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Description: | “Granny” Bailey talks about the standard of living and working conditions in her youth. The original recording appears to have been paused on a number of occasions. Hinckley is a town to the northwest of Ullesthorpe, Lutterworth a town just to the southeast and Leicester a city to the northeast. The Club Walk refers to the annual festival of a benefit club or friendly society, often marked by a procession of the members.
lexis
fore = before; raddle = red ochre used as dye; red = to redden; fetch = to bring; naught = nothing; faggot = bundle of sticks used as fuel; while = till
phonology
definite article + V ® [D] (the other [DUD@] one; the oven [DUv@n])
NURSE [e: ~ @:]; START [a:]; NORTH [O: ~ O@]; MOUTH [a:]; PRICE [A:I]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]
note also had [Ed] and have [Ev], in [I], one [wOn], half [a:f], make [mEk] and take [tEk], never [nIv@], Whitsuntide [wIs=ntA:Id], used to [jUst@], go [gU], mothers [mQD@z], us [@z], there [DI@], naught [n@Ut], because [bIkUs] and faggots [fagIts]
grammar
multiple negation (there were no sideboards nor no fancy things)
third person singular were (there were nothing to cover the floors; there were naught else to do them days in the country); third person plural was (very bad off, people was)
determiner, that ~ those ® them (them time of day; them days)
adjective as adverb (we were very bad off; very bad off, people was)
past participle knowed (I’ve knowed what it is to want bread)
non standard word order with infinitive phrase (you’d got it to pay for = you’d got to pay for it)
relative pronoun ® as (anybody as couldn’t pay for it)
zero to + infinitive (we used _ go school at two)
zero to (we used go _ school at two; he used to go _ market three days a week)
first person plural possessive pronoun ® us (they wouldn’t let us out of school till us parents were there to fetch us)
preterite come (he come out here to be a carrier) | 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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