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Description: | Joyce reflects on the impact of technology on farming in her youth and recalls the type of food produced for family meals when she was a child. Aston Munslow is a village just to the southwest of Brockton. Radbrook probably refers to Radbrook College in Shrewsbury (a town to the north of Brockton). Fordson tractors were produced at the Ford factory in Dagenham (London) from 1933. Allis Chalmers was a Milwaukee (USA) based manufacturer of farm vehicles and machinery from 1914 to 1985.
lexis
point-to-pointer = person who participates in cross-country or steeple-chase races; cause = because; granny = grandmother (term of endearment); Hereford = breed of cattle distinguished by its reddish-brown colour and white face; Friesian = breed of black and white large dairy cattle
phonology
very occasional H-dropping; occasional rhoticity
NURSE [@`:]; STRUT [V]; PRICE [aI ~ AI]; START [A: > A`:]; MOUTH [{U]; NORTH [O: > O`:]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also years [jI@`z]; half [a:f ~ ha:f], always [O:lw@z], (be)cause [bIk@s ~ k@z], aunt’s [a:nts] | 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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