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Description: | Mark talks about getting married and setting up home in the early 1960s. He also describes the competitive camaraderie he recalls during his early working life as a labourer.
lexis
our lass = my wife; gan = to go; bairn = young child; divvent = don’t; naebody = nobody; kid = child; nae = no; reckon = to think, believe; naught = nothing; aye = yes; crack = banter, bragging; blackguard = to swear; clarts = mud, dirt
phonology
glottal reinforcement of /k/ (lucky [lU?ki], quick [kwI?k] as I could, workING [wO:?k=n], in the back [ba?k] of your mind, reckon [r/E?k=n], like [lEI?k] a machine, I work [wO:?k] at a college and lookING [lU?k@n]); of /p/ (people [pi:?p=l], happy [ha?pi], carpET [kQ:?p@t], the kids grew up [U?p] a bit, we used to jump [dZUm?p] off the wagon, sleepING [sli:?p@n] and your muscles would pump [pUm?p] up) and of /t/ (attitudes [a?t@tSu:dz], better [bE?ta], straightaway [str/e:?t@we@], rentED [r/En?t@d], later [le:?ta], had to [ha?t@], fightING [fEI?t=n], I thought [TO:?t] I was like a machine, automatic [O:?t@ma?tIk], arthritis [Q:Tr/EI?t@s], sometimes [sUm?taImz] and it’s just the way it [I?t] is)
FACE [e@ > e:]; GOAT [8:]; MOUTH [u: > @U ~ aU]; PRICE [EI > aI]; NURSE [O:]; START [Q:]; happY [i > i:]; lettER [a]
+ C ® [a:l > A:l]; ® [TINk]
note also our [wO: ~ w@], always [a:lw@z], lassES [las@z], havING [hEv@n] and have [hEv], wrong [r/aN], cannot [kan@t], dead [di:d], know [na:], because [bIkOz], naught [nAUt], CONtent [kQntEnt], with [wI], years [jE:z], do [di:], over [aU@], laughING [laf@n], young ones [jUN@nz], night [ni:t] and us [Uz]
grammar
determiner, those ® them (them days)
dead as intensifier (dead lucky)
zero of (a bit _ carpet; I do a bit _ part-time teaching)
adjective as adverb (I paid it off quick as I could)
preterite done (it’s the best thing we done like; I was always good at what I done)
third person plural was (the cables was the best)
verbal inflection with plural pronoun (they says)
first person singular object pronoun ® us (they were all sitting around us; I had all these kids around us)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers you know [j@ na:], like [lEIk] and mind [mEInd] | 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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