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Title:

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

Shelfmark:

C1190/26/04

Recording date:

16.11.2004

Speakers: Lack, Ira, b. 1950 New Houghton, Nottinghamshire; male; pub landlord & ex-miner Martin, Alf, b. 1949 Mansfield; male; pub landlord & ex-miner Smedley, Rita, female; pub landlady

The three interviewees have lived in the Mansfield area all their lives. ELICITED LEXIS

○ see English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) ▼see Ey Up Mi Duck! Dialect of Derbyshire and the East Midlands (2000) ∆ see New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) « see Roger’s Profanisaurus: The Magna Farta (2007) ◊ see Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) ♦ see Urban Dictionary (online) ⌂ no previous source (with this sense) identified pleased (not discussed) tired (not discussed) unwell (not discussed) hot (not discussed) cold (not discussed) annoyed (not discussed) throw (not discussed) play truant (not discussed) sleep (not discussed) play a game (not discussed) hit hard (not discussed) clothes (not discussed) trousers (not discussed) child’s shoe pumps; plimsolls (suggested by interviewer, used by son, considered “posh”)

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mother mam gmother (not discussed) m partner my old man friend pal; mate; mucker (“how you going on, mucker?”); marrow [maɹə] (used by Geordies, “how you ganning, marrow?” used locally in past with Geordie miners) gfather (not discussed) forgot name (not discussed) kit of tools (not discussed) trendy flashy (“flashy twat”); tart (“looks a right tart, she does”) f partner our lass (used frequently); our Gert♦/Myrtle⌂ (i.e. “old-fashioned” name commonly used as term of affection) baby babby○; bairns (used by Geordies) rain heavily pissing it down toilet bog; lav; netty (used by Geordies, used locally in past with Geordie miners) walkway gennel (most common locally); jitty (suggested by interviewer, heard used); alley (used by son) long seat (not discussed) run water (not discussed) main room (not discussed) rain lightly (not discussed) rich (not discussed) left-handed (not discussed) unattractive foul; right ugly; ugly sod lack money skint; brassic (< brassic lint: skint, “Cockney”) drunk rat-arsed; bladdered; pissed pregnant up t’ duff; bun in the oven; preggers; preggy; in t’ club attractive smart; bit of all right; scrubs up well∆; “I’d gie○ her one”∆1, “she’s worth one”«2 (used by males of females); gorgeous insane barmy; crackers; nutter; not a full pint◊3 moody funny bugger (“he’s a funny bugger, he is”); mardy SPONTANEOUS LEXIS and all = as well, too (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all; 0:14:16 (worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you?) (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) well they perhaps think same about ourn and all (they seem to me more like sing, you know) (who Scousers?)) aught = anything (0:20:04 all those uh long footballer’s names and everything) yeah, that’s right I mean they they are good at aught like that, aren’t they?; 0:27:14 (‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat”) I didn’t put aught for that (things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does”) yeah, I didn’t put aught for that; 0:31:07 (I were gonna say I bet

1 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) records ‘give someone one’ in this sense. 2 Roger’s Profanisaurus: The Magna Farta (2007) includes ‘worth a one’ in definition of ‘shaggable’. 3 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) and Urban Dictionary (online) include examples of ‘not the full …’ in this sense, including ‘not the full pound/quid/ticket’ but not ‘not the full pint’.

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 2 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught; 0:37:50 aught above Watford Gap’s north, isn’t it? (aye, definitely)) aye = yes (0:04:21 I’d say that you wasn’t I’d say you wasn’t from Derbyshire (where would you say I was from?) […] (somewhere posh) somewhere posh, aye; 0:04:58 (that’s how they talk, isn’t it?) yeah (can’t talk posh down t’ pit, no) no, we can’t tell that on t’ mic (no) (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) (oh aye) it is aye, aye, can’t say it on there (I shouldn’t ask about that one); 0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d gie her one, wouldn’t you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of t’ missus, like) (oh aye, yeah); 0:37:50 (aught above Watford Gap’s north, isn’t it?) aye, definitely) bob = one shilling in old UK currency (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’) Brummy = person from / dialect of Birmingham (0:14:16 worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you? (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) (well they perhaps think same about ourn and all) (they seem to me more like sing, you know) who Scousers?) bugger = nuisance, so-and-so (0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all)) bugger = = mild expletive (0:31:14 (but you did try, did you?) aye, I tried for a bit I thought, “bugger this I can’t (for an hour) thought, “bugger this I can’t talk like that”) by = past (0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d gie her one, wouldn’t you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of t’ missus, like) (oh aye, yeah)) call a spade a spade = to speak plainly or bluntly (0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to- earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do we? (no)) cleat = wedge (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, isn’t there? (yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that) cock = common local form of address (0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for t’ brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were me area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for me interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”; 0:33:36 (I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it?) yeah (you say mainly ‘duck’) ‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again (yeah, ‘flower’) ‘old lad’) Cockney = person from London (0:42:21 well we know someo… anybody comes up here you know straightway they’re a Cockney (yeah) straightaway, yeah, yeah (oh aye, you can tell Cockneys, can’t you, they don’t like no head on their ale, do they?)) duck = common local form of address (0:02:10 if I’m talking to people that’s not from round here uh and and you say summat like ‘duck’ straightaway, “you’re you’re from Notts, aren’t you?”; 0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:33:36 I mean sometimes

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 3 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it? (yeah) you say mainly ‘duck’ (‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again) yeah, ‘flower’ (‘old lad’)) eff = to swear, use word ‘fuck’ (0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down t’ pit in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down t’ pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that) eff and blind = to use word ‘fuck’, swear frequently (0:10:06 but if you were out you had to respect women that were round you I mean if if you were men men together you’d eff and blind, you know what I mean, but if a woman come and sat with you you’d control it you’d control it) else = otherwise, or else (0:39:50 if you go in Chesterfield drinking you’ve got try and alter your accent (yeah) ’cause else they know straightaway he’s from Mansfield (yeah) all of a sudden you’ve got about four lads round you) ey up▼ = hello (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:38:36 we can walk down town come down town and we see […] “ey up, are you all right, ey up, are you all right how you going on, youth?” “all right, mate, yeah”) fag = cigarette (0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:24:03 (you know instead of saying ‘thank you’ they say ‘ta’) (‘ta’ ‘thank you very much’) (yeah) “want a fag?” “ta, I’ll hae one”) folks = people (0:27:57 (yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” “all right”) but you see a lot of folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because there w… a lot of Geordies have been down this way; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in t’ other parts of t’ country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) flower = common local form of address (0:33:36 I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it? (yeah) you say mainly ‘duck’ (‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again) yeah, ‘flower’ (‘old lad’)) gaffer = foreman (0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for t’ brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were me area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for me interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) gan○ = to go (0:27:57 yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” “all right” (but you see a lot of folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because there w… a lot of Geordies have been down this way)) Geordie = person from / dialect of Newcastle upon Tyne (0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down t’ pit and I talk a bit of Geordie now and again; 0:25:31 you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to t’ netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on t’ door (toilet door); 0:27:57 yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” “all right” (but you see a lot of folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because there w… a lot of Geordies have been down this way)) gie○ = to give (0:19:32 local radio people like like you get your local ra… uh get local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were gieing t’ weather, “it’s gonna be pissing it down today” (yeah) you couldn’t say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them sort of words (no) you’d have to curb them words, wouldn’t you?; 0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d gie her one, wouldn’t you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of t’ missus, like) (oh aye, yeah))

4 British actors Gareth Hunt (real name Alan Leonard Hunt 1942-2007) & Lewis Collins (1946-2013).

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 4 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings gob = mouth (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they? (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all)) (look at someone) gone out5 = to look confused, to wear facial expression implying speaker has said something ridiculous/insane (0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t even know what a wireless were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put wireless on” they’d look at you gone out) hae○ = to have (0:01:46 (well we shorten words) that’s right shorten (and we and we sort of put them all together as well like, “get out of here”) yeah (as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than) yeah, “hae you got her with you where is she?”; 0:24:03 (you know instead of saying ‘thank you’ they say ‘ta’) (‘ta’ ‘thank you very much’) (yeah) “want a fag?” “ta, I’ll hae one”; 0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go out at night you say, “I’m gonna hae a quick wash and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t hae somebody doing t’ national news speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean) learn = to teach (0:35:40 and I were right proud of taking them out ’cause they’d sound sounded right posh and I used to say, “go on say ‘hello’ to this” “hello” say, “that’s my nieces, they are, I’ve learnt them to talk right like that”) lingo = dialect/jargon/slang of particular speaker group (0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you you lived with us you s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to t’ lingo) love = common local form of address (0:33:36 I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it? (yeah) you say mainly ‘duck’ (‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again) yeah, ‘flower’ (‘old lad’)) mam = mother (0:06:41 (old miner’ll never swear in front of a woman) no, I never heard my dad or me mam swear and I daren’t in front of them; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; mesen○ = myself (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’) oh aye○ = yes, confirming or contradicting (0:04:58 that’s how they talk, isn’t it? (yeah) can’t talk posh down t’ pit, no (no, we can’t tell that on t’ mic) no (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) oh aye (it is aye, aye, can’t say it on there) (I shouldn’t ask about that one); 0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down t’ pit in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down t’ pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, isn’t there? (yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that; 0:06:19 (other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they?) oh aye (oh aye) (if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know) oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole” (yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would); 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d gie her one, wouldn’t you?”) yeah (‘wouldn’t you’) yeah (that’s it, aye) (out of ears… uh earshot of t’ missus, like) oh aye, yeah; 0:31:07 (I were gonna say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know,

5 ‘Can you speak Lest-oh?’ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2005/01/17/dictionary_leicester_feature.shtml) includes ‘gone out’ in this sense; see also ‘Adjusting to Life in Leicester’ (University of Leicester at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/law/undergraduate/new-students/adjusting-to-life-in-leicester).

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(that’s it) no airs and graces or aught; 0:42:21 (well we know someo… anybody comes up here you know straightway they’re a Cockney) (yeah) (straightaway, yeah, yeah) oh aye, you can tell Cockneys, can’t you, they don’t like no head on their ale, do they?) old hundred⌂ = swear-word, foul language (0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down t’ pit in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down t’ pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that) old lad = common local form of address to male (0:33:36 (I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it?) yeah (you say mainly ‘duck’) ‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again (yeah, ‘flower’) ‘old lad’) our = affectionate term for family member or partner (0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’) ourn = ours (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:14:16 (worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you?) (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) well they perhaps think same about ourn and all (they seem to me more like sing, you know) (who Scousers?)) over the moon = pleased, delighted (0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over t’ moon I were I were t’ local hero) piss oneself∆ = to laugh uncontrollably (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’) Queen’s English = popular term for Standard English and/or Received Pronunciation (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all) right = very, really (0:01:19 (do you think you talk like Mansfield people?) (yes) oh aye, spot on we do, don’t we? (oh, I think we all do) sounds right rough when you listen to it I think, doesn’t it? (it does we sound common); 0:10:22 women swear worse than men in here right rough tarts come in here sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat” (I didn’t put aught for that) things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught for that); 0:31:07 (I were gonna say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught; 0:35:40 and I were right proud of taking them out ’cause they’d sound sounded right posh and I used to say, “go on say ‘hello’ to this” “hello” say, “that’s my nieces, they are, I’ve learnt them to talk right like that”; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in t’ other parts of t’ country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) right as rain = fine, perfectly acceptable (0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on strike with them they they were right as rain right as rain with us)

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 6 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings scab = colleague who refuses to join strike (0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over t’ moon I were I were t’ local hero) Scouser = person from / dialect of Liverpool (0:14:16 worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you? (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) (well they perhaps think same about ourn and all) (they seem to me more like sing, you know) who Scousers?) slapper = useless oaf (0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for t’ brewery (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve gotta” you know, “gotta make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know) Sloppy Joe = T-shirt (0:28:38 easier to say ‘pumps’, isn’t it, it’s quicker same as a T-shirt (‘T-shirt’) we used to call them ‘Slop…’ these they used to call them ‘Sloppy Joes’ when I were a kid) smart-arse = smug, conceited (0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all)) snap = snack, packed lunch (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, isn’t there? (yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that) sneck = door handle, latch (0:25:31 you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to t’ netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on t’ door (toilet door)) summat∆ = something (0:02:10 if I’m talking to people that’s not from round here uh and and you say summat like ‘duck’ straightaway, “you’re you’re from Notts, aren’t you?”; 0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down t’ pit in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down t’ pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat; 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do we? (no); 0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:29:03 if you try to make us say things like somebody else you’re (sounds stupid, don’t it?) you’re taking summat away from somebody, aren’t you? (yeah) you know what I mean (sounds stupid) it’s like pinching summat or trying to pinch summat) sup (up) = to drink (up) (0:22:39 that’s what I do at end of t’ night, “go on I’ve had your money piss off fup up and suck off”6) ta = thank you (0:24:03 you know instead of saying ‘thank you’ they say ‘ta’ (‘ta’ ‘thank you very much’) (yeah) (“want a fag?” “ta, I’ll hae one”)) take (the) piss out of = to make fun of, mock (0:15:30 when I went up uh Barnsley same as I was telling you about that ‘duck’ bit I mean they used take piss out of me that’s what they used do) theirsens○ = themselves (0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat)

6 Spoonerism, presumably, for ‘sup up and fuck off’ used by Alf as humorous way of drawing attention to closing time.

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 7 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings wireless = radio set (0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t even know what a wireless were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put wireless on” they’d look at you gone out) young’un∆ = young one (0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out) yoursen○ = yourself (0:09:45 just got be yoursen, haven’t you, simple as that (say that again) you’ve got be yoursen ‘self’ (‘you’ve got to be yourself’ he means) got be yoursen; 0:36:00 (it does sound that way, don’t it?) (rough, like, it does sound rough) (it does sound rough but it’s just how we’ve always spoke it but) you you watch a video of yoursen and you s…, “oh Jesus, I don’t talk like that”) Yankee = American (0:43:44 Kevin Costner7 that twat trying to speak like Robin Hood8 a Yankee can’t talk like a Mansfield lad) youth▼ = form of address (0:38:36 we can walk down town come down town and we see […] “ey up, are you all right, ey up, are you all right how you going on, youth?” “all right, mate, yeah”) PHONOLOGY

KIT [ɪ] (0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated [ɛmɪgɹɛɪtɪd] to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty [fɪftɪ] (go on keep going) fifty-summat [fɪftɪsʊməʔ]; 0:13:45 we’d pick [pɪk] a bit [bɪʔ] of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down the pit [pɪʔ] and I talk a bit [bɪʔ] of Geordie now and again; 0:15:21 if we listen [lɪsən] to anybody say from down south on telly we probably think [θɪŋk] that sounds quite nice but I’d love to know what they think [θɪŋk] of how we sound) (0:04:11 everybody’s entitled [ɛntaɛt ] to speak how they like, aren’t they, you know, if that’s your how the way you speak that’s it; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were my area manager I spoke to him exactly [ɛgzaklɪ] like this but when I went for my interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) give (0:19:32 local radio people like like you get your local ra… uh get local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were giving [giʲɪn] the weather, “it’s going to be pissing it down today” (yeah) you couldn’t say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them sort of words (no) you’d have to curb them words, wouldn’t you?; 0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give [giː] her one, wouldn’t you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of the missus, like) (oh aye, yeah)) DRESS [ɛ] (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember [ɹɪmɛmbə] with my dad he whenever anybody [wɛnɛvəɹ ɛnɪbɒdɪ] come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and my dad’s from Pleasley [plɛzlɪ] their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mysen [mɪsɛn] listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless [blɛs] him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together [təgɛðə] and he he emigrated [ɛmɪgɹɛɪtɪd] to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty [twɛntɪ] he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat; 0:19:32 local radio people like like you get [gɛʔ] your local ra… uh get [gɛʔ] local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were giving the weather, [wɛðə] “it’s going to be pissing it down today” (yeah)

7 US actor, producer & director (b.1955) who played lead role in US film ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ (1991). 8 Heroic English folklore figure closely associated in some traditions with Nottinghamshire.

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 8 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings you couldn’t say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them [ðɛm] sort of words (no) you’d have to curb them [ðɛm] words, wouldn’t you?) TRAP [a] (0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace [palɪs] Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually [akʃəli] put it in the panto, [pantəʊ] you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ and that [ðaʔ] I put I put ‘flashy’ [flaʃi] but you would say, you know, “flashy twat” [flaʃi twaʔ] (I didn’t put aught for that [ðaʔ]) things like that, [ðaʔ] you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught for that [ðaʔ]); 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent [aksənt] when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) have (0:01:46 (well we shorten words) that’s right shorten (and we and we sort of put them all together as well like, “get out of here”) yeah (as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than) yeah, “have [ɛ] you got her with you where is she?”; 0:24:03 (you know instead of saying ‘thank you’ they say ‘ta’) (‘ta’ ‘thank you very much’) (yeah) “want a fag?” “ta, I’ll have [ɛ] one”; 0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go out at night you say, “I’m going to have [ɛɪ] a quick wash and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have [ɛ] somebody doing the national news speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:32:49 interviews are a good one actually, yeah, you have [av] got try and be careful) LOT [ɒ] (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not [nɒʔ] a ‘bath’) think they’ve got [gɒʔ] a gob [gɒb] full of plums, don’t they? (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d gie her one, wouldn’t you?”) (yeah) ‘wouldn’t you’ (yeah) (that’s it, aye) out of ears… uh earshot [ɪːʃɒt] of the missus, like (oh aye, yeah); 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job [ʤɒb] (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have somebody doing the national news speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean) STRUT [ʊ] (0:03:21 well my pub’s [pʊbz] straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming [kʊmɪn] in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ [dʊk] they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ [dʊk] on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) think they’ve got a gob full of plums, [plʊmz] don’t they? (that’s the posh buggers [bʊgəz] that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:10:22 women swear worse than men in here right rough [ɹʊf] tarts come in here sometimes oops but some lovely [lʊvlɪ] customers [kʊstəməz] though as well; 0:13:01 my cousin [kʊzən] we we were brought brought up [ʊp] together and he he emigrated to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat [fɪftɪsʊməʔ]) ONE (0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over the place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young ones [jʊŋ ənz] managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out; 0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, [wɒn] wouldn’t you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of the missus, like) (oh aye, yeah); 0:23:08 but I get one [wɒn] or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve

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all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:32:49 interviews are a good one [gʊd ] actually, yeah, you have got try and be careful; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once [wʊns] he were my area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for my interview I spoke a little bit different once [wʊns] I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once [wʊns] they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero) FOOT [ʊ] (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling [pʊlɪn] their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:24:38 (all sorts of things we say for that) yeah, ‘not a full [fʊɫ] pint’; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put [pʊʔ] I put [pʊʔ] ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat” (I didn’t put aught [pʊɾ əʊʔ] for that) things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks [lʊks] a right tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught [pʊɾ əʊʔ] for that); 0:43:44 Kevin Costner7 that twat trying to speak like Robin Hood8 [ɹɒbɪn ʊd] a Yankee can’t talk like a Mansfield lad) BATH [a] (0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing [lafɪn]; 0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ [bɑːθ] it’s a ‘bath’ [baθ] not a ‘bath’ [bɑːθ] (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:14:51 (sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying) (no) (like if they come up here they wouldn’t understand half of what we were saying) (they wouldn’t understand us, no, they wouldn’t you’re right) they reckon we talk fast [fast] mind, you talk fast, [fast] don’t you?; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked [ast] earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) CLOTH [ɒ] (0:04:21 I’d say that you wasn’t I’d say you wasn’t from Derbyshire (where would you say I was from?) […] (somewhere posh [pɒʃ]) somewhere posh, [pɒʃ] aye; 0:28:05 uh a lot of Geordies have been down this way so bits like that we I suppose we’ve, like, pinched off [ɒf] them, haven’t we really) wash (0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go out at night you say, “I’m going to have a quick wash [wɛʃ] and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo) NURSE [əː > eː] (0:04:52 we’re all working [wəːkɪŋ] class, you know, all mine mining family (well it’s a big mining place, isn’t it?) I am I were a miner everybody were a miner in my family; 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to- earth [daːntəːθ] very down-to-earth [daːntəːθ] in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do we? (no); 0:19:32 local radio people like like you get your local ra… uh get local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were giving the weather, “it’s going to be pissing it down today” (yeah) you couldn’t say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them sort of words [wəːdz] (no) you’d have to curb [keːb] them words, [wəːdz] wouldn’t you?)

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first, shirt, were, worse, worth (0:04:52 we’re all working class, you know, all mine mining family (well it’s a big mining place, isn’t it?) I am I were a [wəɹ ə] miner everybody were a [wəɹ ə] miner in my family; 0:07:01 in fact I think some of the young girls are worse [weːs] than the boys (worse [wɒs] than men women) yeah; 0:10:22 women swear worse [weːs] than men in here right rough tarts come in here sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t even know what a wireless were, [wəː] would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put wireless on” they’d look at you gone out; 0:11:31 used to find out where the fire were [wɒ] put your hands down where the fire were [wɒ] so you could get your bum on it (yeah) (oh, aye); 0:20:43 you know if you’ve been talking to somebody that’s posh you know when they’ve gone you say, (“posh twat”) “Christ he were [wə] bloody posh, weren’t [wəːnt] he?” you know, and you say that but I mean it don’t bother you while you’re actually talking to them; 0:20:55 (so there you are we’re going to say you when you’ve gone) (“wasn’t she a posh twat?”) (yeah) “worth [wɒθ] one, though”; 0:28:38 easier to say ‘pumps’, isn’t it, it’s quicker same as a T-shirt [tiːʃɒt] (‘T-shirt’ [tiːʃɒt]) we used to call them ‘Slop…’ these they used to call them ‘Sloppy Joes’ when I were a kid; 0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go out at night you say, “I’m going to have a quick wash and put a clean shirt [ʃɒt] on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first [fəːst] had a very first [fəːst] interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were my area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for my interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”; 0:40:39 my first [fɒst] pub were at [wəɹ əʔ] Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all [wəɹ ɔːɫ] out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on [wəɹ ɒn] strike with them they they were right as rain right as rain with us) heard (0:06:41 (old miner’ll never swear in front of a woman) no, I never heard [eːd] my dad or my mam swear and I daren’t in front of them; 0:42:50 haven’t heard [ɪəd] ‘outhouse’ for a long time (‘outhouse’) that’s a building that were outside that you put all your stuff in) FLEECE [iː] (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, [kliːts] isn’t there? (yeah, ‘cleats’ [kliːts] and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece [piːs] of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ [kliːt] (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, like, put a cleat [kliːt] in and that; 0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English [kwiːnz ɪŋglɪʃ] round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all; 0:30:41 see, [siː] them them people [ ] who’s reading the news [ɹiːdɪnʔ nuːz] and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can) been (0:00:40 I’m the landlord of the Bowl in Hand I’ve been [bɪn] here nine years and I were born and bred in Mansfield; 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been [bɪn] there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat; 0:17:11 like some places you’ll go and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve been [bɪn] told if uh if you go to parts of Wales they’ll start speaking Welsh; 0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been [bɪn] over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but

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I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been [bɪn] out a full year oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero) Pleasley (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with my dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and my dad’s from Pleasley [plɛzlɪ] their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mysen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’) FACE [ɛɪ > ɛi] (0:04:52 (we’re all working class, you know, all mine mining family) well it’s a big mining place, [plɛis] isn’t it? (I am I were a miner everybody were a miner in my family); 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated [ɛmɪgɹɛɪtɪd] to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age [ɛɪʤ] fifty (go on keep going) fifty- summat ; 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade [spɛɪd] a spade [spɛɪd] if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do we? (no); 0:17:11 like some places [plɛɪsɪz] you’ll go and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve been told if uh if you go to parts of Wales [wɛɪʊz] they’ll start speaking Welsh; 0:31:07 I were going to say [sɛɪ] I bet you still made [mɛɪd] as many sales [sɛɪɫz] just talking, yeah (oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down- to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces [ɛːzəŋgɹɛɪsɪz] or aught)) ain’t (0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) (I’m not old enough for any yet) I ain’t [ɛɪnʔ] got any (you liar) (you liar) only nine (he don’t know what’s causing it)) always (0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always [ɔːləs] say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’) make, take, Rainworth (0:15:30 when I went up uh Barnsley same as I was telling you about that ‘duck’ bit I mean they used take [tɛk] piss out of me that’s what they used do; 0:29:03 if you try to make [mɛk] us say things like somebody else you’re (sounds stupid, don’t it?) you’re taking [tɛkɪn] summat away from somebody, aren’t you? (yeah) you know what I mean (sounds stupid) it’s like pinching summat or trying to pinch summat; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for the brewery (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make [mɛk] them think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know; 0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth [ɹɛɪnwəθ] they call it ‘Rainworth’ [ɹɛɪnwəθ] but we say ‘Rainworth’ [ɹɛnəθ]; 0:35:40 and I were right proud of taking [tɛkɪn] them out ’cause they’d sound sounded right posh and I used to say, “go on say ‘hello’ to this” “hello” say, “that’s my nieces, they are, I’ve learnt them to talk right like that”) they (0:12:35 well up at the pit they [ðɪ] were all Poles and Geordies down there, wasn’t they? [ðə] (yeah, that’s right, yeah) hell of a lot of Poles and Geordies but they [ðɪ] soon picked our language up, you know; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they [ði] are in Notts (yeah) we’re only a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so; 0:25:31 you see, Geordies they [ðɛɪ] say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to the netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on the door (toilet door); 0:28:38 easier to say ‘pumps’, isn’t it, it’s quicker

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same as a T-shirt (‘T-shirt’) we used to call them ‘Slop…’ these they [ðɪ] used to call them ‘Sloppy Joes’ when I were a kid; 0:30:30 “blow him up they [ðɛ] want kill him, like” you know what I mean, they wouldn’t let you do that on the on the BBC, would they, [ðɛ] say they’d [ðɛd] say, “you can’t do that”; 0:34:21 yeah, mine mine’s just started talk... well a lot on them’s talking and they [ði] they’ve [ðɪv] all got their own slang shall we say; 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really get they [ðɪ] don’t really get together like we do, do they? [ðɪ]; 0:42:04 if you went down London straightaway they’d [ðɛd] say, [...] “he’s from up” they’d [ðɛd] say, “he’s from up north” they’d [ðɛd] know straightaway that you were from up north, wouldn’t they? [ðə]) PALM [ɑː] (0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them all together as well like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather [ɹɑːðə] than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t [kɑːnʔ] get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:14:51 sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying (no) like if they come up here they wouldn’t understand half [ɑːf] of what we were saying (they wouldn’t understand us, no, they wouldn’t you’re right) (they reckon we talk fast mind, you talk fast, don’t you?)) THOUGHT [ɔː] (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks [tɔːks] and all [ən ɔːɫ]; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all [ɔːɫ] at school kids at school we were taught [tɔːt] to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk [tɔːk]; 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought [bɹɔːʔ] brought [bɹɔːt] up together and he he emigrated to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat) alter, fault (0:09:03 it’s not your fault [fɒɫʔ] that you speak like that, is it, it’s how you’ve been brought up; 0:39:35 it’s like if you used to at one time if you used to go to Sheffield try and get in a nightclub oh they used to hate Mansfield (oh aye, and Chesterfield) so you had to al… [ɒɫ] try and al… [ɒɫ] you knew you had to try and alter [ɒɫtə] your accent to get in a nightclub; 0:39:50 if you go in Chesterfield drinking you’ve got try and alter [ɒɫtə] your accent (yeah) ’cause else they know straightaway he’s from Mansfield (yeah) all of a sudden you’ve got about four lads round you) aught, thought (0:20:04 all those uh long footballer’s names and everything) yeah, that’s right I mean they they are good at aught [əʊʔ] like that, aren’t they?; 0:27:14 (‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat”) I didn’t put aught [əʊʔ] for that (things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does”) yeah, I didn’t put aught [əʊʔ] for that; 0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught [əʊt]; 0:31:14 (but you did try, did you?) aye, I tried for a bit I thought, [θəʊʔ] “bugger this I can’t (for an hour) thought, [θəʊt] “bugger this I can’t talk like that”; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were my area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for my interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, [θɔːʔ] “that’s

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it got it now, cock, talk how I like”; 0:37:50 aught [əʊʔ] above Watford Gap’s north, isn’t it? (aye, definitely)) (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” [watə] ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, like, put a cleat in and that; 0:08:27 like somebody said, “why do you say water?” [watə] I said, “well spell it for me” there’s no ‘O’ in ‘water’ [wɔːtə] it’s ‘water’ [watə] (that’s right) it’s as simple as that) GOAT [əʊ > ɔʊ ~ ɔː] (0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you you lived with us you s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to the lingo [lɪŋgəʊ]; 0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, [jənəʊ] Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over [ɒvə] but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, [jənəʊ] can have a fag when nobody’s [nəʊbədɪz] watching if they’re not supposed [səpəʊzd] to smoke [sməʊk] or summat; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, [ɔː] scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh [ɔː] they were over [ɒvə] the moon I were I were the local [lɔʊkəɫ] hero [ɪːɹəʊ]) go(ing) (to) (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going [gʊɪn] on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:17:11 like some places you’ll go [gʊ] and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve been told if uh if you go [gʊ] to parts of Wales they’ll start speaking Welsh; 0:18:54 but then again if you’re going to [gʊnə] be on the BBC people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of the people wouldn’t understand a load of what we were saying; 0:29:15 I suppose they’ve got do for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go [gʊ] somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do that; 0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go [guː] out at night you say, “I’m going to [gʊnə] have a quick wash and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:31:07 I were going to [gʊnə] say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah (oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know) (that’s it) (no airs and graces or aught); 0:39:35 it’s like if you used to at one time if you used to go [gʊ] to Sheffield try and get in a nightclub oh they used to hate Mansfield (oh aye, and Chesterfield) so you had to al… try and al… you knew you had to try and alter your accent to get in nightclub) home, only, over (0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, [ɒvəɹ ɪʔ] you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got home [ɒm] ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’ [ɒm]) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over [əʊə] the place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young ones managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in

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Notts (yeah) we’re only [ɒni] a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so; 0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over [ɒvə] but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) (I’m not old enough for any yet) I ain’t got any (you liar) (you liar) only [əʊnɪ] nine (he don’t know what’s causing it); 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over [ɒvə] the moon I were I were the local hero) no, <-ow> (0:22:27 you say things like, “well he’s rat-arsed he’s getting no [nə] more”, you know (that’s right) it’s ’cause he’s drunk and he’s got to go; 0:27:57 yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, [maɹə] aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” [maɹə] “all right” (but you see a lot of folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because there w… a lot of Geordies have been down this way)) GOAL [ɔʊ > əʊ] (0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, [ɑːsɔʊɫ] yeah, “arsehole” [ɑːsɔʊɫ]) yeah, “arsehole”, [ɑːsɔʊɫ] yeah, they would; 0:10:06 but if you were out you had to respect women that were round you I mean if if you were men men together you’d eff and blind, you know what I mean, but if a woman come and sat with you you’d control [kəntɹəʊɫ] it you’d control [kəntɹɔʊɫ] it; 0:12:35 well up at the pit they were all Poles [pɔʊɫz] and Geordies down there, wasn’t they? (yeah, that’s right, yeah) hell of a lot of Poles [pɔʊɫz] and Geordies but they soon picked our language up, you know) <-old> (0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down the pit in the old [əʊd] the old [ɛʊd] hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down the pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, [tɔʊɫd ʔ ɹuːf] like, put a cleat in and that; 0:06:41 old [ɔʊɫd] miner’ll never swear in front of a woman (no, I never heard my dad or my mam swear and I daren’t in front of them); 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold [ɛʊd] back (no) do we? (no); 0:17:11 like some places you’ll go and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve been told [tɛʊd] if uh if you go to parts of Wales they’ll start speaking Welsh; 0:24:56 oh my old [əʊd] man used to call me that, yeah, ‘our Myrtle’; 0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) I’m not old [əʊd] enough for any yet (I ain’t got any) you liar (you liar) (only nine) (he don’t know what’s causing it)) GOOSE [uː] (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used [juːst] to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, [ɹuːf] like, put a cleat in and that; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do [duː] it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have somebody doing the national news [duːɪnʔ naʃnəɫ nuːz] speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview [ɪntəvjuː] for

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 15 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings the brewery [bɹuːəɹɪ] (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know) do (0:04:41 imagine me and Alf in Eton talking how we do [dʊ]; 0:15:30 when I went up uh Barnsley same as I was telling you about that ‘duck’ bit I mean they used take piss out of me that’s what they used do [dʊ]; 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do [dʊ] we? (no); 0:29:15 I suppose they’ve got do [dʊ] for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do [dʊ] that; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do [duː] it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have somebody doing the national news speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:30:30 “blow him up they want kill him, like” you know what I mean, they wouldn’t let you do [dʊ] that on the on the BBC, would they, say they’d say, “you can’t do [dʊ] that”; 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, [duː] do they? [də ðɪ]) school (0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school [skuːəɫ] kids at school [skuːəɫ] we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk) you (0:13:26 it’s where you [jə] live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you [jəʊ] you [jəʊ] lived with us you [jə] s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d [jəd] soon get used to it) same as I say you [jə] get to the lingo; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in [jɪn] I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so; 0:22:03 as you [jə] were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, wouldn’t you?” [jəʊ] (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’ [jəʊ]) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of the missus, like) (oh aye, yeah); 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked [jast] earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) PRICE [ɑɪ > aɛ ~ aɪ] (0:04:52 we’re all working class, you know, all mine [maɛn] mining [maɛnɪn] family (well it’s a big mining place, [maɛnɪm plɛis] isn’t it?) I am I were a miner [maɛnə] everybody were a miner [maɛnə] in my family; 0:15:21 if we listen to anybody say from down south on telly we probably think that sounds quite [kwaɛt] nice [naɛs] but I’d love to know what they think of how we sound; 0:24:38 (all sorts of things we say for that) yeah, ‘not a full pint’ [pɑɪnt]; 0:39:35 it’s like [lɑɪk] if you used to at one time [tɑɪm] if you used to go to Sheffield try [tɹaɪ] and get in a nightclub [nɑɪʔklʊb] oh they used to hate Mansfield (oh aye, and Chesterfield) so you had to al… try [tɹɑɪ] and al… you knew you had to try [tɹaɪ] and alter your accent to get in nightclub [nɑɪʔklʊb]; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike [stɹɑɪk] and now from Mansfield of course they find [fɑɪnd] out ex- miner [ɛksmɑɪnə] but when they knew I were on strike [stɹɑɪk] with them they they were right as rain [ɹɛɪt əz ɹɛɪn] right as rain [ɹɛɪt əz ɹɛɪn] with us; 0:41:31 I used to work with some Sutton girls and I can’t I know she they used to say, “we’re going out tonight” [tənaɛʔ] […] and “down our house” it totally different to us […] I can’t think of a word that sort of (I can’t) describes [dɪkɹnaɛbz] how)

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<-ight> (0:01:19 (do you think you talk like Mansfield people?) (yes) oh aye, spot on we do, don’t we? (oh, I think we all do) sounds right [ɹɛɪʔ] rough when you listen to it I think, doesn’t it? (it does we sound common); 0:09:38 well you do, don’t you, if you try and put it on, you know, you don’t sound right [ɹaɛt] anyway; 0:10:22 women swear worse than men in here right [ɹɛɪʔ] rough tarts come in here sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat” (I didn’t put aught for that) things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right [ɹɛɪʔ] tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught for that); 0:27:57 yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” “all right” [ɔːɹiːt]9 (but you see a lot of folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because there w… a lot of Geordies have been down this way); 0:29:15 I suppose they’ve got do for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [ɹɛɪʔ] [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do that; 0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right [ɹɛɪt] down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught; 0:32:41 (well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for the brewery) yeah, that’s right [ɹaɛʔ] (that were it, yeah) (and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know); 0:39:35 it’s like if you used to at one time if you used to go to Sheffield try and get in a nightclub [nɑɪʔklʊb] oh they used to hate Mansfield (oh aye, and Chesterfield) so you had to al… try and al… you knew you had to try and alter your accent to get in nightclub [nɑɪʔklʊb]; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on strike with them they they were right as rain [ɹɛɪt əz ɹɛɪn] right as rain with us [ɹɛɪt əz ɹɛɪn]) my (0:03:21 well my [maɛ] pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:06:41 (old miner’ll never swear in front of a woman) no, I never heard my [maɛ] dad or my [mɪ] mam swear and I daren’t in front of them; 0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with my [mɪ] dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and my [mɪ] dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mysen [mɪsɛn] listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my [maɛ] youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my [maɛ] son he says ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were my [mi] area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for my [mi] interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) fire, liar, retired, wire(less) (0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t even know what a wireless [waɛləs] were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put wireless [waɛləs] on” they’d look at you gone out; 0:11:31 used to find out where the fire [faɪə] were put your hands down where the fire [faɪə] were so you could get your bum on it (yeah) (oh, aye); 0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) I’m not old enough for any yet (I ain’t got any) you liar [laɪə] (you liar [laɪə]) (only nine) (he don’t know what’s causing it); 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired [ɹɪtaɪəd] now, like, but once he were my area

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manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for my interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) CHOICE [ɔɪ] (0:02:02 and we always joi…, like, join [ʤɔɪn] it together, don’t we really? (yeah); 0:07:01 in fact I think some of the young girls are worse than the boys [bɔɪz] (worse than men women) yeah; 0:25:31 (you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to the netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on the door) toilet [tɔɪləʔ] door) MOUTH [aː] (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English round [ɹaːnd] here, you see, that’s how [aː] she talks and all; 0:14:16 worse accent than us, Brummies, isn’t it it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you? (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) (well they perhaps think same about [əbaːt] ourn [aːn] and all) (they seem to me more like sing, you know) who Scousers? [skaːsəz]; 0:15:21 if we listen to anybody say from down [daːn] south [saːθ] on telly we probably think that sounds [saːndz] quite nice but I’d love to know what they think of how [aː] we sound [saːnd]; 0:38:36 we can walk down [daːn] town [taːn] come down [daːn] town [taːn] and we see […] “ey up, are you all right, ey up, are you all right how [aː] you going on, youth?” “all right, mate, yeah”) found, (New) Houghton (0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ [ʊfən] so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton [nuː aʊʔ ] is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found [fʊn] out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found [fʊn] out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero) hour, nowadays, our(n), shower (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with my dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house [aʊəɹ aːs] he’d try and talk posh to them and my dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, [aːn] wasn’t it […] I used to piss mysen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:10:59 I mean nowadays [naɛdɛɪz] kids wouldn’t even know what a wireless were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put wireless on” they’d look at you gone out; 0:14:16 (worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you?) (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) well they perhaps think same about ourn [aːn] and all (they seem to me more like sing, you know) (who Scousers?); 0:17:48 (Sutton’s got a funny accent they are they’re totally different […] and it’s only what t… two mile away) (yeah) we’d say ‘our house’ [aːɹ aːs] but if you come from Sutton they’d say ‘our house’ [ɛːɹ ɛːs]; 0:24:56 oh my old man used to call me that, yeah, ‘our [aː] Myrtle’; 0:27:03 I mean our [aː] Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’; 0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go out at night you say, “I’m going to have a quick wash and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower [ʃaʊə] shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:31:14 (but you did try, did you?) (aye, I tried for a bit I thought, “bugger this I can’t) for an hour [aʊə] (thought, “bugger this I can’t talk like that”); 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent [aːɹ aksənt] when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”; 0:41:31

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I used to work with some Sutton girls and I can’t I know she they used to say, “we’re going out [ɛːt] tonight” […] and “down our house” [dɛːn ɛːɹ ɛːs] it totally different to us […] I can’t think of a word that sort of (I can’t) describes how) Woodhouse (0:34:48 (’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it”) (where the fuck’s that?) (yeah, they do) same as Woodhouse [wʊdəs] we say ‘Woodhouse’ [wʊdəs] (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’ [wʊdəs]) it’s ‘Woodhouse’ [wʊdhaʊs] but we say ‘Woodhouse’ [wʊdəs] (‘Woodhouse’ [wʊdəs] and ‘Warsop’) […] (Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’)) NEAR [ɪː ~ ɪə] (00:10:22 women swear worse than men in here [ɪə] right rough tarts come in here [ɪə] sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year [jɪː] down the pit and I talk a bit of Geordie now and again; 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, wouldn’t you?”) (yeah) ‘wouldn’t you’ (yeah) (that’s it, aye) out of ears… [ɪːz] uh earshot [ɪːʃɒt] of the missus, like (oh aye, yeah); 0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading the news and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer [vɪə] from that whereas we can; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really [ɹɪːli] interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us [ɪːɹ ʊz] when I hear us [ɪːɹ ʊz] on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, [ɪː] mate”; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year [jɪː] full year out, [jɪːɹ aːʔ] like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year [jɪə] oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero [ɪːɹəʊ]) SQUARE [ɛː > eː] (0:04:21 I’d say that you wasn’t I’d say you wasn’t from Derbyshire (where would you say I was from?) […] (somewhere [sʊmwɛː] posh) somewhere [sʊmwɛː] posh, aye; 0:10:22 women swear [sweː] worse than men in here right rough tarts come in here sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces [ɛːzəŋgɹɛɪsɪz] or aught; 0:43:07 if we’d’ve been a little bit more prepared [pɹɪpɛːd] we might’ve thought of something) there, their, they’re (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their [ði] head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:12:35 well up at the pit they were all Poles and Geordies down there, [ðɪə] wasn’t they? (yeah, that’s right, yeah) hell of a lot of Poles and Geordies but they soon picked our language up, you know; 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there [ðɛə] from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their [ði] job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have somebody doing the national news speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:34:21 yeah, mine mine’s just started talk... well a lot on them’s talking and they they’ve all got their [ði] own slang shall we say; 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really when you you s… as I say they’re [dɛɪə] not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students and all that they’re [ðɪ] not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?; 0:42:21 (well we know someo… anybody comes up here you know straightway they’re [ði] a Cockney) (yeah) (straightaway, yeah, yeah) oh aye, you can tell Cockneys, can’t you, they don’t like no head on their

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[ði] ale, do they?; 0:43:15 I mean there’s [ðɪz] got to be tons of words actually, hasn’t there, [antði] [...] but I just can’t think now) START [ɑː ~ ɒː > aː] (0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars [stɒːz] coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in [ə ɑːɹ ɪn] ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse [smɑːtɑːs] (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:10:22 women swear worse than men in here right rough tarts [taːts] come in here sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:17:11 like some places you’ll go and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve been told if uh if you go to parts [stɒːt] of Wales they’ll start [stɒːt] speaking Welsh; 0:37:09 (well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve got uh) whippets and flat caps (caps and whippets in in us hands) (oh aye, yeah) (and got uh) pigeons in the back garden [bak gaːd ] (fer… ferret in a bag)) NORTH [ɔː] (0:01:46 well we shorten [ʃɔːʔ ] words (that’s right shorten [ʃɔːʔ ]) and we and we sort of [sɔːtə] put them all together as well, like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire [jɔːkʃə] and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:37:50 aught above Watford Gap’s north, [nɔːθ] isn’t it? (aye, definitely)) for (0:08:27 like somebody said, “why do you say water?” I said, “well spell it for [fɒ] me” there’s no ‘O’ in ‘water’ it’s ‘water’ (that’s right) it’s as simple as that) or (0:12:26 everybody spoke different but you you understand understood when you’d been there for a bit say a week or something [wiːk ə sʊmθɪŋ] you got into what they were saying and that; 0:23:08 but I get one or two [wɒn ə tuː] posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat; 0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught [əɹ əʊt]) Warsop (0:34:48 (’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it”) where the fuck’s that? (yeah, they do) (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) yeah, ‘Woodhouse’ (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) ‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’ [waːsəp] […] (Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’)) FORCE [ɔː] (0:22:27 you say things like, “well he’s rat-arsed he’s getting no more”, [mɔː] you know (that’s right) it’s ’cause he’s drunk and he’s got to go; 0:25:31 you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to the netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on the door [dɔː] (toilet door [dɔː])) CURE [ɔː] (0:09:03 it’s not your [jɔː] fault that you speak like that, is it, it’s how you’ve been brought up) happY [ɪ > i] (0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty [twɛntɪ] he’s now my age fifty [fɪftɪ] (go

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 20 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings on keep going) fifty-summat [fɪftɪsʊməʔ]; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy [ɪfɪ] on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only [ɒni] a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city [sɪtɪ] so; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy [tɹɛndɪ] clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ [flaʃi] but you would say, you know, “flashy [flaʃi] twat” (I didn’t put aught for that) things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught for that); 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really [ɹɪːli] interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country [kʊntɹɪ] did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly [tɛli] I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) lettER~commA [ə] (0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them all together as well, [təgɛðəɹ əz wɛɫ] like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather [ɹɑːðə] than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire [jɔːkʃə] and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:04:52 we’re all working class, you know, all mine mining family (well it’s a big mining place, isn’t it?) I am I were a miner [maɛnə] everybody were a miner [maɛnə] in my family) horsES [ə > ɪ] (0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches [ɛɪʧəz] on beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces [ɛːzəŋgɹɛɪsɪz] or aught; 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges [kɒlɪʤəz] it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?) startED [ə > ɪ] (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started [stɑːtəd] pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated [ɛmɪgɹɛɪtɪd] to New Zealand and uh he were in New Zealand for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat; 0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you you lived with us you s… ended [ɛndəd] up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to the lingo; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested [ɪntɹɛstəd] to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) mornING [ɪ] (0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming [kʊmɪn] in stopping [stɒpɪn] here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing [lafɪn]; 0:04:52 we’re all working [wəːkɪŋ] class, you know, all mine mining [maɛnɪn] family (well it’s a big mining place, [maɛnɪm plɛis] isn’t it?) I am I were a miner everybody were a miner in my family; 0:07:43 that’s something [sʊθɪŋ] we used to say when somebody were talking posh [tɔːkɪm pɒʃ] posh we’d say, “oh, they he puts aitch on carrots”)

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PLOSIVES

T frequent word final T-glottaling (e.g. 0:01:19 (do you think you talk like Mansfield people?) (yes) oh aye, spot on we do, don’t we? (oh, I think we all do) sounds right [ɹɛɪʔ] rough when you listen to it [ɪʔ] I think, doesn’t it? [dʊnɪʔ] (it does we sound common); 0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not [nɒʔ] a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got [gɒʔ] a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:09:03 it’s not [nɒʔ] your fault [fɒɫʔ] that you speak like that, is it, [ɪʔ] it’s how you’ve been brought up; 0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t even know what [wɒʔ] a wireless were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put [pʊʔ] wireless on” they’d look at you gone out [gɒnaːʔ]; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, [antɪʔ] (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put [pʊʔ] your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got [gɒʔ] home ([…]) you just carried on what, [wɒʔ] you know, (you forgot [fəgɒʔ] aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:13:45 we’d pick a bit [bɪʔ] of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down the pit [pɪʔ] and I talk a bit [bɪʔ] of Geordie now and again; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ and that [ðaʔ] I put [pʊʔ] I put [pʊʔ] ‘flashy’ but [bʊʔ] you would say, you know, “flashy twat” [twaʔ] (I didn’t [dɪnʔ] put aught [əʊʔ] for that [ðaʔ]) things like that, [ðaʔ] you know, or a ‘tart’, [tɑːʔ] “looks a right [ɹɛɪʔ] tart, [tɑːʔ] she does” (yeah, I didn’t [dɪnʔ] put aught [əʊʔ] for that [ðaʔ]); 0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) I’m not [nɒʔ] old enough for any yet [jɛʔ] (I ain’t [ɛɪnʔ] got any) you liar (you liar) (only nine) (he don’t know what’s causing it [ɪʔ])) word medial & syllable initial T-glottaling (0:01:46 well we shorten [ʃɔːʔ ] words (that’s right shorten [ʃɔːʔ ]) and we and we sort of put them all together as well, like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:04:41 imagine me and Alf in Eton [ ] talking how we do; 0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton [nuː aʊʔ ] is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’; 0:41:31 I used to work with some Sutton [sʊʔ ] girls and I can’t I know she they used to say, “we’re going out tonight” […] and “down our house” it totally different to us […] I can’t think of a word that sort of (I can’t) describes how) T-tapping (0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them [pʊɾ əm] all together as well, like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says ‘alley’ but I [bʊɾ aɛ] still say ‘gennel’; 0:27:14 (‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat”) I didn’t put aught [pʊɾ əʊʔ] for that (things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does”) yeah, I didn’t put aught [pʊɾ əʊʔ] for that) T-voicing (0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put [pʊd] them all together as well, like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:22:27 you say things like, “well he’s rat-arsed he’s getting no more”, you know (that’s right) it’s ’cause he’s drunk and he’s got to [gɒdə] go; 0:29:31 when you’re getting [gɛdɪn] ready to go out at night you say, “I’m going to have a quick wash and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 22 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings interview for the brewery (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” [gɒdə] you know, “got to [gɒdə] make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know; 0:43:15 I mean there’s got to [gɒdə] be tons of words actually, hasn’t there, [...] but I just can’t think now) frequent T-to-R (e.g. 0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them all together as well, like, “get out [gɛɹ aːt] of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her [gɒɹ ə] with you where is she?”); 0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting [pʊɹɪn] it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:09:38 well you do, don’t you, if you try and put it [pʊɹ ɪt] on, you know, you don’t sound right anyway; 0:12:26 everybody spoke different but you you understand understood when you’d been there for a bit say a week or something you got into [gɒɹ ɪntə] what they were saying and that; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as [bʊɹ əz] soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:17:11 like some places you’ll go and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve [wɒɹ av] been told if uh if you go to parts of Wales they’ll start speaking Welsh; 0:17:48 Sutton’s got a [gɒɹ ə] funny accent they are they’re totally different […] and it’s only what t… two mile away (yeah) (we’d say ‘our house’ but if you come from Sutton they’d say ‘our house’); 0:20:43 you know if you’ve been talking to somebody that’s posh you know when they’ve gone you say, (“posh twat”) “Christ he were bloody posh, weren’t he?” you know, and you say that but I [bʊɹ a] mean it don’t bother you while you’re actually talking to them; 0:22:27 you say things like, “well he’s rat-arsed he’s getting [gɛɹɪn] no more”, you know (that’s right) it’s ’cause he’s drunk and he’s got to go; 0:24:38 (all sorts of things we say for that) yeah, ‘not a [nɒɹ ə] full pint’; 0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) (I’m not old enough for any yet) I ain’t got any [gɒɹ ɛnɪ] (you liar) (you liar) only nine (he don’t know what’s causing it); 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I [wɒɹ a] say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”; 0:39:35 it’s like if you used to at one time if you used to go to Sheffield try and get in [gɛɹ ɪn] a nightclub oh they used to hate Mansfield (oh aye, and Chesterfield) so you had to al… try and al… you knew you had to try and alter your accent to get in [gɛɹ ɪn] a nightclub; 0:42:50 haven’t heard ‘outhouse’ for a long time (‘outhouse’) that’s a building that were outside that you put all [pʊɹ ɔːɫ] your stuff in)

NASALS

NG velar nasal plus (0:43:57 got to’ve had a good Nottingham [nɒtɪŋgʊm] actor who could do it instead of him (yeah) and done made a better job on it) frequent NG-fronting (e.g. 0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going [gʊɪn] on, duck?” uh they started pulling [pʊlɪn] their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking” [dʊkɪn]; 0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming [kʊmɪn] in stopping [stɒpɪn] here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing [lafɪn]; 0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking [spiːkɪn] they’d think, “look at him putting [pʊɹɪn] it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:18:54 but then again if you’re going to [gʊnə] be on the BBC people’ve

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N syllabic N with nasal release (0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t [wʊd t] they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:09:17 I must admit that if I were in company where everybody else spoke really posh I think I’d feel like an outsider but I wouldn’t [wʊd t] be able to help uh you speak how you speak, don’t you?; 0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t [wʊd t] even know what a wireless were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, [wʊnʔ] no) if you said, “put wireless on” they’d look at you gone out; 0:37:09 (well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve got uh) whippets and flat caps (caps and whippets in in us hands) (oh aye, yeah) (and got uh) pigeons in the back garden [bak gaːd ] (fer… ferret in a bag); 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students [stuːd ts] and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?; 0:39:50 if you go in Chesterfield drinking you’ve got try and alter your accent (yeah) ’cause else they know straightaway he’s from Mansfield (yeah) all of a sudden [sʊd ] you’ve got about four lads round you)

FRICATIVES

H frequent H-dropping (e.g. 0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how [aː] you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head [ɛd] down said, “ey up, he’s here again [ɪəɹ əgɛn] and he’s ducking”; 0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, [ɑːsɔʊɫ] yeah, “arsehole” [ɑːsɔʊɫ]) yeah, “arsehole”, [ɑːsɔʊɫ] yeah, they would; 0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English round here, [ɪə] you see, that’s how [aː] she talks and all; 0:14:51 sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying (no) like if they come up here they wouldn’t understand half [ɑːf] of what we were saying (they wouldn’t understand us, no, they wouldn’t you’re right) (they reckon we talk fast mind, you talk fast, don’t you?); 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold [ɛʊd] back (no) do we? (no); 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us [ɪːɹ ʊz] when I hear us [ɪːɹ ʊz] on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, [ɪː] mate”; 0:38:04 it hits [ɪts] nail on the head [ɛd] really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?; 0:43:44 Kevin Costner7 that twat trying to speak like Robin Hood8 [ɹɒbɪn ʊd] a Yankee can’t talk like a Mansfield lad)

LIQUIDS

R approximant R (0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right [ɹɛɪt] down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces

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[ɛːzəŋgɹɛɪsɪz] or aught [əɹ əʊt]; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for the brewery [bɹuːəɹɪ] (yeah, that’s right [ɹaɛʔ]) (that were it, [wəɹ ɪt] yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, [slapəɹ ən] you know; 0:37:09 well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve got uh (whippets and flat caps) caps and whippets in in us hands (oh aye, yeah) and got uh (pigeons in the back garden) fer… ferret [fɛɹɪt] in a bag; 0:41:31 I used to work with some Sutton girls and I can’t I know she they used to say, “we’re going out tonight” […] and “down our house” it totally different [dɪfɹənʔ] to us […] I can’t think of a word that sort of (I can’t) describes [dɪskɹaɛbz] how)

L clear onset L (0:04:52 we’re all working class, [klas] you know, all mine mining family [famli] (well it’s a big mining place, [plɛis] isn’t it?) I am I were a miner everybody were a miner in my family [famlɪ]; 0:15:21 if we listen [lɪsən] to anybody say from down south on telly [tɛlɪ] we probably [pɹɒbəlɪ] think that sounds quite nice but I’d love [lʊv] to know what they think of how we sound; 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really [ɹɪːlɪ] when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, [laɛk] a really [ɹɪːlɪ] close-knit [kləʊsnɪʔ] thing the it the it’s colleges [kɒlɪʤəz] it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really [ɹɪːlɪ] get they don’t really [ɹɪːlɪ] get together like [laɛk] we do, do they?) dark coda L (e.g. 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all [ɔːɫ] at school [skuːəɫ] kids at school [skuːəɫ] we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:39:35 it’s like if you used to at one time if you used to go to Sheffield [ʃɛfiəɫd] try and get in a nightclub oh they used to hate Mansfield [manzfiəɫd] (oh aye, and Chesterfield [ʧɛstəfiəɫd]) so you had to al… [ɒɫ] try and al… [ɒɫ] you knew you had to try and alter [ɒɫtə] your accent to get in nightclub) syllabic L with lateral release (0:04:11 everybody’s entitled [ɛntaɛt ] to speak how they like, aren’t they, you know, if that’s your how the way you speak that’s it; 0:28:05 uh a lot of Geordies have been down this way so [lɪ ] bits like that we I suppose we’ve, like, pinched off them, haven’t we really; 0:24:56 oh my old man used to call me that, yeah, ‘our Myrtle’ [ ]; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little [lɪ ] pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on strike with them they they were right as rain right as rain with us)

GLIDES yod-dropping with N, T (0:13:01 my cousin we we were brought brought up together and he he emigrated to New Zealand [nuːziːlənd] and uh he were in New Zealand [nuːziːlənd] for oh he’s been there from being twenty he’s now my age fifty (go on keep going) fifty-summat; 0:29:03 (if you try to make us say things like somebody else you’re) sounds stupid, [stuːpɪd] don’t it? (you’re taking summat away from somebody, aren’t you?) (yeah) (you know what I mean) sounds stupid [stuːpɪd] (it’s like pinching summat or trying to pinch summat); 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have somebody doing the national news [nuːz] speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading the news [nuːz] and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can; 0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton [nuː aʊʔ ] is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s

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‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’; 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students [stuːd ts] and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew [nuː] I were on strike with them they they were right as rain right as rain with us) yod coalescence (0:04:34 (but if then don’t you think then it’s) could be a better education [ɛʤəkɛɪʃən] (yeah, yeah))

ELISION prepositions frequent of reduction (e.g. 0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of [ə] put them all together as well, like, “get out of here” [əɹ ɪə] (yeah) as, like, one type of [ə] word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:06:41 old miner’ll never swear in front of a [ɪɱ fɹʊnt əɹ ə] woman (no, I never heard my dad or my mam swear and I daren’t in front of [ə] them); 0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of [ə] Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down the pit and I talk a bit of [ə] Geordie now and again; 0:14:51 sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying (no) like if they come up here they wouldn’t understand half of [ə] what we were saying (they wouldn’t understand us, no, they wouldn’t you’re right) (they reckon we talk fast mind, you talk fast, don’t you?); 0:18:54 but then again if you’re going to be on the BBC people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of the [əʔ] people wouldn’t understand a load of [ə] what we were saying; 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, wouldn’t you?”) (yeah) ‘wouldn’t you’ (yeah) (that’s it, aye) out of ears… [əɹ ɪːz] uh earshot of the [əʔ] missus, like (oh aye, yeah); 0:24:03 you know instead of [ə] saying ‘thank you’ they say ‘ta’ (‘ta’ ‘thank you very much’) (yeah) (“want a fag?” “ta, I’ll have one”); 0:27:57 (yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” “all right”) but you see a lot of [ə] folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because there w… a lot of [ə] Geordies have been down this way; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of [ə] the country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”; 0:41:31 I used to work with some Sutton girls and I can’t I know she they used to say, “we’re going out tonight” […] and “down our house” it totally different to us […] I can’t think of a [əɹ ə] word that sort of (I can’t) describes how) over reduction (0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over [əʊə] the place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young ones managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out) to reduction (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, [tɔʊɫd ʔ ɹuːf] like, put a cleat in and that; 0:15:21 if we listen to anybody [tɛnɪbɒdɪ] say from down south on telly we probably think that sounds quite nice but I’d love to know what they think of how we sound; 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth [daːntəːθ] very down-to-earth [daːntəːθ] in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do we? (no); 0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 26 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings beer, you know, they they like to hear us [tɪːɹ əz] talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat) frequent with reduction (e.g. 0:01:46 (well we shorten words) that’s right shorten (and we and we sort of put them all together as well, like, “get out of here”) yeah (as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than) yeah, “have you got her with [wɪ] you where is she?”; 0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with [wɪ] my dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and my dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mysen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:10:06 but if you were out you had to respect women that were round you I mean if if you were men men together you’d eff and blind, you know what I mean, but if a woman come and sat with [wɪ] you you’d control it you’d control it; 0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you you lived with [wi] us you s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to the lingo; 0:40:16 it did with [wɪ] me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on strike with [wi] them they they were right as rain right as rain with [wi] us) negation frequent secondary contraction (e.g. 0:01:19 (do you think you talk like Mansfield people?) (yes) oh aye, spot on we do, don’t we? (oh, I think we all do) sounds right rough when you listen to it I think, doesn’t it? [dʊnɪʔ] (it does we sound common); 0:04:21 I’d say that you wasn’t [wɒzənʔ] I’d say you wasn’t [wɒnʔ] from Derbyshire (where would you say I was from?) […] (somewhere posh) somewhere posh, aye; 0:04:52 (we’re all working class, you know, all mine mining family) well it’s a big mining place, isn’t it? [ɪntɪʔ] (I am I were a miner everybody were a miner in my family); 0:04:58 that’s how they talk, isn’t it? [ɪnɪʔ] (yeah) can’t talk posh down the pit, no (no, we can’t tell that on the mic) no (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) oh aye (it is aye, aye, can’t say it on there) (I shouldn’t [ʃʊnt] ask about that one); 0:05:13 if you didn’t [dɪnʔ] swear down the pit in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t [dɪnʔ] they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down the pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, isn’t there? [ɪntðə] (yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, like, put a cleat in and that; 0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with my dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and my dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it [wɒntɪʔ] […] I used to piss mysen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:09:45 just got be yoursen, haven’t [anʔ] you, simple as that (say that again) you’ve got be yoursen ‘self’ (‘you’ve got to be yourself’ he means) got be yoursen; 0:10:59 (I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t [wʊd t] even know what a wireless were, would they?) no, they wouldn’t, [wʊnʔ] no (if you said, “put wireless on” they’d look at you gone out); 0:12:35 well up at the pit they were all Poles and Geordies down there, wasn’t they? [wɒnʔðə] (yeah, that’s right, yeah) hell of a lot of Poles and Geordies but they soon picked our language up, you know; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, [antɪʔ] (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 27 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, [ɪntɪʔ] you know what I mean, say if you you lived with us you s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to the lingo; 0:14:16 worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, [ɪntɪʔ] it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you? (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) (well they perhaps think same about ourn and all) (they seem to me more like sing, you know) who Scousers?; 0:14:51 sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying (no) like if they come up here they wouldn’t [wʊnt] understand half of what we were saying (they wouldn’t [wʊnt] understand us, no, they wouldn’t [wʊnʔ] you’re right) (they reckon we talk fast mind, you talk fast, don’t you?); 0:18:54 but then again if you’re going to be on the BBC people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t [anʔ] they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of the people wouldn’t [wʊnt] understand a load of what we were saying; 0:19:32 local radio people like like you get your local ra… uh get local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were giving the weather, “it’s going to be pissing it down today” (yeah) you couldn’t [kʊnʔ] say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them sort of words (no) you’d have to curb them words, wouldn’t [wʊnʔ] you?; 0:20:55 (so there you are we’re going to say you when you’ve gone) “wasn’t [wɒnʔ] she a posh twat?” (yeah) (“worth one, though”); 0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, wouldn’t [wʊnʔ] you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t [wʊnʔ] you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of the missus, like) (oh aye, yeah); 0:27:14 (‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat”) I didn’t [dɪnʔ] put aught for that (things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does”) yeah, I didn’t [dɪnʔ] put aught for that; 0:28:05 uh a lot of Geordies have been down this way so bits like that we I suppose we’ve, like, pinched off them, haven’t [anʔ] we really; 0:28:38 easier to say ‘pumps’, isn’t it, [ɪnɪʔ] it’s quicker same as a T-shirt (‘T- shirt’) we used to call them ‘Slop…’ these they used to call them ‘Sloppy Joes’ when I were a kid; 0:37:50 aught above Watford Gap’s north, isn’t it? [ɪntɪʔ] (aye, definitely); 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t [wɒnʔ] I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero; 0:41:03 I mean at football matches you get them from Yorkshire and they still shout, “scab scab scab” typical (yeah they do) and uh f… all old hat now, isn’t it? [ɪntɪʔ] (yeah) there’s still a lot don’t talk to each other though; 0:42:04 if you went down London straightaway they’d say, [...] “he’s from up” they’d say, “he’s from up north” they’d know straightaway that you were from up north, wouldn’t they? [wʊntðə]; 0:42:50 haven’t [ant] heard ‘outhouse’ for a long time (‘outhouse’) that’s a building that were outside that you put all your stuff in; 0:43:15 I mean there’s got to be tons of words actually, hasn’t there, [antði] [...] but I just can’t think now) simplification word final consonant cluster reduction (0:01:19 (do you think you talk like Mansfield people?) (yes) oh aye, spot on we do, don’t we? (oh, I think we all do) sounds right rough when you listen to it I think, doesn’t it? [dʊnɪʔ] (it does we sound common); 0:04:58 that’s how they talk, isn’t it? [ɪnɪʔ] (yeah) can’t talk posh down the pit, no (no, we can’t tell that on the mic) no (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) oh aye (it is aye, aye, can’t say it on there) (I shouldn’t ask about that one); 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down-to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to [wɒnə] tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold back (no) do we? (no); 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ [kləʊz] and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat” (I didn’t put aught for that) things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught for that); 0:28:38 easier to say ‘pumps’, isn’t it, [ɪnɪʔ] it’s quicker same as a T-shirt (‘T-shirt’) we used to call them ‘Slop…’ these they used to call them ‘Sloppy Joes’ when I were a kid; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 28 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings you asked [ast] earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found [fʊn] out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found [fʊn] out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over the moon I were I were the local hero) word medial consonant cluster reduction (0:07:43 that’s something [sʊθɪŋ] we used to say when somebody were talking posh we’d say, “oh, they he puts aitch on carrots”; 0:15:21 if we listen to anybody say from down south on telly we probably [pɹɒbəlɪ] think that sounds quite nice but I’d love to know what they think of how we sound; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for the brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were my area manager I spoke to him exactly [ɛgzaklɪ] like this but when I went for my interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) syllable deletion (0:04:52 we’re all working class, you know, all mine mining family [famlɪ] (well it’s a big mining place, isn’t it?) I am I were a miner everybody were a miner in my family [famlɪ]; 0:09:17 I must admit that if I were in company [kʊmpnɪ] where everybody else spoke really posh I think I’d feel like an outsider but I wouldn’t be able to help uh you speak how you speak, don’t you?; 0:14:16 (worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you?) (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) well they perhaps [pɹaps] think same about ourn and all (they seem to me more like sing, you know) (who Scousers?); 0:28:05 uh a lot of Geordies have been down this way so bits like that we I suppose [spəʊz] we’ve, like, pinched off them, haven’t we really; 0:29:15 I suppose [spəʊz] they’ve got do for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do that) word initial syllable reduction (0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) I’m not old [əʊd ʊf] enough for any yet (I ain’t got any) you liar (you liar) (only nine) (he don’t know what’s causing it)) frequent definite article reduction (e.g. 0:00:40 I’m the landlord [amʔ lanlɔːd] of the Bowl in Hand I’ve been here nine years and I were born and bred in Mansfield; 0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, [ɪmʔ pantəʊ] you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage [ɒnʔ stɛɪʤ] and you can see them laughing; 0:04:58 (that’s how they talk, isn’t it?) yeah (can’t talk posh down the pit, [daːnʔ pɪʔ] no) no, we can’t tell that on the mic [ɒmʔ maɪk] (no) (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) (oh aye) it is aye, aye, can’t say it on there (I shouldn’t ask about that one); 0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down the pit [daːnʔ pɪʔ] in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down the pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold the roof, [ɔʊɫd ʔ ɹuːf] like, put a cleat in and that; 0:07:01 in fact I think some of the young [sʊm əʔ jʊŋ] girls are worse than the boys [ðənʔ bɔɪz] (worse than men women) yeah; 0:11:31 used to find out where the fire [wɛːʔ faɪə] were put your hands down where the fire [wɛːʔ faɪə] were so you could get your bum on it (yeah) (oh, aye); 0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you you lived with us you s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to the lingo [təʔ lɪŋgəʊ]; 0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down the pit [daːnʔ pɪʔ] and I talk a bit of Geordie now and again; 0:16:20 (well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies) (no, there

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 29 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings isn’t, duck, no) no, they’re all coming from and all over the place, [əʊəʔ plɛɪs] aren’t they? (no, no, well these young ones managers, aren’t they?) (yeah) (here for couple of month then they get kicked out); 0:18:54 but then again if you’re going to be on the BBC [ɒnʔ biːbiːsiː] people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of the people [ ] wouldn’t understand a load of what we were saying; 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, wouldn’t you?”) (yeah) ‘wouldn’t you’ (yeah) (that’s it, aye) out of ears… uh earshot of the missus, [əʔ mɪsɪz] like (oh aye, yeah); 0:25:31 you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to the netty [təʔ nɛtɪ] sneck” ‘sneck’ on the door [ɒnʔ dɔː] (toilet door); 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have somebody doing the national news [duːɪnʔ naʃnəɫ nuːz] speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:30:30 “blow him up they want kill him, like” you know what I mean, they wouldn’t let you do that on the [ɒnʔ] on the BBC, [ɒnʔ biːbiːsiː] would they, say they’d say, “you can’t do that”; 0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading the news [ɹiːdɪnʔ nuːz] and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other the [ɪnʔ ʊðə] parts of the country [əʔ kʊntɹɪ] did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for the brewery [fəʔ bɹuːəɹɪ] (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know; 0:37:09 (well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve got uh) whippets and flat caps (caps and whippets in in us hands) (oh aye, yeah) (and got uh) pigeons in the back garden [ɪnʔ bak gaːd ] (fer… ferret in a bag); 0:38:04 it hits nail on the head [ɒnʔ ɛd] really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over the moon [ɒvə ʔ muːn] I were I were the local hero [wəʔ lɔʊkəɫ ɪːɹəʊ]) it reduction (0:04:58 (that’s how they talk, isn’t it?) yeah (can’t talk posh down the pit, no) no, we can’t tell that on the mic (no) (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) (oh aye) it is [tɪz] aye, aye, can’t say it on there (I shouldn’t ask about that one); 0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in [baŋtɪn] pit props, you know, to hold the roof, like, put a cleat in and that) L-deletion (0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down the pit in the old [əʊd] the old [ɛʊd] hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down the pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:16:45 no, we don’t we’re down- to-earth very down-to-earth in Mansfield […] we’d call a spade a spade if you if we want to tell you summat we tell you we don’t hold [ɛʊd] back (no) do we? (no); 0:17:11 like some places you’ll go and uh you’ll sit down like I’ve what I’ve been told [tɛʊd] if uh if you go to parts of Wales they’ll start speaking Welsh; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only [ɒni] a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so; 0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) (I’m not old enough for any yet) I ain’t got any (you liar) (you liar) only [əʊnɪ] nine (he don’t know what’s causing it)) frequent TH-deletion (e.g. 0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them [əm] all together as well, like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 30 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them [əm] ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them [əm] laughing; 0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with my dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them [əm] and my dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mysen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:20:43 you know if you’ve been talking to somebody that’s posh you know when they’ve gone you say, (“posh twat”) “Christ he were bloody posh, weren’t he?” you know, and you say that but I mean it don’t bother you while you’re actually talking to them [əm]; 0:28:38 easier to say ‘pumps’, isn’t it, it’s quicker same as a T-shirt (‘T-shirt’) we used to call them [əm] ‘Slop…’ these they used to call them [əm] ‘Sloppy Joes’ when I were a kid; 0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading the news and all this they it’s in front on them [əm] what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can; 0:31:38 I’d love to hear you talk like that [aʔ] behind the bar; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for the brewery (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make them [əm] think that I’m not a slapper” and, you know; 0:34:21 yeah, mine mine’s just started talk... well a lot on them’s [əmz] talking and they they’ve all got their own slang shall we say; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on strike with them [əm] they they were right as rain right as rain with us) V-deletion (0:01:46 (well we shorten words) that’s right shorten (and we and we sort of put them all together as well, like, “get out of here”) yeah (as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than) yeah, “have [ɛ] you got her with you where is she?”; 0:06:19 other men’d [mɛnəd] laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve [juːdə] spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over [əʊə] the place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young ones managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out; 0:19:32 local radio people like like you get your local ra… uh get local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were giving [giʲɪn] the weather, “it’s going to be pissing it down today” (yeah) you couldn’t say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them sort of words (no) you’d have to curb them words, wouldn’t you?; 0:22:03 as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give [giː] her one, wouldn’t you?” (yeah) (‘wouldn’t you’) (yeah) that’s it, aye (out of ears… uh earshot of the missus, like) (oh aye, yeah); 0:24:03 (you know instead of saying ‘thank you’ they say ‘ta’) (‘ta’ ‘thank you very much’) (yeah) “want a fag?” “ta, I’ll have [ɛ] one”; 0:29:31 when you’re getting ready to go out at night you say, “I’m going to have [ɛɪ] a quick wash and put a clean shirt on” (yeah) shower shave and a sh... shampoo; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job (yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t have [ɛ] somebody doing the national news like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:43:07 if we’d’ve [wɪdə] been a little bit more prepared we might’ve [maɛtə] thought of something; 0:43:57 got to’ve [gɒtːuə] had a good Nottingham actor who could do it instead of him (yeah) and done made a better job on it) W-deletion (0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always [ɔːləs] say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’ [ɹɛnəθ])

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LIAISON frequent linking R (e.g. 0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, [ɒvəɹ ɪʔ] you know, and they actually put it in the panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on the stage and you can see them laughing; 0:04:34 (but if then don’t you think then it’s) could be a better education [bɛtəɹ ɛʤəkɛɪʃən] (yeah, yeah); 0:08:13 there isn’t [ðəɹ ɪzənt] a ‘R’ in [ə ɑːɹ ɪn] ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in [ɑːɹ ɪn] Notts (yeah) we’re only a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so; 0:31:07 (I were going to say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught [əɹ əʊt]; 0:32:41 well you know, like, say your f… you went for your first interview for the brewery (yeah, that’s right) (that were it, [wəɹ ɪt] yeah) and and so you think, “oh well I’ve I’ve got to” you know, “got to make them think that I’m not a slapper” and, [slapəɹ ən] you know; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in the other parts of the country did think of our accent [aːɹ aksənt] when they hear us [ɪːɹ ʊz] when I hear us [ɪːɹ ʊz] on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) zero linking R (0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a [wɪː ə] bit easier in Mansfield [iːziə ɪm mansfiəɫd] (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only [wɪː ɒni] a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so) frequent intrusive R (e.g. 0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them all together as well, like, “get out of here” [əɹ ɪə] (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:06:41 old miner’ll never swear in front of a [ɪɱ fɹʊnt əɹ ə] woman (no, I never heard my dad or my mam swear and I daren’t in front of them); 0:18:54 but then again if you’re going to be on the BBC people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if [naːɹ ɪf] we were presenting half of the people wouldn’t understand a load of what we were saying; 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d give her one, wouldn’t you?”) (yeah) ‘wouldn’t you’ (yeah) (that’s it, aye) out of ears… [əɹ ɪːz] uh earshot of the missus, like (oh aye, yeah); 0:24:56 oh my old man used to call me that, yeah, ‘our [jɛɹ aː] Myrtle’; 0:41:31 I used to work with some Sutton girls and I can’t I know she they used to say, “we’re going out tonight” […] and “down our house” it totally different to us […] I can’t think of a [əɹ ə] word that sort of (I can’t) describes how; 0:43:57 got to’ve had a good Nottingham actor who could do it instead of him [ɪnstɛd əɹ ɪm] (yeah) and done made a better job on it)

WEAK-STRONG CONTRAST word final vowel strengthening (0:43:57 got to’ve a good Nottingham [nɒtɪŋgʊm] actor who could do it instead of him (yeah) and done made a better job on it) LEXICALLY SPECIFIC VARIATION again (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again [əgɛn] and he’s ducking”; 0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 32 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings the pit and I talk a bit of Geordie now and again [əgɛn]; 0:18:54 but then again [əgɛn] if you’re going to be on the BBC people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of the people wouldn’t understand a load of what we were saying) (be)cause (0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, [kɒs] you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’; 0:27:57 (yeah, that’s a Geordie term ‘marrow’, aye, “how you ganning, marrow?” “all right”) but you see a lot of folks in Mansfield do use that, don’t they, because [bɪkɒs] there w… a lot of Geordies have been down this way; 0:34:48 ’cause [kɒs] it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’) says (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, [sɛz] “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says [sɛz] ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’; 0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, [sɛz] “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’) GRAMMAR

DETERMINERS frequent definite article reduction (e.g. 0:00:40 I’m t’ landlord of the Bowl in Hand I’ve been here nine years and I were born and bred in Mansfield; 0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in t’ panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on t’ stage and you can see them laughing; 0:04:58 (that’s how they talk, isn’t it?) yeah (can’t talk posh down t’ pit, no) no, we can’t tell that on t’ mic (no) (well pit talk that’s a language of its own, isn’t it?) (oh aye) it is aye, aye, can’t say it on there (I shouldn’t ask about that one); 0:05:13 if you didn’t swear down t’ pit in the old the old hundred they thought you were gay or summat, didn’t they, or religious (aye, they did, aye) so you had to swear down the pit (all the time?) oh aye, every other word were ‘effing’ this and ‘effing’ that; 0:07:01 in fact I think some of t’ young girls are worse than t’ boys (worse than men women) yeah; 0:11:31 used to find out where t’ fire were put your hands down where t’ fire were so you could get your bum on it (yeah) (oh, aye); 0:13:26 it’s where you live, isn’t it, you know what I mean, say if you you lived with us you s… ended up talking like us (yeah, you’d soon get used to it) same as I say you get to t’ lingo; 0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down t’ pit and I talk a bit of Geordie now and again; 0:16:20 (well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies) (no, there isn’t, duck, no) no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they? (no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they?) (yeah) (here for couple of month then they get kicked out); 0:18:54 but then again if you’re gonna be on t’ BBC people’ve got be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of t’ people wouldn’t understand a load of what we were saying; 0:25:31 you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to t’ netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on t’ door (toilet door); 0:28:10 when they all come down when all t’ Geordie pits shut down; 0:30:13 so same as I say some people have to do it for their job

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(yeah) (yeah) like same as you say you can’t hae somebody doing t’ national news speaking like us, can you, you know what I mean; 0:30:30 “blow him up they want kill him, like” you know what I mean, they wouldn’t let you do that on t’ on t’ BBC, would they, say they’d say, “you can’t do that”; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in t’ other parts of t’ country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”; 0:37:09 (well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve got uh) whippets and flat caps (caps and whippets in in us hands) (oh aye, yeah) (and got uh) pigeons in t’ back garden (fer… ferret in a bag); 0:38:04 it hits nail on t’ head really when you you s… as I say they’re not, like, a really close-knit thing the it the it’s colleges it’s, you know, students and all that they’re not really get they don’t really get together like we do, do they?; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over t’ moon I were I were t’ local hero) zero definite article (0:03:21 well my pub’s straight opposite _ Palace Theatre and we get a lot of stars coming in stopping here and what have you and when you call them ‘duck’ they can’t get over it, you know, and they actually put it in t’ panto, you know, call everybody ‘duck’ on t’ stage and you can see them laughing; 0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use _ Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all; 0:10:59 I mean nowadays kids wouldn’t even know what a wireless were, would they? (no, they wouldn’t, no) if you said, “put _ wireless on” they’d look at you gone out; 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on _ beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:14:16 (worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you?) (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) well they perhaps think _ same about ourn and all (they seem to me more like sing, you know) (who Scousers?); 0:15:30 when I went up uh Barnsley same as I was telling you about that ‘duck’ bit I mean they used take _ piss out of me that’s what they used do; 0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use _ word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’; 0:34:06 well my grandkids talk _ same as me (I’m not old enough for any yet) (I ain’t got any) (you liar) you liar (only nine) he don’t know what’s causing it) a for an (0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all)) zero indefinite article (0:07:43 that’s something we used to say when somebody were talking posh we’d say, “oh, they he puts _ aitch on carrots”; 0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for _ couple of month then they get kicked out) demonstrative them (0:19:32 local radio people like like you get your local ra… uh get local people on it, you know what I mean, and then people’d understand it more like if I were gieing t’ weather, “it’s gonna be pissing it down today” (yeah) you couldn’t say that I know that, like, but you know what I mean, in them sort of words (no) you’d have to curb them words, wouldn’t you?; 0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading t’ news and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can; 0:29:15 I suppose they’ve got do for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do that; 0:37:09 well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve

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NOUNS zero plural (0:13:45 we’d pick a bit of Geordie up ’cause I worked with Geordies for oh twelve year down t’ pit and I talk a bit of Geordie now and again; 0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out; 0:17:48 Sutton’s got a funny accent they are they’re totally different […] and it’s only what t… two mile away (yeah) (we’d say ‘our house’ but if you come from Sutton they’d say ‘our house’))

PRONOUNS singular object us (0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’; 0:40:39 my first pub were at Whitwell Derbyshire and that was a little pit village and they were all out on strike and now from Mansfield of course they find out ex-miner but when they knew I were on strike with them they they were right as rain right as rain with us) possessive me (0:06:41 (old miner’ll never swear in front of a woman) no, I never heard my dad or me mam swear and I daren’t in front of them; 0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for t’ brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were me area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for me interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) possessive us (0:37:09 well them from down south uh they’d s… they call they still think we’ve got uh (whippets and flat caps) caps and whippets in in us hands (oh aye, yeah) and got uh (pigeons in t’ back garden) fer… ferret in a bag) possessive ourn (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:14:16 (worse accent than us Brummies, isn’t it, it’s a horrible accent I reckon, don’t you?) (yeah, and Liverpudlian they) well they perhaps think same about ourn and all (they seem to me more like sing, you know) (who Scousers?)) regularised reflexive (0:08:13 there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’ (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse (we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all); 0:23:08 but I get one or two posh and, you know, Gareth Hunt Lewis Collins4 they’ve all been over but they’re right as rain after a beer, you know, they they like to hear us talk and they can be theirsens then, you know, can have a fag when nobody’s watching if they’re not supposed to smoke or summat)

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VERBS present be – is generalisation (0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading t’ news and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can; 0:34:21 yeah, mine mine’s just started talk... well a lot on them’s talking and they they’ve all got their own slang shall we say) have – has generalisation (0:43:15 I mean there’s gotta be tons of words actually, hasn’t there, [...] but I just can’t think now) past zero past (0:07:05 you’re talking about how how how rough we talk I can remember with me dad he whenever anybody come to his hou… to our house he’d try and talk posh to them and me dad’s from Pleasley their accent were worse than ourn, wasn’t it […] I used to piss mesen listening to him, aye, I did try to talk posh bless him […] yeah, yeah, insurance man come, you know, ‘bob a week club’; 0:10:06 but if you were out you had to respect women that were round you I mean if if you were men men together you’d eff and blind, you know what I mean, but if a woman come and sat with you you’d control it you’d control it; 0:14:51 sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying (no) like if they come up here they wouldn’t understand half of what we were saying (they wouldn’t understand us, no, they wouldn’t you’re right) (they reckon we talk fast mind, you talk fast, don’t you?); 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over t’ moon I were I were t’ local hero) generalisation of simple past (0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:36:00 it does sound that way, don’t it? (rough, like, it does sound rough) it does sound rough but it’s just how we’ve always spoke it but (you you watch a video of yoursen and you s…, “oh Jesus, I don’t talk like that”))

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http://sounds.bl.uk Page 37 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings zero auxiliary have (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “_ you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, isn’t there? (yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that) invariant there is (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) (oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’) oh aye, “you got your snap?” (‘snap’ ‘wat…’) ‘cleats’, isn’t there? (yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water”) ([…] what’s that?) uh (eh) how can you describe it (yeah) piece of wood shaped (like a wedge) like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’ (used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that; 0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out; 0:41:03 I mean at football matches you get them from Yorkshire and they still shout, “scab scab scab” to the typical (yeah they do) and uh f… all old hat now, isn’t it? (yeah) there’s still a lot don’t talk to each other though) historic present (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”) bare infinitive (0:09:45 just got _ be yoursen, haven’t you, simple as that (say that again) you’ve got _ be yoursen ‘self’ (‘you’ve got to be yourself’ he means) got be yoursen; 0:15:30 when I went up uh Barnsley same as I was telling you about that ‘duck’ bit I mean they used _ take piss out of me that’s what they used _ do; 0:18:54 but then again if you’re gonna be on t’ BBC people’ve got _ be able to understand you, haven’t they? (yeah) now if we were presenting half of t’ people wouldn’t understand a load of what we were saying; 0:29:15 I suppose they’ve got _ do for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do that; 0:30:30 “blow him up they want _ kill him, like” you know what I mean, they wouldn’t let you do that on t’ on t’ BBC, would they, say they’d say, “you can’t do that”; 0:32:49 interviews are a good ’un actually, yeah, you have got _ try and be careful)

NEGATION multiple negation (0:42:21 (well we know someo… anybody comes up here you know straightway they’re a Cockney) (yeah) (straightaway, yeah, yeah) oh aye, you can tell Cockneys, can’t you, they don’t like no head on their ale, do they?) auxiliary contraction (0:16:20 well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies (no, there isn’t, duck, no) (no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they?) no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they? (yeah) here for couple of month then they get kicked out) ain’t for negative have (0:34:06 (well my grandkids talk same as me) (I’m not old enough for any yet) I ain’t got any (you liar) (you liar) only nine (he don’t know what’s causing it)) invariant don’t (e.g. 0:20:43 you know if you’ve been talking to somebody that’s posh you know when they’ve gone you say, (“posh twat”) “Christ he were bloody posh, weren’t he?” you know, and you say that but I mean it don’t bother you while you’re actually talking to them; 0:27:03 I mean our Richard’s put ‘alley’ ’cause, you see, (‘alley’) (‘alley’ that’s another ‘alley’) that’s my youngest son he don’t use word ‘gennel’ although he’s my son he says ‘alley’ but I still say ‘gennel’; 0:29:03 (if you try to make us say things like somebody else you’re) sounds stupid, don’t it? (you’re taking summat away from somebody, aren’t you?) (yeah) (you know what I mean) sounds stupid (it’s like pinching summat or trying to pinch summat); 0:34:06 well my grandkids talk same as me (I’m not old enough for any yet) (I ain’t got any) (you liar) you liar (only nine) he don’t know what’s causing it; 0:36:00 it does sound that way, don’t it? (rough,

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PREPOSITIONS preposition deletion (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh _ Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:03:39 that’s down _ London, isn’t it?; 0:40:16 it did with me actually when uh I went up uh _ Barnsley and uh they found out I were from Notts straightaway they (“scab”) come and said, “oh, scab” but I wasn’t I I had a year full year out, like (yeah, we were on strike) but once they found out I that I’d been out a full year oh they were over t’ moon I were I were t’ local hero; 0:42:04 if you went down _ London straightaway they’d say, [...] “he’s from up” they’d say, “he’s from up north” they’d know straightaway that you were from up north, wouldn’t they?) substitution off [= from] (0:28:05 uh a lot of Geordies have been down this way so bits like that we I suppose we’ve, like, pinched off them, haven’t we really) on [= of] + pronoun (0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading t’ news and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can; 0:34:21 yeah, mine mine’s just started talk... well a lot on them’s talking and they they’ve all got their own slang shall we say; 0:34:48 ’cause it’s spelt ‘H’ ‘O’ ‘U’ ‘G’ ‘H’ ‘T’ ‘O’ ‘N’ but we always say ‘Houghton’ so if anybody comes from round here’s thinking, “tell us where New Houghton is?” everybody says, “never heard on it” (where the fuck’s that?) yeah, they do (same as Woodhouse we say ‘Woodhouse’) (yeah, ‘Woodhouse’) (it’s ‘Woodhouse’ but we say ‘Woodhouse’) (‘Woodhouse’ and ‘Warsop’) […] Rainworth they call it ‘Rainworth’ but we say ‘Rainworth’; 0:43:57 got to’ve had a good Nottingham actor who could do it instead of him (yeah) and done made a better job on it)

ADVERBS unmarked manner adverb (0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:12:26 everybody spoke different but you you understand understood when you’d been there for a bit say a week or something you got into what they were saying and that; 0:25:31 you see, Geordies they say ‘netty’ I used to use that a bit and all […] so when it’s snowing and it’s been snowing heavy it’s “right up to t’ netty sneck” ‘sneck’ on t’ door (toilet door); 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for t’ brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were me area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for me interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”; 0:42:26 but we can tell a Sutton person straightaway ’cause they do talk different to us, don’t they? (yeah, they do) yeah (they do that))

DISCOURSE utterance initial mind (0:14:51 (sometimes I don’t think we’d understand what they were saying) (no) (like if they come up here they wouldn’t understand half of what we were saying) (they wouldn’t understand us, no, they wouldn’t you’re right) they reckon we talk fast mind, you talk fast, don’t you?) utterance initial see (0:30:41 see, them them people who’s reading t’ news and all this they it’s in front on them what they’ve got to say and they can’t veer from that whereas we can) utterance final and that (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 39 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that; 0:12:26 everybody spoke different but you you understand understood when you’d been there for a bit say a week or something you got into what they were saying and that) utterance final like (0:05:41 (and are there special words and terms down the pit? […]) oh aye, yeah, ‘snap’ (oh aye, “you got your snap?”) ‘snap’ ‘wat…’ (‘cleats’, isn’t there?) yeah, ‘cleats’ and, “have a drink of water” ([…] what’s that?) (uh) eh (how can you describe it) yeah (piece of wood shaped) like a wedge (like a wedge it’s a ‘cleat’) used to bang it in pit props, you know, to hold t’ roof, like, put a cleat in and that; 0:22:03 (as you were walking by we’d say, “look at that, Alf, I’d gie her one, wouldn’t you?”) (yeah) ‘wouldn’t you’ (yeah) (that’s it, aye) out of ears… uh earshot of t’ missus, like (oh aye, yeah); 0:30:30 “blow him up they want kill him, like” you know what I mean, they wouldn’t let you do that on t’ on t’ BBC, would they, say they’d say, “you can’t do that”; 0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for t’ brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were me area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for me interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”) utterance final you see (0:08:13 (there isn’t a ‘R’ in ‘bath’ it’s a ‘bath’ not a ‘bath’) (think they’ve got a gob full of plums, don’t they?) (that’s the posh buggers that think theirse… think they’re smart-arse) we use Queen’s English round here, you see, that’s how she talks and all; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so) utterance internal like (0:01:46 well we shorten words (that’s right shorten) and we and we sort of put them all together as well, like, “get out of here” (yeah) as, like, one type of word, don’t we, rather than (yeah, “have you got her with you where is she?”); 0:02:02 and we always joi…, like, join it together, don’t we really? (yeah); 0:12:43 it’s just that it’s gone on generation after generation, hasn’t it, (yeah) ’cause, like, when we were all at school kids at school we were taught to say the ends of the words, you know, and put your aitches on beginning of words but as soon as you got home ([…]) you just carried on what, you know, (you forgot aitch there ‘home’) how your mam and dad, yeah, how your mam and dads talk; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so; 0:28:05 uh a lot of Geordies have been down this way so bits like that we I suppose we’ve, like, pinched off them, haven’t we really; 0:29:15 I suppose they’ve got do for their jobs but, l... like, if they if you go somewhere and they want you to they say they want you to speak right [...] and them sort of things I can’t understand why they try and do that) intensifier right (0:01:19 (do you think you talk like Mansfield people?) (yes) oh aye, spot on we do, don’t we? (oh, I think we all do) sounds right rough when you listen to it I think, doesn’t it? (it does we sound common); 0:10:22 women swear worse than men in here right rough tarts come in here sometimes oops but some lovely customers though as well; 0:27:14 ‘person in trendy clothes’ and that I put I put ‘flashy’ but you would say, you know, “flashy twat” (I didn’t put aught for that) things like that, you know, or a ‘tart’, “looks a right tart, she does” (yeah, I didn’t put aught for that); 0:31:07 (I were gonna say I bet you still made as many sales just talking, yeah) oh aye, yeah, ’cause they said, “he’s right down-to-earth that lad, you know, (that’s it) no airs and graces or aught; 0:35:40 and I were right proud of taking them out ’cause they’d sound sounded right posh and I used to say, “go on say ‘hello’ to this” “hello” say, “that’s my nieces, they are, I’ve learnt them to talk right like that”; 0:36:54 yeah, that’s what I say when you asked earlier I would be really interested to know what folks in t’ other parts of t’ country did think of our accent when they hear us when I hear us on telly I think, “God, we sound right rough here, mate”) form of address cock (0:33:13 the gaffer that I first had a very first interview with for t’ brewery he he’s actually retired now, like, but once he were me area manager I spoke to him exactly like this but when I went for me interview I spoke a little bit different once I were in I were in, you know what I mean, I

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 40 of 41 BBC Voices Recordings thought, “that’s it got it now, cock, talk how I like”; 0:33:36 (I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it?) yeah (you say mainly ‘duck’) ‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again (yeah, ‘flower’) ‘old lad’) form of address duck (0:02:51 if you say it to some some lads I went up uh Yorkshire and I said it to them I says, “how you going on, duck?” uh they started pulling their head down said, “ey up, he’s here again and he’s ducking”; 0:16:20 (well there’s not many local landlords left, is there, and landladies) no, there isn’t, duck, no (no, they’re all coming from and all over t’ place, aren’t they?) (no, no, well these young’uns managers, aren’t they?) (yeah) (here for couple of month then they get kicked out)) form of address flower (0:33:36 (I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it?) yeah (you say mainly ‘duck’) ‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again (yeah, ‘flower’) ‘old lad’) form of address old lad (0:33:36 (I mean sometimes you say ‘love’ or but mainly ‘duck’, isn’t it?) yeah (you say mainly ‘duck’) ‘cock’, yeah, ‘flower’ now and again (yeah, ‘flower’) ‘old lad’) form of address youth (0:38:36 we can walk down town come down town and we see […] “ey up, are you all right, ey up, are you all right how you going on, youth?” “all right, mate, yeah”) otiose what (0:06:19 other men’d laugh at you, wouldn’t they? (oh aye) (oh aye) if if you’d’ve spoke different to your gaffer than what you were speaking they’d think, “look at him putting it on”, you know (oh yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, “arsehole”) yeah, “arsehole”, yeah, they would; 0:17:30 I think Nottingham can be a bit iffy on on, like, being welcoming you in I think we’re a bit easier in Mansfield (yeah) than what they are in Notts (yeah) we’re only a town, aren’t we, you see, that’s a big city so) otiose that (0:42:26 (but we can tell a Sutton person straightaway ’cause they do talk different to us, don’t they?) yeah, they do (yeah) they do that)

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