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Description: | Mr Hunt talks about his work in the local brickyard and mill and recalls experiencing Zeppelin raids during World War I. Normanton refers to Normanton on Soar, a village just to the northeast of Hathern and Stanton presumably refers to Stanton under Bardon, a village to the southwest. Loughborough is a town just to the southeast. Zepp refers to the airships invented by Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, a German army officer who began developing his ideas in 1897. The first Zeppelin flew on 2nd July 1900: they could deliver successful long-range bombing attacks, but were extremely vulnerable to attack and bad weather. A number of Zeppelin raids were launched on Britain during World War I, the last of which was in June 1917.
lexis
grub = food; bob = shilling (colloquial); afore = before; kill =kiln; slack = small or refuse coal; purpose = on purpose, intentionally; cause = because; aye = yes; mun = must; hae = to have; copper = penny, loose change
phonology
definite article + V ® [D] (that’s the end [DEnd] on it); H-dropping
START [a:]; MOUTH [a:@]; NORTH [Q:]; FACE [E:]; NURSE [e: ~ @ ~ O]; PRICE [A:]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]
® [Iv@]
note also half [a:f], week [wIk], there [DI@] and where [wI@], hour [a:], me [mEI], slack [slEk], over [Qv@], looking [l}:kIn], gardens [ga:dInz], bossES [bQs@z], heard [I@d], with [wI], don’t [dUnt], yet [jIt], (be)cause [k@s], go [gU], us [Uz], these [DEIz] and once [wUns]
grammar
zero plural marker on nouns (for three year; six year; forty-four year; fifteen year; another ten year; four pair; six pair)
first person singular were (I were ten years of age and I had work the next day; I were there six year; the last year I were there; I were here forty-four year; I were there fifteen year; I were in the yarn room; I were talking to Mr Reeve); third person singular were (that were the finish)
zero to + infinitive (I were ten years of age and I had _ work; I want _ see Mr Hamley; you don’t want _ talk like that)
zero for + general time phrase (I were there _ six year; I were here _ forty-four year; I were there _ fifteen year)
preterite gen (they never gen me thanks)
preterite come (me and my son both come off together; he come to me)
preterite done (they done it purpose for the Zepps and that)
verbal inflection with I (I says)
of + pronoun ® on (that’s the end on it)
past participle forgot (I haven’t forgot you; he said he hadn’t forgot me)
past participle fell (it’s fell through)
preterite dare + negative particle ® dursn’t (I dursn’t [dOs=nt] tell you what it was over)
note the construction I’ve only had the sack but once = I’ve only had the sack once | 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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