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Description: | Alfred reflects on the lasting impact that World War II and the Cold War left on his family. He explains how he has one sister who emigrated to the United States as a G.I. bride and another who emigrated to the German Democratic Republic having married a German P.O.W.
Prees Heath is a village just to the northeast of Wem. Shrewsbury (to the south) and Whitchurch (to the north) are market towns in Shropshire. Crewe is a town further to the northeast in Cheshire. Crete (in the eastern Mediterranean) is the largest Greek island and was invaded by airborne German forces in 1941. Brandenburg and Magdeburg are towns to the west of Berlin, formerly situated in East Germany (German Democratic Republic: 1949 – 1990). Singapore (the southernmost tip of the Malay peninsula) and Malaysia (the rest of the Malay peninsula and a number of islands in the area) are former British colonies invaded by Japan in 1942. Georgia (southeast) and California (southwest) are states of the USA. Burnaby is a suburb of Vancouver on the southwest coast of Canada.
lexis
G.I. bride (G.I. = abbreviation for government issue) = foreign woman married by American serviceman on duty abroad; the sticks ~ hicks = remote, thinly populated, rural area (often pejorative), any area perceived to be provincial or unsophisticated; Royal Engineers = regiment in British Army; Stasi (acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei) = secret police of former German Democratic Republic
phonology
+ V ® [4]; + V ® [Ng]
GOAT [OU]; MOUTH [VU > aU]; KIT [I > e]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; happY [i: ~ i]
® [TIn > TINk]
note also family [famL/i:], because [bIk@s], Whitchurch [wIts@tS], years [j@:z], omissions [oUmIS@nz], nothing [n@TIn], army [a:mi], once [wUns], authorities [@tOr/@tiz] and visa [vi:s@]
grammar
transitive listen (that would be a story to listen)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers like [lVIk ~ laIk] and you know [j@ nOU] | 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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