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Description: | David recalls going down the mine for the first time.
lexis
about = around; paddy = colliery train from mine to pithead; theirself = themselves; cause= because
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping
GOAT [OU]; MOUTH [au]; PRICE [a:I]; NURSE [@: ~ E:]; GOOSE [Uu]; happY [I]; kissES [@z]
note also (be)cause [bIkQs ~ kQs], were [wQ], going to [gUn@], going [gUIn] and go [gU], imagINE [ImadZ@n], for [fQ], with [wI], once [wQns] and one [wQn], in [I], nothing [nQTIn], us [Uz], enjoyed [EndZQId] and couldn’t [kUnt]
grammar
third person singular were (it were the in thing; there weren’t much work about other than the colliery; there weren’t other work about; if there were, it were travelling; the colliery were just handy; it were definitely an experience); first person singular were (when I first went down I were sixteen)
zero plural marker on noun (twenty foot high; twelve foot high)
right as intensifier (you imagine it’s going to be right low)
relative pronoun ® what (there were four of us what we called a team)
multiple negation (we never had no serious accidents)
note the expression what’s going off? = what’s going on? | 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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