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Description: | Walter talks about the expansion of his corn trade in the 1930s. He mentions numerous nearby towns that were crucial to his business: St Neots (to the northeast of Bromham), Wellingborough (to the northwest), Bedford (just to the east), Newport Pagnell (to the southwest), Bletchley (to the southwest), Kimbolton (to the northeast) and Buckingham (to the southwest). Turvey (just to the west) and Stagsden (just to the southwest) are local villages.
lexis
cause = because
phonology
/r/ ® [v/]; occasional T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /p/ (cheaper [tSi:?p@])
MOUTH [{U]; PRICE [AI]; FACE [{I]; START [A: > a:]; TRAP [{]
note also off [O:f], us [Vs], (be)cause [k@z ~ bIk@z]
grammar
third person plural was (the corns was all wet); first person plural was (we was quite … we was happy at Stagsden) | 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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