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Description: | Charlie talks about his work aboard an effluent tanker and describes the wildlife on the river. The Mersey is the river that flows into the Irish Sea at Bootle.
phonology
occasional H-dropping; /r/ ® [r/ ~ 4]; + V ® [4]; affrication of /k/ (luckily [lUx@li], lock [lQx], week [wi:x], o’clock [@klQx ~ klQx], workING [we:kx@n] and work [we:kx], second [sEkx@nd], deck [dEkx], sick [sIkx], struck [str/Ukx], reckoned [r/Ekx@nd], mackerel [makxr/@L/], local [lOUkx=L/], pickING [pIkx@n], back [bax], dock [dQx]) and of /t/ (about [@baUts], eighteen [EItsi:n], tanks [tsaNks], automatically [O:t@matsIkli], automatED [O:t@mEIts@d], fourteen [fO:tsi:n], permittED [p@mIts@d], Saturday [sats@dEI] and height [haIts]); elision of utterance final /t/ (it’s as simple as that [Da])
GOAT [OU]; NURSE [e:]; GOOSE [}:]
® [}:kx]; ® [Ng]
note also loadING [lOUd@n], the [d@ ~ D@], half [hA:f ~ ha:f], washING [wQS@n], mornING [mO:n@n], runnING [r/Un@n], because [bIkQz], goING [gOU@n], dumpING [dUmp@n], complainING [k@mplEIn@n] and durING [djO:4@n]
grammar
use of plural yous (one of yous would go to the wheel)
zero plural marker on noun (three thousand ton)
there was + plural complement (there was six able seamen on board; there was fourteen in the crew) | 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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