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Description: | Ted talks about working at a clothing factory before World War II. He recalls airmen being stationed locally and describes the arrival of evacuees from London. West Wickham (just to the northwest of Haverhill), Stradishall (just to the northeast), Yeldham (just to the southeast) and Castle Camps (just to the southwest) are all nearby villages. The Gurteen weaving mill was the mainstay of Haverhill’s industry in the last century and still produces cloth today. The de Havilland Mosquito was a British twin-engine, two-seat, mid-wing bomber aircraft that was adapted to become the prime night fighter of the Allies during World War II. The Supermarine Spitfire was one of the fastest and most effective single-seat fighters of World War II. Both first came into RAF service in 1938.
lexis
lay = amount of twist given to strand in weaving; band-knife = endless knife consisting of steel belt with serrated edge running with great speed over wheels; at the finish = in the end; rec. = recreation ground
phonology
glottal reinforcement of /k/ (Wickham [wI?k@m], local [l@U?k=L/], chemicals [kEmI?k=L/z], weekend [wi:?kEnd]) and lucky [la?ki]); also of /p/ (open [@U?p=n]) and of /t/ (cutter [ka?t@], duty [du:?ti], Mosquitoes [mQski:?t@z] and billeted [bIl@?tId])
PRICE [VI ~ OI]; MOUTH [EU]; FACE [{I]; START [a:]; CLOTH [O:]; TRAP [{]; BATH [a:]; STRUT [@ ~ a]; LOT [Q > A]
note also family [f{mli], us [@s ~ as], Haverhill [h{Ivr/@L/], so many [s@ mEni], duty [du:?ti], Gurteen’s [gE:ti:nz] and MosquitOEs [mQski:?t@z]
grammar
neuter subject pronoun ® that (that was like one big family; that’s quite nice that you can walk down the street and you pass a hundred people and you don’t see one Haverhill person)
relative pronoun ® what (I’ve got some very nice friends what’d come into the town; I’ve got a bit of shrapnel now what hit the back door); zero relative pronoun (there was seven bombs _ just dropped out the back here)
third person plural was (Eastman’s they was called; they was on the rec.; the Americans was at Yeldham; they was in every, you know, local building; they was open fields; they was trying to get away from the Spitfires; they was just billeted; they was here must’ve been nearly a couple of years); first person plural was (we thought we was going to get the sack; we had their parents down on the weekend, like, to see how we was getting on with the children)
multiple negation (they couldn’t do nothing about it; if they’d’ve dropped them, there wouldn’t be no Haverhill; the poor little beggars ain’t got hardly anything)
preterite done (we done three days a week; you done your night duty)
preterite come (they come round – and so we got the union at the finish; they was just billeted – they just come to the house)
there was + plural complement (there was so many soldiers, you know, coming into the town; there was stations in the ex-servicemen’s club; there was stations in every building; there was all aerodromes all around; there was soldiers on the rec.; there was seven bombs just dropped out the back here; there was two next door)
double subjunctive in conditional clause (if they’d’ve dropped them, there wouldn’t be no Haverhill = if they’d dropped them)
on + general time phrase (we had their parents down on the weekend, like)
third person plural preterite have + negative particle ® ain’t (the poor little beggars ain’t got hardly anything) | 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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