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Description: | Paul recalls the camaraderie amongst the miners at Killamarsh in the 1970s and remembers the depression surrounding the closure of the pit in the 1980s. Killamarsh is a former pit village just to the west of Harthill.
lexis
overman = colliery foreman; rib = to tease; push-bike = bicycle; somewhat = something; train up = to train, teach; cause = because; light on = to meet, come across
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping; + V ® [r/]
GOAT [O: > OU]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [a: ~ aU]; PRICE [A:I ~ a:I]; happY [I]
note also one [wQn], having [EvIn] and have [Ev], opened [Qp@nd], door [dU@], overman [Qv@man], oldish [EUdIS], us [Uz], whatever [wQr/Ev@], raw onions [r/O:wUnI@nz], making [mEkIn], there [DI@], before [bIfO@], wasn’t [wQnt], go [gU] and going [gUIn], didn’t [dInt], want [want], with [wI], (be)cause [kQs], getting [gEr/In], were [wQ], nothing [nUTIn], often [Qft@n] and worse [w@s]
grammar
third person singular were (he were turning tubs of coal, like; he were pulling the telephone wires; he were pulling it all the way down; it were only a joke, see; it were unbelievable that; there were a foreman in the pit-bottom; it were a big, pot-bellied stove; there were a chap got killed; there were one or two got killed, like; he were working in the pit-bottom; it were his helmet what’d saved him; he were in the hospital; it were unbelievable; everybody were chasing him; that were his last day; inside of twelve month it were shut; that were like shutting half of the village; it felt as though half the village were dead; there were no work anywhere else; that were worse still); first person plural was (we wasn’t actually down the pit)
right as intensifier (it were unbelievable that – right laugh)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (when we used to break for us dinner; we asked him for us cheque)
determiner, those ® them (get them onions off of that)
preposition, off ® off of (get them onions off of that)
preterite semd (all that semd to happen before I got there, like)
relative pronoun ® what (it were his helmet what’d saved him)
multiple negation (I didn’t want that to happen to nobody; nobody’s having nothing off me)
zero plural marker on nouns (about fourteen year; inside of twelve month; two, three pound an hour)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker like [lA:Ik] | 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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