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Description: | Joe talks about developments in dairy farming during his lifetime. Birkenhead (to the north of Ledsham) and Chester (to the south) are large towns nearby. Newcastle refers to Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town to the southeast. The Milk Marketing Board (subsequently re-named Milk Marque) refers to the government agency established in 1933 to oversee milk production and distribution.
phonology
occasional H-dropping; /r/ ® [4 ~ r/]
START [a:]; PRICE [AI ~ @I]; FACE [eI]; GOAT [@U ~OU]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]
® [@]
note also one [wQn], took [t}:k], gallon [gal@nd], half [a:f], because [bIkOz], certain [s@:tIn], can’t [ka:n ~ ka:nt] and either [i:D@]
grammar
relative pronoun ® as (you’d get paid the same price per gallon as somebody as lived next door to the dairy)
double subjunctive in conditional clause (had you have done it the other way round = had you done it the other way round)
there was + plural complement (there was possibilities and probabilities on it)
second person was (you was picking the farm up because you knew the farmer)
determiner, those ® them (in them days) | 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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