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Description: | Ann recalls the poverty of her childhood in the 1950s. The Sentinel refers to the local daily newspaper for North Staffordshire and south Cheshire. The Archers refers to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera set in Ambridge, a fictitious English village. It began as a pilot show on the BBC’s Midland Home Service in 1950 and is broadcast from Sunday to Friday with an omnibus edition every Sunday morning.
lexis
wireless = radio; dripping = melted fat that drips from roasting meat, which when cold is used like butter; sling = to throw; flop-bed = very basic bed; cause = because; pop = carbonated soft drink; aye = yes; our Ann = Ann (who is my daughter); gutted = devastated (colloquial); and all = also, too, as well
phonology
H-dropping; occasional T-glottaling; + V ® [r/]
GOAT [VU]; MOUTH [@} ~ E}]; PRICE [a:I]; START [A: ~ Q:]; NURSE [8:]; KIT [I > e]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]
note also Sentinel [sEnt=n@L/], cooked [k}:kt], us [Uz], wasn’t [wQn@], they [DI], slung it [slUNg It], school [sk}@L/], (be)cause [kUz], Saturday [satdi], bottle [bQ?=L/], beetroot [bi:?r/u:?], aunt [A:nt], years [j@:z], weeks [wIks], half [Q:f], dinner [dIne] and getting [gEr/In]
grammar
zero indefinite article (if you were lucky you had _ hot brick in the bed)
zero to + infinitive (if you wanted _ go toilet, it was outside; I’d have _ go bed then; if you wanted _ go pictures on Saturday mornings); zero to (if you wanted go _ toilet, it was outside; I’d have go _ bed then; if we’d got a candle, I went _ bed; they sent me _ bed early; I went _ bed this night; if you wanted go _ pictures on Saturday mornings)
preterite (be)come (Lizzie Gordon across the road, she come over; I must’ve improved: I become a prefect; I went right over the top, the scooter come in half)
past participle fell (I’ve fell off my bike)
feminine subject pronoun ® her (her’d sit there and there we’d sit till seven o’clock)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
past participle broke (my scooter’s broke)
third person plural was (they was called rabbits) | 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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