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Description: | Tony discusses the significance and importance of shooting and hunting, both to himself and the local community. The White Swan is the name of a pub owned by the speaker.
lexis
four point ten = 4.10 calibre gun; fox-covert = fox shelter, fox-hole; cause = because; terrier-man = man employed to look after terriers
phonology
definite article ® [D@ > t] (for the price [f@t pr/aIs]); occasional H-dropping; + V ® [r/]
START [a:]; GOAT [8: > o:]; FACE [E:]; NORTH [Q:]; GOOSE [Uu]; PRICE [a: ~ aI]; CHOICE [QI]; happY [I]
note also (be)cause [bIk@s ~ kQs], getting [gE4In], ones [wQnz], for [fQ] and make [mEk]
grammar
zero plural marker on noun (about ten year old; four pound fifty)
inverted verb phrase as tag (they’re only culling out foxes, are the hunt)
there is + plural complement (there’s a lot of people make a living out of supplying the hunt)
zero relative pronoun (there’s a lot of people _ make a living out of supplying the hunt)
double subjunctive (if it wouldn’t be for foxhunting and shooting there wouldn’t be any foxes and there wouldn’t be any wild game bird = if it weren’t for …) | 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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