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Description: | Bob talks about starting work as a miner in the 1930s. He has a slight lisp.
lexis
journey = set of trams in mine; snap = mid-morning snack; collier = miner; lash on = to fasten, tie, secure
phonology
occasional H-dropping; /r/ ® [r/ ~ v/] (common idiosyncrasy rather than dialect feature); + V ® [r/]
FACE [E:]; GOAT [O:]; MOUTH [aU ~ a:]; PRICE [a:I]; SQUARE [@:]; NURSE [@ ~ @:]; NORTH [Q:]; PALM [a:]; happY [I]
® [u:k]; ® [Ng]
note also school [sk}:l], go [gU], one [wQn], because [bIkUz], nothing [nQTIN], didn’t [dInt], drawer [dr/O:w@], drawing [dr/O:wIn], always [Q:lw@z] and sure [SU@]
grammar
zero definite article (I was fourteen and one day when I started down _ pit; everybody down_ pit wore clogs; _ pit weren’t mechanised at all then)
there was + plural complement (there was three pits)
third person singular were (that were the only training you’d ever got; were there only one shift?; pit weren’t mechanised at all then)
clitic have (you’d nothing; you’d no overalls; you’d twenty-five minutes)
preterite come (it just come automatically)
have as full verb (you had a safety lamp)
note the construction you’d no overalls = you hadn’t (got) any overalls | 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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