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Description: | Harold describes childhood ruses for making money and recalls Sir Oswald Mosley coming to York in 1936. Bootham Crescent (home of York City FC) and Marygate are streets in the northwest of York. Open All Hours refers to the popular BBC sitcom (1973-1986) set in a typical northern corner shop run by the character Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker. Sir Oswald Mosley (1896-1980) was the leader of the British Union of Fascists. From 1935 onwards Mosley's overtly anti-semitic propaganda was targeted in working class areas and a number of marches and rallies were held especially in the East End of London.
lexis
booze= alcoholic drink (colloquial); kid = child
phonology
definite article ®[?]; H-dropping; T-glottaling; /r/ ®[r/ ~ 4]; + V ®[4 ~ ?]
GOAT [O:]; FACE [E:]; PRICE [a: ~ a:I]; START [a:]; NORTH [Q:]; GOOSE [Uu]
note also one [wQn], right [r/EIt], always [Q:lw@s], because [bIkQs], fellOW [fEl@], bottles [bQ?=lz], take [tEk], us [Uz], little [lI?=l], 1936 [na:Inti:nT@:?ttIsIks], getting [gEr/In], nothing [nQTIN] and with [wI]
grammar
have as full verb (we’d a couple of sacks full)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
first person singular object pronoun ® us (give us these pennies)
third person singular were (he were a strange fellow; it were that hot); first person plural was (we wasn’t fourteen then); third person plural was (they was having this meeting; they was near a radiator)
there is + plural complement (there’s these, what you call stormtroopers)
preterite come (one of these blackshirts fell down with the flag and the lot and come down like that)
note the constructions they called him Hindson = he was called Hindson and it were that hot = it was so hot | 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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