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Description: | Brian talks about his family’s involvement in the local fishing industry and reflects on changes in the local population. Grimsby (to the northwest of Sheringham) is a port on the Lincolnshire coast and Leicester (to the west) is a city in the East Midlands.
phonology
T-glottaling
GOAT [Uu ~ 6U]; FACE [{i]; MOUTH [{}]; PRICE [VI]; START [a:]; STRUT [V]; LOT [A ~ Q]
note also us [Vs], wasn’t [wQnt], always [O:l@s], so many [s@ mEni] and so much, [s@ mVtS], one [wQn], uncle [VN?k=L/], it [@t], community [k@mu:n@ti], getting [gE?In], servICE [s@:v@s], little [lI?=L/], city [sI?i], humorous [hu:m@r/@s] and knew [nu:]
grammar
third person plural was (there was so many fishermen at one time; they wasn’t bad days; when they was rowing the boat; especially the fishermen what was going to sea)
there was + plural complement (there was about five or six Henry Wests); there is + plural complement (there’s not many fishermen left in Sheringham now)
third person singular do + negative particle ® don’t (it all depends, don’t it?)
multiple negation (I don’t think fishermen are no different to nobody else; I haven’t [ant] no problems)
have as full verb (I haven’t no problems)
preterite done (when I done my national service)
relative pronoun ® what (I knew a lot of fishermen what would be in the pub all night long with half a pint; especially the fishermen what was going to sea)
neuter subject pronoun ® that (that was the company)
zero determiner (there wasn’t _ television then, you know = there wasn’t any television then, you know)
note the construction they don’t drink so much like they used to = they don’t drink as much as they used to | 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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