use and phonetic quality of interjection um [e:m] | 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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