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Description: | Mr Kent recalls various forms of horse-drawn public transport. Cambridge Heath (just to the south of Hackney) Bloomsbury (to the southwest) Dalston (just to the west) and Pentonville (just to the southwest) are all nearby areas of East London.
lexis
dickey-sky-high = driver’s seat on roof of carriage; natter = chat; grub = food (colloquial)
phonology
H-dropping; occasional L-vocalisation; + V ® [d]
MOUTH [{:@ ~ {:U]; FACE [aI]; PRICE [AI]; GOAT [VU]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [a]
note also more [mO:@], gone [gO:n], before [bIfO:@], hour [a@], little [lId=L/], windOW [wInd@], regular [r/Eg@l@], off [Qf ~ O:f], talk [tO:Uk] and walk [wO:Uk], often [Qft@n], opposite [Qp@sAIt], and years [j@:z]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was horse trams; there was no stops)
second person was (if you was willing to jump on while he was running)
preterite run (he used to jump and hook it on the side and the horses run together to the top of the hill)
preterite give (he used to jump and hook it on the side and the horses run together to the top of the hill and give him a lift up)
zero indefinite article (there was _ old lady wanted to get off) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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