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Description: | Sydney talks about growing up in the 1920s with six siblings in a small, three-bedroomed house in Appleton Roebuck.
lexis
cause = because; parlour = living room, “best” room; aye = yes; aught = anything; copper = large copper vessel used for cooking and boil-washing laundry; beck = stream; peggy-tub = wooden appliance with two arms, and legs or feet, used to stir and twirl clothes in the wash-tub; dolly-blue = proprietary product often used in washing whites; bubble-and-squeak = dish of leftover vegetables fried up together
phonology
definite article ® [? > t]; H-dropping
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; MOUTH [au]; PRICE [a: ~ aI]; START [a:]; NORTH [Q;]; FLEECE [Ii:]
® [dI]
note also toilet [tQIl@t], first [f@st], us [Uz], one [wQn], our [au@], in [I], (be)cause [kUs ~ kQs], only [QnI], CONtent [kQntEnt], aught [OUt], make [mEk] and maker [mEk@], clothes-horses [klO:zQsIz], always [O:l@s], broke [br/Qk], with [wI] and white [wEIt]
grammar
clitic have as full verb (we’d a candle to light it; he’d eleven of them; they’d a similar house to us; we’d a garden out at the back)
there was + plural complement (there was no fridges in those days; there was three of us in one bed)
first person singular were (went to school in Appleton Roebuck till I were fourteen)
on + general time phrase (we used to go to bed on a night)
inverted verb phrase as tag (she’d be working all day, would my mother; she was a good bread-maker, was my mother)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker mind [ma:Ind] | 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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