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Description: | Dee recalls running away from home as a teenager and the trauma it caused. Leeds is a city to the north of Sheffield.
lexis
somewhat = something; cause = because; lass = girl
phonology
definite article ® [?]; H-dropping; T-glottaling
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E: > E:I]; MOUTH [a: ~ aU]; PRICE [a:I]; NORTH [O@ ~ U@]; THOUGHT [Q:]; GOOSE [Uu]; happY [E ~ I]; startED [@d]; lettER [@ ~ 6]
note also officES [QfIs@z], one [wQn], there [DI@] and where [wI@], little [lIk=L/], taking [tEkIn], started [stA:?@d], (be)cause [k@s ~ bIkUs], do [du], go [gu:], how I’d [a:r/a:Id] look at it, with [wI], didn’t [dInt], knew [nUu], belongings [bIlQNgInz] and CONcern [kQns@:n]
grammar
third person singular were (he were quite the centre of attention; it were car components; it were a bit more money; three pound somewhat which were about equal to social security money; my mum and dad thought he were wonderful; he were twenty-one and I were only fifteen; he were almost twenty-two; this fellow who were, like, lower than the low; it were a biscuit company; I can’t remember quite what it were for; due to the way the relationship were [wQ]; it were horrendous; she were also a very smart woman; that weren’t [wQ:nt] the mum that I knew; my biggest fear were when the police’d finished talking to me; my biggest fear were I’d got a ten Number Six packet of cigarettes in my bag); first person singular were (I were very jealous; I were already into drinking; when I were fifteen; I were only fifteen; when I were working there; I were away for six months; I were at work one day and the police come and got me; I were involved in all sorts of things I never ought to’ve been)
zero plural marker on noun (three pound somewhat)
preterite telled (he telled me pretty quick)
adjective as adverb (he telled me pretty quick)
on + general time phrase (I used to sneak out of the house on a night)
preterite come (I were at work one day and the police come and got me)
past participle took ((I) got took to the Leeds police station)
preterite gived (they gived [gId] me a full body search and everything)
note the construction Frank they call him = he was called Frank. Note also the construction somewhat he didn’t ought to be doing = something he ought not to be doing. | 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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