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Description: | Leonard describes the various types of transport he remembers from his younger days. Shouldham is a village just to the northeast of Downham Market and Denver a village just to the south. Kings Lynn and Hunstanton are towns to the north of Downham Market and Wisbech is a town just to the northwest. Snettisham is a village and Dersingham a town north of Kings Lynn on the road to Hunstanton. The Great Ouse is the river that flows north-south just to the west of Downham Market. The Co-op refers to the Co-operative Wholesale Society: a family of businesses whose activities range from food to finance and from farms to funerals. The first retail co-operative was founded in Rochdale in 1843 and by 1863 a group of retail societies had registered the North of England co-operative Society with the aim of supporting the growing retail consumer co-operative movement.
lexis
tumbril cart = type of farm cart with body that tilts backwards to empty load; omnibus = bus; char-à-banc = long, light motorised vehicle with transverse seats (fore-runner of modern coach); against = next to, near, beside
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /k/ (crikey! [kr/AI?ki]); also of /p/ (Co-op [kUuA?p], company [kVm?pni], couple [kV?p=L/] and over the top [tA?p] of us) and of /t/ (apprentice [@pr/En?t@s], got to [gQ?t@], eighty [{I?ti], we got [gQ?t] on, then we got [gQ?t] off, bottom [bA?t@m] and get [gE?t] out)
GOAT [Uu > @U]; MOUTH [EU]; FACE [{I]; PRICE [AI]; STRUT [V]; BATH [A:]; LOT [A ~ Q]
note also countryside [kVn?r/IsAId], startED [stA:t@d], getting [gE?=n], Downham Market [mA:k@t], wanting [wQn?@n], crossES [kr/As@z], because [b@kO:s], us [@z ~ Vs] and lastED [lA:st@d]
grammar
uninflected third person singular verb (“where the horse stop”, he say; that’ll be where Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Jones live)
zero plural marker on noun (another couple of year)
relative pronoun ® what (Baghdad, what is now causing all the trouble)
zero to + infinitive (I’m going _ take you and the boys to Hunstanton)
note the use of boy! as a form of address in don’t worry about that, boy! | 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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