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Description: | Ann reminisces about her mother and the enjoyment she received by helping her with all the domestic chores. She particularly remembers the smells of her mother’s home cooking and proudly recounts how she herself continues to cook traditional food, such as broth. She stresses the importance of allotments for the local community when she was growing up.
lexis
mam = mother (term of endearment); poss = to stir clothes in wash tub with stick; broth = liquid in which meat has been boiled; mysell = myself; cause = because; somewhat = something; hinny = honey (form of address, used to express fondness); yoursell = yourself; oursells = ourselves
phonology
unstressed to ® [?]; + V ® [r/]
FACE [e:]; GOAT [o:]; START [Q:]
® [@ ~ o:]
note also always [O:lw@z], because [bIkQs], washing [wQS=n], mangle [maN=L/], with [wIT], years [j3:z], dumplings [dUmpl@nz], pudding [pUd=n], either [aID{] and sausage [sQs@dZ]
grammar
zero relative pronoun (my father had three brothers _ lived round the next street)
determiner and demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (in them days; them are my mothers; them vegetables)
preterite come (I come back)
preterite eat (we just eat that; we eat them)
out of ® out (out _ the soil; straight out _ the soil)
zero to (we could always go down _ the allotments)
note also use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ no:] | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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