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Description: | Harold recalls blackberry picking and rabbit poaching in his youth. Arnold is on the northeastern outskirts of the city of Nottingham.
lexis
swank = to brag, boast
phonology
H-dropping; + V ® [r/]
PRICE [a:I ~ A:I]; GOAT [@u]; MOUTH [{:]; FACE [EI ~ Ei]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; happY [I ~ E]
note also isn’t it? [IntIt], bushES [bUS@z], perhaps [pr/aps], take [tEk] and taking [tEkIn], once [wUns], over [Qv@], couldn’t [kUnt], I shall get you [as@ gE?j@], knew and new [nu:], told [tEUd], half [A:f], guttED [gUt@d], only [@unI], neither [na:ID@], wasn’t there [wQnt D@] and wasn’t it? [wQntIt], fields [fIUz], bolt [bQUt], so many [s@ mEnI], didn’t [dInt], gangs [gaNgz], getting [gEr/In] and one [wQn]
grammar
there is + plural complement (I don’t think there’s any bushes there, is there?)
third person singular were (he were gamekeeper; the grass were fairly long; that were Brinklow); first person singular were (I were on my own)
preterite come (he come and I were on my own; he come to Arnold every Friday night; he come for prescriptions for people as worked at the big house)
relative pronoun ® as (people as worked at the big house)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
zero definite article (I told you you hadn’t [Ent] heard _ last of it; you get rabbits on _ football field; they’ve asked me about this at _ park)
determiner and demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (I got half a crown for them wheels; in them days; them weren’t the only places where you get rabbits; I could get rid of all them pigeons in twenty-four hours)
for to + infinitive (they were glad for to get rid of them); zero to + infinitive (used _ be vans come from Nottingham; I’m not going _ tell you how you caught wood pigeons)
note the construction I didn’t ought to swank about it = I ought not to swank about it | 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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