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Title:
Ingatestone, Essex
Shelfmark:
C1190/02/02
Recording date:
16.04.2005
Speakers: Arkell, John, b. 1953 Ilford, Essex; male; estate manager Azeem, The Honourable Clare Helen, b. 1974; female Petre, Dominic, b. 1967 London; male Petre, Lord John, b. 1943 Windsor, Berkshire; male
The interviewees are three family members of Lord Petre of Ingatestone Hall and the estate manager. ELICITED LEXIS
* see Survey of English Dialects Basic Material (1962-1971) x see Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (2009) ∆ see New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) ◊ see Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) ♦ see Urban Dictionary (online) ⌂ no previous source (with this sense) identified pleased chuffed; pleased; happy; happy as a sand-boy; very content; satisfied; pig in clover; warmed; glad; over the moon; in the pink; tickled (“tickled as Punch”x1) tired knackered; tired; worn-out; fatigued; exhausted; spent; stuffed; puffed; half dead; fagged out; shagged; flagging; weary unwell not feeling very well; off-colour (suggested by interviewer); unwell; rotten; ill; sick; poorly; under the weather; hors de combat; yucky; feel like the devil⌂; out of sorts; crook; gyp; ailing; peaky; not firing on all cylinders2; ill; groggy∆; lousy (used frequently); shitty◊ hot boiling; hot; baking (of self); scalding; blistering; scorching (“what a scorcher” used ironically as Private Eye3 cliché); Harry Redders4 (Navy slang for “red hot day”) cold cold; fucking freezing; freezing; frozen
1 Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (2009) records ‘pleased as Punch’ in this sense. 2 OED (online edition) includes ‘function on all cylinders’ in this sense. 3 British satirical current affairs magazine first published in 1961, currently published fortnightly. 4 OED (online edition) includes several examples of the productive process ‘Harry <-ers>’ but not ‘Harry Redders’, ‘Harry Zonkers’ or ‘Harry Roughers’.
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annoyed piqued; irritated; angry; cross; irate; miffed; upset; pissed off; having one’s cage rattled∆5; get one’s goat; disappointed; librarian-poo (learnt from Terry Pratchett6); get a bezzy on⌂; chocker (“I’m absolutely chocker”); cross, annoyed (of mild annoyance); vexed; irritated (of extreme annoyance, “angry”); narked; having a strop throw chuck; lob; toss; heave; hurl; bowl; pitch; ding over; fire over; fire at; shoot at; shoot over; whing; fling; cast; shy; throw; buzz (“buzz it over here” used of “energetic throw”); bung (of short throw) play truant bunk off; skive (“let’s skive French”, disputed, used more frequently of work); skive off; slide away; slope off; AWOL; abscond; hookey (“play hookey”) sleep kip; sleep; snooze; nap; doze; Harry Zonkers4; head down; Egyptian PT ♦, catching some zeds∆, rivet counting⌂, mattress testing⌂, crash, shut-eye (used in Navy); going subcritical⌂ (used in “nuclear submarines”) play a game to play; “do you want a game?” (of e.g. football), “shall we have/do some Monopoly7?” (of e.g. board game); sport, amuse oneself, knock-about (found in thesaurus) hit hard wallop; thwack; smack; smash; bonk; hammer; hit for six; strike; cane; lamp; bash; pile- drive; wham; clobber; buffet; stamp; clout (“it figures very large in agricultural machine maintenance”); thump clothes clothes; gear; stuff (of self, “I’ll get my stuff”); outfit (of other’s, “where did you get your outfit?”); wardrobe; kit; glad rags; clobber (“nice clobber” used humorously); uniform (of “official uniform”, also of clothes worn by e.g. city broker) trousers trews (common in Scotland); slacks (of female trousers, heard used but disliked of male trousers); pants (used in USA); trousers; kecks (also thought to mean ‘underwear’); shorts (of short trousers) child’s shoe plimsolls (used “deliberately” in contrast to ‘trainers’ as “pure affectation”); sneakers (“American”); trainers (modern); gym shoes, daps (used intentionally to “annoy” younger speakers) mother mummy (of/to own mother, of close friends’ mother); mother (of own mother); ma; mum; mater; mom, mommy (used in USA) gmother granny (of/to own grandmother); grandmother (of other’s grandmother); namna⌂ [namnɑː], munga⌂, gargy⌂ [gɑːgiː] (childhood pronunciations used to grandmother subsequently adopted within family); grandma; grandmamma; oma (of/to Dutch grandmother); nan; gramps; narna⌂ [nɑːnə]; nana m partner boyfriend; husband; lover, significant other (used ironically); partner; “use their name” (i.e. by name); fella; spouse; other half; toy-boy (“where appropriate”); man friend friend; mate; pal; chum; oppo; mucker; side-kick; crony; cobber; amigo; buddy; ally gfather grandad (to own grandfather); grandfather (of own/other’s grandfather); grandpa; grandpapa; gramps*; opa (of/to Dutch grandfather); grandaddy forgot name thing; what’s-the-word⌂; whojamaflip◊; doobrey (“girly”, of small object); doodah; what’s- its-name; what’s-his-name; whassname∆; thingummy; whatsit; oojah-ma-flip∆; doohickey; whatchamacallit; widget kit of tools tool-kit; tool-box, set of tools
5 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) includes ‘who rattled your cage?’ in this sense. 6 English author (b.1948) of comic fantasy novels, incl. Discworld series. 7 Popular board game published by Parker Brothers since 1934.
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trendy chav; common; tacky; trashy; dog’s dinner (of “fashion victim”); spiv (old), punk (“in it’s old-fashioned meaning”), yob (of male); tartlet, scrubber, Essex girl (of female); tart (of older female); brash; tarty (of female); Essex man (of male) f partner fuck buddy◊ (heard used by male friend of casual relationship); girlfriend; bird (“his bird”); wife; spouse; better half; her; the boss; she; She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed; Sync Nav Home⌂, Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command⌂ (used ironically in Navy); ball and chain◊; bit of stuff; significant other; her indoors; the girlfriend; the management⌂ (“I’ll have to run that by the management” used of wife), my people♦ (“I’ll get my people to talk to your people” used jokingly to close male friends of wife); Home Secretary⌂ baby sprog, spawn of Satan♦ (to friends); baby; children; little one; tot; brat; ankle-biter; rug-rat; sproglet◊ rain heavily pour; cloud-burst; monsoon; cats and dogs; downpour; heavens opened (used in weather forecasts); chunks of Pommy sunshine⌂ (heard used by Australian); heavy precipitation; pouring; peeing down; pissing down toilet loo; lavatory; facilities (“where are your facilities?” used jokingly to friends); heads; bog (used jokingly); john; trap◊; W.C.; dunny; cludgie∆; shithouse; throne room◊; thunder box; smallest room; bathroom (heard used, disliked, avoided); “do you need a pee”, comfort break (of ‘going to toilet’); “opportunity to retire”⌂, “opportunity to tidy”⌂ (used by Royal Family of planned ‘toilet break’ on official duty); rest room; “sharpen one’s skates”⌂, “see a man about a dog”, “I’m going to turn my bicycle around”♦8 (of ‘going to toilet’) walkway alley (of walkway wider than ‘passageway’); alley-way; cut; passageway (of walkway narrower than ‘alley’) long seat sofa; settee; couch (“more acceptable” than ‘settee’, used in USA) run water stream; creek; burn; brook; rivulet; spring; drain; rean (used when living in Somerset); beck; rill main room TV room; sitting room (of less formal room than ‘drawing room’); lounge, snug, parlour, living room (disliked, not used); drawing room (of room used for “entertaining”, considered “snotty/too grand”, avoided); television room; front room rain lightly spitting; drizzling; mizzling (of rain lighter than ‘drizzle’); drizzle; grizzling⌂; shower; light precipitation (used in weather forecasts) rich minted; loaded; rolling in it; the other half (“how the other half live” used ironically); seriously loaded; well off; stinking (“stinking rich”); well-heeled; Lord Muck; not short of a bob or two; rich as Crœsus; Rockefeller; Bill Gates⌂9 (modern); “he’s got a few quid” left-handed cack-handed; left-handed; being a bit sinister (used jokingly); lefty unattractive rank, minging (disliked but used, also means ‘drunk’); plain; “personality blessed”⌂ (suggested jokingly); hideous (of people/situations); ugly; grim; brown-bagger♦; two- bagger◊10, three-bagger◊10, four-bagger◊10; a gnaw your arm off♦11; gruesome; back end of a bus∆; nine-pints-lovely⌂12, eight-pinter♦12; LRF♦ (abbreviation for “Low Resolution Fox”♦); monet◊ (i.e. “looks great from a distance but when you get up it’s all rubbish splodges”) lack money pikey (“well pikey”); povvie◊; the other half (“how the other half live” used ironically); poor; slightly on the bread-line; skint; brassic; broke; boracic; cleaned out; stony; light∆; short; hard up; church mice; destitute; on one’s uppers; two brass farthings⌂
8 See entry for ‘turn your bike round’. 9 Reference, presumably to Bill Gates (b.1955), US business man and founder / chairman of Microsoft Corporation. 10 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) includes compounds with <-bagger>, e.g. ‘double-bagger’ in this sense. 11 Urban Dictionary (online) includes ‘gnaw my own arm off’ in sense of ‘last thing you’d ever want to do’. 12 Urban Dictionary (online) includes compounds of numeral + <-pinter>, e.g. ‘ten-pinter’ in this sense.
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drunk minging; ratted; rat-arsed; pissed (of self in contrast to ‘drunk’); out of it; rolling; sloshed; tipsy; one over the eight; four sheets to the wind; fou; tanked; inebriated; oiled; shit-faced; soused; pickled; intoxicated; socially confused⌂; boozed; temporarily unaware of his surroundings⌂; tired and emotional (Private Eye2 cliché used ironically); drunk (of others in contrast to ‘pissed’); as the newt; drunk as a lord (suggested by interviewer, not used); hammered; trolleyed; smashed; mullered; in a right two and … (< two and eight∆: state, used ironically); worse for wear; tight as a newt; tight (old); lit up (also of person under influence of drugs) pregnant pregnant; up duff; with child (used when being intentionally “pompous/ironic/pretentious”); having a baby; up the duff; one in the oven; bun in the oven; gravid (“pompous”); in trouble; preggers; expecting (most common) attractive gorgeous; lovely; pretty; fanciable; smashing; oil painting; scrumptious; fair; bonny; pleasing; appealing insane mentalist (learnt from Alan Partridge13); mad (“happily insane”); psycho (“madly insane”); challenged; nutter; loony (used frequently of e.g. anonymous letters of complaint); loopy; round the twist; one short of a six pack◊; sandwich short of a picnic◊; nuts; lunatic; doolally; unstable; fou; bonkers; stark staring; touched; cracked; round the bend; one stick short of a bundle∆14; dancing to a different tune/different piper/different drum/marching to a different …15 (“there are loads of them”) moody stroppy; baity, in a bait (used in boarding schools, “she’s in a whoosh-bait”); moody; grouchy; “how are the snow drops?”⌂ (code used in ‘Molesworth’16 letters, e.g. “you’re father’s in a dreadful bait and the snowdrops are up”); unpredictable; up and down; fitful; tetchy; crotchety; crabby
TV remote remote control; doofer; hoofer-doofer⌂ (considered affected); the control (“the ’troller”); zapper, whatsit (suggested by interviewer, known) SPONTANEOUS LEXIS
Fred Karno’s Army◊ = phrase used to describe anything chaotic, disorganised, incompetent (0:06:51 it comes from I think the eighteenth century when there was a particularly incompetent uh um purser shore- based purser called Harry Tate who uh was exceptionally bad at outfitting the ships so it became a byname for like Fred Karno’s Army it was Harry Tate’s Navy17) gosh = exclamation expressing surprise or disbelief (0:29:26 oh gosh, I thought we’d done ‘drunk’ no, we haven’t, have we?) Harry Roughers4 = rough (0:06:43 you can put ‘Harry’ in front of almost anything like ‘rough weather’ ‘Harry Roughers’) Harry Tate’s Navyx = nickname for Royal Naval Patrol Service17 and phrase used to describe anything chaotic, disorganised, incompetent (0:06:51 it comes from I think the eighteenth century when there was a particularly incompetent uh um purser shore-based purser called Harry Tate who uh was exceptionally bad at outfitting the ships so it became a byname for like Fred Karno’s Army16 it was Harry Tate’s Navy)
13 Fictional radio and TV presenter played by British comedian Steve Coogan (b.1965), first appearing on BBC Radio 4 satirical news show On The Hour in 1991. 14 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) includes several examples of ‘NOUN (part) short of NOUN (whole)’ in this sense but not ‘one straw short of a load’. 15 OED (online edition) includes ‘march to a different drummer in this sense’. 16 Fictional author co-created by British writer Geoffrey Willans (1911-1958) and cartoonist Ronald Searle (1920-2011) of series of books incl. Down with Skool, first published in 1953. 17 Branch of Royal Navy formed during Second World War recruited principally from Royal Naval Reserve.
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jolly = very, really (0:39:29 but it’s jolly damn close you’ve got to admit it I think it’s a ver… I think it’s the best of the words we’ve had so far) PC = politically correct (0:12:16 I think it is self-explanatory I know one’s not allowed to to say that sort of thing in these days of PC but it is one that’s passed into the language) well = very, really (0:25:07 I would use it I’m really really embarrassed I would use it in that context (so he is she is?) yes, yes, ‘well pikey’ being the extreme) widdershins = anti-clockwise (0:21:54 and I know there is a word for ‘anti-clockwise’ but I couldn’t I I couldn’t put my finger on it and I could never got round to what’s there is it’s like ‘whirligig’ or something not it’s not ‘whirligig’ (‘widdershins’) ‘widdershins’ that’s it) PHONOLOGY
KIT [ɪ] (0:19:36 well I would say that ‘gym shoes’ [ʤɪmʃuːz] and ‘plimsolls’ [plɪmsəʊɫz] are the black slip-on [slɪpɒn] ones that we used to have with [wɪð] just the rubber soles and the sort of canvas (yes) over the top; 0:24:29 ‘well off’ ‘stinking’ [stɪŋkɪŋ] as in ‘stinking rich’ [stɪŋkɪŋ ɹɪʧ] obviously ‘well-heeled’ ‘loaded’ ‘Lord Muck’ ‘not short of a bob or two’ ‘rich [ɹɪʧ] as Crœsus’ ‘Rockefeller’ and of course more latterly ‘Bill [bɪɫ] Gates’9)
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necessarily) (no, I I I’m) (I’m attracted [ətɹaktɪd] to my f… my friends) (yeah)); 1:06:16 ‘little one’ ‘tot’ ‘brat’ [bɹat] ‘ankle-biter’ [a ] ‘rug-rat’ [ɹʌgɹat] ‘sproglet’) LOT~CLOTH [ɒ] (0:00:35 yes, well I I think with a lot [lɒt] of these one’s first one’s first uh inclination was to just repeat the word that was already there but in a desperate attempt to get away from that I thought ‘rotten’ [ɹɒʔ ] is probably [pɹɒbəbli] what [wɒt] I usually say; 0:24:29 ‘well off’ [wɛlɒf] ‘stinking’ as in ‘stinking rich’ obviously [ɒbviəsli] ‘well-heeled’ ‘loaded’ ‘Lord Muck’ ‘not short of a bob [bɒb] or two’ ‘rich as Crœsus’ ‘Rockefeller’ [ɹɒkəfɛlə] and of course more latterly ‘Bill Gates’9; 0:25:07 I would use it I’m really really embarrassed I would use it in that context [kɒntɛkst] (so he is she is?) yes, yes, ‘well pikey’ being the extreme; 1:06:16 ‘little one’ ‘tot’ [tɒt] ‘brat’ ‘ankle-biter’ ‘rug-rat’ ‘sproglet’ [spɹɒglət]) STRUT [ʌ] (0:09:07 yeah, I had ‘chuck’ [ʧʌk] and also ‘bung’ [bʌŋ] if it’s a shorter throw it’ll be “bung [bʌŋ] it over here”; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ [hɑːd ʌp] ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ [ʌpəz] ‘two brass farthings’; 0:58:40 I put ‘chav’ without much [mʌʧ] enthusiasm ’cause it’s all it’s the sort of word that’s been imposed on us [ʌs] really, you know) lovely18 (0:36:42 (‘attractive’) um I had ‘gorgeous’ or ‘lovely [lɐvli] um said like that, “lovely” [lavəli] (with two ‘V’s and an ‘E’) ‘E’ ‘R’, yeah) ONE (0:16:28 you know, none [nʌn] of none [nʌn] of us have mentioned uniform yet; 0:17:08 very hard one [wʌn] this I mean synonyms for ‘trousers’ ‘trews’ spend a lot of our time in Scotland they they use the word a lot there; 0:19:36 well I would say that ‘gym shoes’ and ‘plimsolls’ are the black slip-on ones [wʌnz] that we used to have with just the rubber soles and the sort of canvas (yes) over the top; 0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly in the way I speak is is is sort of self- consciously using often Private Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one [wʌn] I thought of ‘tired and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s [wʌnz] vocabulary ’cause it’s sort of dragged from outside and it’s it is ironic, you know 0:42:43 ‘one [wʌn] stick short of a bundle’ is one [wʌn] that I use but I I forgot; 0:46:17 nothing [nʌθɪŋ] more to say, yeah, ‘granny’ and ‘grandmother’ as in, “your grandmother did that”, yeah; 0:51:29 all of the ones [wʌnz] that have been mentioned really ‘husband’ ‘fellow’ ‘spouse’ ‘other half’; 0:56:57 the problem with the remote control is that you actually have to be specific nowadays (yes) because I mean we’ve got one [wɒn] room in our house that has five remote controls in it; 1:06:16 ‘little one’ [wʌn] ‘tot’ ‘brat’ ‘ankle-biter’ ‘rug-rat’ ‘sproglet’) FOOT [ʊ > ɵ] (0:23:35 and also slightly ironically ‘the other half’ um, you know, used in if if someone’s, you know, um says um, you know, “oh we’ve just had a swimming pool put [pʊt] in” or something like that you’d say “oh, the that’s how the other half live”; 0:32:19 um I had ‘hammered’ ‘trolleyed’ um ‘pissed’ ‘smashed’ ‘mullered’ [mɵləd]; 0:46:04 if I was referring to her I would [wʊd] say probably ‘my grandmother’ or ‘my’ I suppose ‘my granny’, yeah, um somebody else’s I would [wʊd] certainly say ‘grandmother’, yeah; 0:31:11 “what a scorcher” I mean we u… (yes) we use that because Private Eye3 in particular has taught us that that is a good [gʊd] cliché; 1:12:56 ‘loo’ or ‘lavatory’ at a push [pɵʃ]) BATH [ɑː]
18 This pronunciation is consciously ‘performed’.
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(0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass [bɹɑːs] farthings’; 1:07:16 uh ‘shower’ and if you’ve had to do as many weather forecasts [fɔːkɑːsts] as I have ‘light precipitation’) circumstance (0:51:03 (well even if you knew them it it’s difficult, isn’t it, you know because) yes, because you don’t know what the circumstances [səːkəmstansɪz] are that day (you’re presuming that that) (yes) (uh that there is a uh they may be just be sh… flat sharing, you know); 1:13:07 ‘loo’ just ‘loo’ in all circumstances [səːkəmstənsɪz]) NURSE [əː] (0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly [pəːfɪktli] well that that that the modern word [wəːd] is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ [ʧəːʧ mʌɪs] ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’; 0:46:04 if I was referring [ɹɪfəːɹɪŋ] to her I would say probably ‘my grandmother’ or ‘my’ I suppose ‘my granny’, yeah, um somebody else’s I would certainly [səːʔ li] say ‘grandmother’, yeah) FLEECE [iː] (0:13:52 I agree [agɹiː] with absolutely everything um everybody’s sort of said but my solution to the problem was to cheat [ʧiːt]; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ [kliːnd aʊt] ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’; 0:50:37 I think, you know, I tend to sort of avoid the problem and actually just use ‘partner’, you know, sort it out your… between [bɪtwiːn] yourselves as to what your relationship is or or even [iːvən] better use their name) been (0:43:44 having been [bɪn] reminded of it, yeah, it is a word I very much use, yes) FACE [ɛɪ] (0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ [tɹɛɪnəz] but I’m afraid [əfɹɛɪd] that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation [afɛktɛɪʃən]; 0:49:39 more so actually I would use ‘boyfriend’ if it was a gay [gɛɪ] relationship [ɹɪlɛɪʃənʃɪp] stra… strangely [stɹɛɪnʤli] I don’t know why that should be um ‘lover’ I might use sort of ironically; 0:50:37 I think, you know, I tend to sort of avoid the problem and actually just use ‘partner’, you know, sort it out your… between yourselves as to what your relationship [ɹɪlɛɪʃənʃɪp] is or or even better use their name [nɛɪm]) PALM~START [ɑː] (0:05:25 (similarly um ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ but more extremely ‘boiling’ and ‘freezing’ probably without the adjective) yes, well I’ve rung the changes and gone for ‘baking’ rather [ɹɑːðə] than ‘boiling’; 0:17:08 very hard [hɑːd] one this I mean synonyms for ‘trousers’ ‘trews’ spend a lot of our time in Scotland they they use the word a lot there; 0:23:35 and also slightly ironically ‘the other half’ [hɑːf] um, you know, used in if if someone’s, you know, um says um, you know, “oh we’ve just had a swimming pool put in” or something like that you’d say “oh, the that’s how the other half [hɑːf] live”; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ [hɑːd ʌp] ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’ [fɑːðɪŋ]) THOUGHT~NORTH~FORCE [ɔː] (0:09:07 yeah, I had ‘chuck’ and also [ɔːɫsəʊ] ‘bung’ if it’s a shorter [ʃɔːtə] throw it’ll be “bung it over here”; 0:16:37 but I mean even it’s not um official uniform, [juːnɪfɔːm] you know, it’s like, you know, a um city broker is wearing a uniform, [juːnɪfɔːm] you know; 0:31:11 “what a scorcher” [skɔːʧə] I mean we u… (yes) we use that because Private Eye3 in particular has taught [tɔːt] us that that is a good cliché; 0:41:00 again and also [ɔːɫsəʊ] perhaps it’s slightly off the ‘insane’ um sort [sɔːd] of word but it’s in the same sort [sɔːd] of broad [bɹɔːd] category um I I would use ‘challenged’ it’s in but I won’t do the voice
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1:07:16 uh ‘shower’ and if you’ve had to do as many weather forecasts [fɔːkɑːsts] as I have ‘light precipitation’) GOAT [əʊ] (0:09:07 yeah, I had ‘chuck’ and also [ɔːɫsəʊ] ‘bung’ if it’s a shorter throw [θɹəʊ] it’ll be “bung it over [əʊvə] here”; 0:15:40 this really is subject to context, isn’t it, I mean the word I put down is ‘wardrobe’ [wɔːdɹəʊb]; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ [bɹəʊk] ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ [stəʊni] ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’; 0:56:57 the problem with the remote control [ɹɪməʊt kəntɹəʊɫ] is that you actually have to be specific nowadays (yes) because I mean we’ve got one room in our house that has five remote controls [ɹɪməʊt kəntɹəʊɫz] in it; 1:00:47 I’ve got ‘real Essex girl’ because that is a is a phrase that people use and ‘tart’ perhaps if they’re a bit older [əʊɫdə]) don’t know (0:10:59 I don’t know [dʌnəʊ] what ir… what’s ironic about ‘kip’?) <-ow>, plimsolls (0:19:02 I think, John, I mean I think there is a difference between ‘plimsolls’ [plɪmsəɫz] (yes, there is) and ‘sneakers’ and trainers’; 0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ [plɪmpsəʊɫz] but it’s it’s pure affectation; 0:19:36 well I would say that ‘gym shoes’ and ‘plimsolls’ [plɪmsəʊɫz] are the black slip-on ones that we used to have with just the rubber soles and the sort of canvas (yes) over the top; 0:51:29 all of the ones that have been mentioned really ‘husband’ ‘fellow’ [fɛlə] ‘spouse’ ‘other half’) GOOSE [uː] (0:13:52 I agree with absolutely [apsəluːtli] everything um everybody’s sort of said but my solution [səluːʃə ] to the problem was to cheat; 0:16:37 but I mean even it’s not um official uniform, [juːnɪfɔːm] you know, it’s like, you know, a um city broker is wearing a uniform, [juːnɪfɔːm] you know; 0:19:36 well I would say that ‘gym shoes’ [ʤɪmʃuːz] and ‘plimsoll’s are the black slip-on ones that we used [juːst] to have with just the rubber soles and the sort of canvas (yes) over the top; 1:13:07 ‘loo’ [luː] just ‘loo’ [luː] in all circumstances) room (0:56:57 the problem with the remote control is that you actually have to be specific nowadays (yes) because I mean we’ve got one room [ɹuːm] in our house that has five remote controls in it; 1:09:51 the ‘sitting room’ [sɪtɪŋ ɹʊm] is um sort of more of a day room [ɹʊm] the ‘drawing room’ [dɹɔːɹɪŋ ɹʊm] is more of a a night room [ɹʊm]; 1:10:43 ‘living room’ [lɪvɪŋ ɹuːm] ‘sitting room’ [sɪtɪŋ ɹuːm] ‘drawing room’ [dɹɔːɪŋ ɹuːm] ‘front room’ [fɹʌnt ɹuːm] ‘parlour’ all the usual suspects) PRICE [ʌɪ] (0:24:00 oh God, well no, just if I was perhaps I don’t know describing [dɪskɹʌɪbɪŋ] somebody’s new boyfriend to somebody else I would say, “he is absolutely ‘minted’”, you know, “she’s done well he’s absolutely ‘minted’”; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ [lʌɪt] ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ [ʧəːʧ mʌɪs] ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’; 01:04:30 I must say within within um my [mʌɪ] group of friends the wives [wʌɪvz] are often uh quite [kwʌɪt] often referred to as ‘my [mʌɪ] people’) tired (0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly in the way I speak is is is sort of self-consciously using often Private Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one I thought of ‘tired [taəd] and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s vocabulary ’cause it’s sort of dragged from outside and it’s it is ironic, you know) CHOICE [ɔɪ]
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(0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy [ənɔɪ] use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation; 0:24:00 oh God, well no, just if I was perhaps I don’t know describing somebody’s new boyfriend [bɔɪfɹɛnd] to somebody else I would say, “he is absolutely ‘minted’”, you know, “she’s done well he’s absolutely ‘minted’”; 0:41:00 again and also perhaps it’s slightly off the ‘insane’ um sort of word but it’s in the same sort of broad category um I I would use ‘challenged’ it’s in but I won’t do the voice [vɔɪs]) MOUTH [aʊ] (0:15:08 (if uh a friend was wearing something that you particularly liked would you say if you were asking them where they got it from for instance how would you put that into a sentence?) ‘outfit’ [aʊʔfɪt] “where did you get your outfit?” [aʊʔfɪt]; 0:46:51 I wouldn’t describe her as anything else accept my ‘grandmother’ but actually I addressed her by a curious word which is ‘namna’ which was the the the my uh my infantile effort at pronouncing [pɹənaʊnsɪŋ] the word ‘grandmother’; 0:51:29 all of the ones that have been mentioned really ‘husband’ ‘fellow’ ‘spouse’ [spaʊs] ‘other half’) nowadays, our, shower (0:17:08 very hard one this I mean synonyms for ‘trousers’ ‘trews’ spend a lot of our [aː] time in Scotland they they use the word a lot there; 0:56:57 the problem with the remote control is that you actually have to be specific nowadays [naədɛɪz] (yes) because I mean we’ve got one room in our [ɑː] house that has five remote controls in it; 1:07:16 uh ‘shower’ [ʃaʊə] and if you’ve had to do as many weather forecasts as I have ‘light precipitation’) NEAR [ɪə ~ ɪː] (0:09:07 yeah, I had ‘chuck’ and also ‘bung’ if it’s a shorter throw it’ll be “bung it over here” [hɪə]; 0:51:29 all of the ones that have been mentioned really [ɹɪːli] ‘husband’ ‘fellow’ ‘spouse’ ‘other half’; 0:52:05 a term I heard um someone use the other day, no, this is absolutely true um he’s he’s twenty-three this boy and he used the the phrase ‘fuck buddy’ which I found amusing when it’s not serious [sɪːɹiəs]; 0:56:05 I don’t have any sort of word that I can say, “yeah, that’s clearly [klɪəli] the right word”) SQUARE [ɛː > ɛə] (0:16:37 but I mean even it’s not um official uniform, you know, it’s like, you know, a um city broker is wearing [wɛːɹɪŋ] a uniform, you know; 0:29:32 yeah, we get some fairly [fɛːɹli] rude ones here and I’ve got an awful lot of them do you want them all?; 0:59:57 perhaps in some contexts I would say ‘dog’s dinner’ or something like that but again rarely [ɹɛəɹli]) CURE [ʊə > ɔː] (0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation [pjʊəɹ afɛktɛɪʃən]; 0:25:32 again ‘poor’ [pɔː] and um ‘slightly on the bread-line’ I sort of use but not with any real consistency but I it just occurred to me that I have; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ [pʊə] ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’; 0:46:51 I wouldn’t describe her as anything else accept my ‘grandmother’ but actually I addressed her by a curious [kjʊəɹiəs] word which is ‘namna’ which was the the the my uh my infantile effort at pronouncing the word ‘grandmother’) happY [i > ɪ] (0:00:53 I’ve got a few for most of them ‘ill’ ‘sick’, ‘poorly’, [pʊəli] ‘under the weather’; 0:19:18 they’re not trendy [tɹɛndɪ] because they’re awfully [ɔːflɪ] cheap (yes); 0:24:29 ‘well off’ ‘stinking’ as in ‘stinking rich’ obviously [ɒbviəsli] ‘well-heeled’ ‘loaded’ ‘Lord Muck’ ‘not short of a bob or two’ ‘rich as Crœsus’ ‘Rockefeller’ and of course more latterly [latəli] ‘Bill Gates’9; 0:37:34 ‘attractive’ means you’re attracted to them that means you fancy [fansi] them it’s uh almost a (no not necessarily [nɛsəsɛɹəli]) (no, I I I’m) (I’m attracted to my f… my friends) (yeah))
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lettER~commA [ə] (0:00:53 I’ve got a few for most of them ‘ill’ ‘sick’, ‘poorly’, ‘under [ʌndə] the weather’ [wɛðə]; 0:09:07 yeah, I had ‘chuck’ and also ‘bung’ if it’s a shorter [ʃɔːtə] throw it’ll be “bung it over [əʊvə] here”; 0:16:37 but I mean even it’s not um official uniform, you know, it’s like, you know, a um city broker [bɹəʊkə] is wearing a uniform, you know) startED [ɪ] (0:24:29 ‘well off’ ‘stinking’ as in ‘stinking rich’ obviously ‘well-heeled’ ‘loaded’ [ləʊdɪd] ‘Lord Muck’ ‘not short of a bob or two’ ‘rich as Crœsus’ ‘Rockefeller’ and of course more latterly ‘Bill Gates’9; 0:43:44 having been reminded [ɹɪmʌɪndɪd] of it, yeah, it is a word I very much use, yes) horsES [ɪ] (0:05:25 (similarly um ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ but more extremely ‘boiling’ and ‘freezing’ probably without the adjective) yes, well I’ve rung the changes [ʧɛɪnʤɪz] and gone for ‘baking’ rather than ‘boiling’; 0:20:06 uh ‘gym shoe’ did tend to apply to the black but you weren’t wrong if you applied it to the white version with laces [lɛɪsɪz] as well) mornING [ɪ] (0:05:25 similarly um ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ but more extremely ‘boiling’ [bɔɪlɪŋ] and ‘freezing’ [fɹiːzɪŋ] probably without the adjective (yes, well I’ve rung the changes and gone for ‘baking’ [bɛɪkɪŋ] rather than ‘boiling’ [bɔɪlɪŋ]); 0:24:00 oh God, well no, just if I was perhaps I don’t know describing [dɪskɹʌɪbɪŋ] somebody’s new boyfriend to somebody else I would say, “he is absolutely ‘minted’”, you know, “she’s done well he’s absolutely ‘minted’”; 0:46:51 I wouldn’t describe her as anything [ɛnɪθɪŋ] else accept my ‘grandmother’ but actually I addressed her by a curious word which is ‘namna’ which was the the the my uh my infantile effort at pronouncing [pɹənaʊnsɪŋ] the word ‘grandmother’)
ZERO RHOTICITY (0:49:39 more so actually I would use ‘boyfriend’ if it was a gay relationship stra… strangely I don’t know why that should be um ‘lover’ [lʌvɚ]18 I might use sort of ironically)
PLOSIVES
T frequent word final T-glottaling (e.g. 0:09:07 yeah, I had ‘chuck’ and also ‘bung’ if it’s a shorter throw it’ll [ɪʔ ] be “bung it [ɪʔ] over here”; 0:15:08 (if uh a friend was wearing something that you particularly liked would you say if you were asking them where they got it from for instance how would you put that into a sentence?) ‘outfit’ [aʊʔfɪt] “where did you get [gɛʔ] your outfit?” [aʊʔfɪʔ]; 0:25:07 I would use it [ɪʔ] I’m really really embarrassed I would use it [ɪʔ] in that context (so he is she is?) yes, yes, ‘well pikey’ being the extreme; 0:49:23 I put ‘boyfriend’ just um I wa… I wasn’t sure whether it [ɪʔ] was a a ‘husband’ or or whatever; 1:07:42 if you have a separate [sɛpɹəʔ] room without a television then that’s the ‘sitting room’ the s… room with the TV in it [ɪʔ] is the ‘TV room’) word medial & syllable initial T-glottaling (0:00:35 yes, well I I think with a lot of these one’s first one’s first uh inclination was to just repeat the word that was already there but in a desperate attempt to get away from that I thought ‘rotten’ [ɹɒʔ ] is probably what I usually say; 0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly [səːʔ li] in the way I speak is is is sort of self-consciously using often Private Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one I thought of ‘tired and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s vocabulary ’cause it’s sort of dragged from outside and it’s it is ironic, you know)
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frequent T-voicing (e.g. 0:00:53 I’ve got [gɒd] a few for most of them ‘ill’ ‘sick’, ‘poorly’, ‘under the weather’; 0:16:37 but [bəd] I mean even it’s not um official uniform, you know, it’s like, you know, a um city broker is wearing a uniform, you know; 0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but [bəd] it’s it’s pure affectation; 0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly in the way I speak is is is sort [sɔːd] of self- consciously using often Private Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one I thought of ‘tired and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort [sɔːd] of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s vocabulary ’cause it’s sort [sɔːd] of dragged from outside and it’s it [ɪd] is ironic, you know; 0:49:23 I put ‘boyfriend’ just um I wa… I wasn’t sure whether it was a a ‘husband’ or or whatever [wɒdɛvə]; 1:12:56 ‘loo’ or ‘lavatory’ at [əd] a push)
NASALS
N frequent syllabic N with nasal release (e.g. 0:06:02 I wou… I probably wouldn’t [wʊd t] say, “it’s a baking day” I I meant I assumed it was in the context of, you know, ’cause it says here ‘how do you feel’ it’s “I’m baking”; 0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern [mɒd ] word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation; 0:46:51 I wouldn’t [wʊd t] describe her as anything else accept my ‘grandmother’ but actually I addressed her by a curious word which is ‘namna’ which was the the the my uh my infantile effort at pronouncing the word ‘grandmother’) syllabic N with epenthetic schwa (01:04:30 I must say within within um my group of friends the wives are often [ɒftən] uh quite often referred to as ‘my people’)
LIQUIDS
R approximant R (0:16:37 but I mean even it’s not um official uniform, you know, it’s like, you know, a um city broker [bɹəʊkə] is wearing [wɛːɹɪŋ] a uniform, you know; 0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ [tɹɛɪnəz] but I’m afraid [əfɹɛɪd] that I deliberately [dɪlɪbɹətli] to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation [pjʊəɹ afɛktɛɪʃən]; 01:04:30 I must say within within um my group [gɹuːp] of friends [fɹɛndz] the wives are often uh quite often referred [ɹɪfəːd] to as ‘my people’)
L clear onset L (0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly [pəːfɪktli] well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately [dɪlɪbɹətli] to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ [plɪmpsəʊɫz] but it’s it’s pure affectation; 0:24:29 ‘well off’ [wɛlɒf] ‘stinking’ as in ‘stinking rich’ obviously [ɒbviəsli] ‘well- heeled’ ‘loaded’ [ləʊdɪd] ‘Lord Muck’ [lɔːd mʌk] ‘not short of a bob or two’ ‘rich as Crœsus’ ‘Rockefeller’ [ɹɒkəfɛlə] and of course more latterly [latəli] ‘Bill Gates’9; 0:25:32 again ‘poor’ and um ‘slightly [slʌɪtli] on the bread-line’ [bɹɛdlʌɪn] I sort of use but not with any real consistency but I it just occurred to me that I have) dark coda L (0:19:36 well I would say that ‘gym shoes’ and ‘plimsolls’ [plɪmsəʊɫz] are the black slip-on ones that we used to have with just the rubber soles [səʊɫz] and the sort of canvas (yes) over the top; 0:24:29 ‘well off’ ‘stinking’ as in ‘stinking rich’ obviously ‘well-heeled’ [wɛɫhiːɫd] ‘loaded’ ‘Lord Muck’ ‘not short of a bob or two’ ‘rich as Crœsus’ ‘Rockefeller’ and of course more latterly ‘Bill [bɪɫ] Gates’9;
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1:00:47 I’ve got ‘real [ɹiːɫ] Essex girl’ [gəːɫ] because that is a is a phrase that people [ ] use and ‘tart’ perhaps if they’re a bit older [əʊɫdə]) syllabic L with lateral release (0:10:16 I’d take the middle [ ] way on that I would say ‘skive off’; 0:31:48 probably if describing myself I would say, “I’m feeling a little [ ] bit pissed”; 1:06:16 ‘little [ ] one’ ‘tot’ ‘brat’ ‘ankle-biter’ ‘rug-rat’ ‘sproglet’) syllabic L with epenthetic schwa (0:39:54 if I was calling someone ‘insane’ I’m afraid I would call them a ‘mentalist’ [mɛntəlɪst]; 0:42:43 ‘one stick short of a bundle’ [bʌndəl] is one that I use but I I forgot)
GLIDES
J yod with word medial S (0:06:02 I wou… I probably wouldn’t say, “it’s a baking day” I I meant I assumed [əsjuːmd] it was in the context of, you know, ’cause it says here ‘how do you feel’ it’s “I’m baking”; 0:59:02 I didn’t automatically assume [əsjuːm] that they would be common) yod dropping with word medial Z (0:51:03 well even if you knew them it it’s difficult, isn’t it, you know because (yes, because you don’t know what the circumstances are that day) you’re presuming [pɹəzuːmɪŋ] that that (yes) uh that there is a uh they may be just be sh… flat sharing, you know) yod coalescence (0:07:48 I had a problem with this ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ business because it wasn’t defined as to whether it was temperature I mean ‘cold’ can be as far as attitude [atɪʧuːd] is concerned and ‘hot’ could mean, “hey, he’s hot”; 0:15:08 (if uh a friend was wearing something that you particularly liked would you say if you were asking them where they got it from for instance how would you put that into a sentence?) ‘outfit’ “where did you [ʤə] get your outfit?”; 0:25:59 ‘broke’ ‘skint’ ‘boracic’ ‘cleaned out’ ‘stony’ ‘poor’ ‘light’ ‘short’ ‘hard up’ ‘church mice’ ‘destitute’ [dɛstɪʧuːt] ‘on one’s uppers’ ‘two brass farthings’; 1:17:35 us three are the same family but uh we’ve all sort of gone away to be educated [ɛʤukɛɪtɪd] and everything)
ELISION prepositions of reduction (0:00:53 I’ve got a few for most of [ə] them ‘ill’ ‘sick’, ‘poorly’, ‘under the weather’; 1:17:35 us three are the same family but uh we’ve all sort of [ə] gone away to be educated and everything) negation secondary contraction (0:59:02 I didn’t [dɪnʔ] automatically assume that they would be common) simplification syllable deletion (0:19:18 they’re not trendy because they’re awfully [ɔːflɪ] cheap (yes); 0:46:04 if I was referring to her I would say probably ‘my grandmother’ or ‘my’ I suppose [spəʊz] ‘my granny’, yeah, um somebody else’s I would certainly say ‘grandmother’, yeah)
TH-deletion with them (0:29:32 yeah, we get some fairly rude ones here and I’ve got an awful lot of them [əm] do you want them [ðəm] all?)
LIAISON frequent linking R (e.g. 0:05:25 similarly um ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ but more extremely [mɔːɹ ɪkstɹiːmli] ‘boiling’ and ‘freezing’ probably without the adjective (yes, well I’ve rung the changes and gone for ‘baking’ rather than ‘boiling’); 0:07:48 I had a problem with this ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ business because it
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wasn’t defined as to whether it [wɛðəɹ ɪʔ] was temperature I mean ‘cold’ can be as far as [fɑːɹ əz] attitude is concerned and ‘hot’ could mean, “hey, he’s hot”; 0:15:08 (if uh a friend was wearing something that you particularly liked would you say if you were asking them where they got it from for instance how would you put that into a sentence?) ‘outfit’ “where did you get your outfit?” [jəɹ aʊʔfɪt]; 0:18:44 well I mean we know we all know perfectly well that that that the modern word is ‘trainers’ but I’m afraid that I deliberately to annoy use ‘plimsolls’ but it’s it’s pure affectation [pjʊəɹ afɛktɛɪʃən]; 0:30:50 uh but there are [ðɛːɹ ɑː] there’re [ðəɹ ə] many other examples [ʌðəɹ ɪ ] of that anyway but ‘pissed’ is my general word; 0:49:23 I put ‘boyfriend’ just um I wa… I wasn’t sure whether it [wɛðəɹ ɪʔ] was a a ‘husband’ or or whatever; 1:09:51 the ‘sitting room’ is um sort of more of [mɔːɹ əv] a day room the ‘drawing room’ is more of [mɔːɹ əv] a a night room) zero linking R (0:19:18 they’re not trendy because they’re awfully [ðɛː ɔːflɪ] cheap; 0:50:37 I think, you know, I tend to sort of avoid the problem and actually just use ‘partner’, you know, sort it out your… between yourselves as to what your relationship is or or even [ɔː iːvən] better use their name) intrusive R (1:09:27 I mean we we have a ‘sitting room’ and a ‘drawing room’ [dɹɔːɹɪŋ ɹʊm])
WEAK-STRONG CONTRAST word final vowel strengthening (0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly in the way I speak is is is sort of self-consciously using often Private [pɹʌɪvɪt] Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one I thought of ‘tired and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s vocabulary ’cause it’s sort of dragged from outside and it’s it is ironic, you know; 1:00:47 I’ve got ‘real Essex [ɛsɪks] girl’ because that is a is a phrase that people use and ‘tart’ perhaps if they’re a bit older) LEXICALLY SPECIFIC VARIATION again (0:25:32 again [əgɛn] ‘poor’ and um ‘slightly on the bread-line’ I sort of use but not with any real consistency but I it just occurred to me that I have; 0:41:00 again [əgɛn] and also perhaps it’s slightly off the ‘insane’ um sort of word but it’s in the same sort of broad category um I I would use ‘challenged’ it’s in but I won’t do the voice; 0:59:57 perhaps in some contexts I would say ‘dog’s dinner’ or something like that but again [əgɛn] rarely) (be)cause (0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly in the way I speak is is is sort of self-consciously using often Private Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one I thought of ‘tired and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s vocabulary ’cause [kəz] it’s sort of dragged from outside and it’s it is ironic, you know; 0:31:11 “what a scorcher” I mean we u… (yes) we use that because [bɪkəs] Private Eye3 in particular has taught us that that is a good cliché) either (1:10:30 I’m coming more from a slightly different angle in them as much as I’m talking about words that uh I’ve either [ʌɪðə] used or have been used to me so or have heard) often (0:30:21 what happens a lot certainly in the way I speak is is is sort of self-consciously using often [ɒfən] Private Eye3 clichés and I mean in this one I thought of ‘tired and emotional, you know’ (yes) (yes) um which isn’t sort of I mean it’s not quite the same as being part of one’s vocabulary ’cause it’s sort of dragged from outside and it’s it is ironic, you know; 01:04:30 I must say within within um my group of friends the wives are often [ɒftən] uh quite often [ɒfən] referred to as ‘my people’) says (0:06:02 I wou… I probably wouldn’t say, “it’s a baking day” I I meant I assumed it was in the context of, you know, ’cause it says [sɛz] here ‘how do you feel’ it’s “I’m baking”; 0:23:35 and also slightly ironically ‘the other half’ um, you know, used in if if someone’s, you know, um says [sɛz] um, you know, “oh we’ve just had a swimming pool put in” or something like that you’d say “oh, the that’s how
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the other half live”; 0:34:36 it’s always really bugged me when people say ‘they’ are pregnant or a couple says [sɛz] ‘we’ are pregnant) GRAMMAR
DETERMINERS zero definite article19 (0:32:46 ‘pregnant’ or ‘up _ duff’ I’m afraid)
PRONOUNS plural subject us (1:17:35 us three are the same family but uh we’ve all sort of gone away to be educated and everything) indefinite one (0:00:35 yes, well I I think with a lot of these one’s first one’s first uh inclination was to just repeat the word that was already there but in a desperate attempt to get away from that I thought ‘rotten’ is probably what I usually say; 0:12:16 I think it is self-explanatory I know one’s not allowed to to say that sort of thing in these days of PC but it is one that’s passed into the language; 0:33:08 if they were if they were being very sort of, you know, (yes) um pompous with it (yes) one wou… would sort of ironically reflect the pomposity and say ‘with child’; 0:50:48 um so, you know, rather than trying to sort of find the appropriate word for their these two’s particular relationship one one tends to sort of avoid it)
DISCOURSE intensifier jolly (0:39:29 but it’s jolly damn close you’ve got to admit it I think it’s a ver… I think it’s the best of the words we’ve had so far) intensifier well (0:25:07 I would use it I’m really really embarrassed I would use it in that context (so he is she is?) yes, yes, ‘well pikey’ being the extreme) utterance internal like (0:08:48 again um ‘throw’ but also ‘chuck’ and probably ‘buzz’ (‘buzz’?) yes, which is sort of a more, you know, “buzz it over here” um if it’s a more, like, sort of um energetic throw (OK) sort of flat trajectory throw)
© Robinson, Herring, Gilbert Voices of the UK, 2009-2012 A British Library project funded by The Leverhulme Trust
19 This utterance is consciously ‘performed’.
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