Tregaron, Ceredigion

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Title:

Shelfmark:

C1190/41/21

Recording date:

22.03.2005

Speakers: Davies, Marian, b. 1948 London; female; Aberystwyth University (father b. Sengennhydd, Glamorgan, dairyman; mother b. London, housewife) Evans, Nerys Ann, b. 1977 Tregaron; female; family coach business (father b. Tregaron, director; mother b. Tregaron, director) Hughes, Catherine, b. 1959 Tregaron; female; post office (father b. Newport, farmer; mother b. Lampeter, Cardiganshire, farmer) Hughes, Susannah, b. 1933 Tregaron; female (father b. Tregaron, hospital porter; mother b. Cardiganshire, housewife) Williams, Hefin, b. 1952 Tregaron; male; church warden (father b. Aberystwyth, postman; mother b. Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, housewife)

The interviewees are all friends from Tregaron.

PLEASE NOTE: this recording is still awaiting full linguistic description (i.e. phonological, grammatical and spontaneous lexical items).

A summary of the specific lexis elicited by the interviewer is given below.

ELICITED LEXIS

○ see English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) ≠ see Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (online)

♣ see Wenglish. The Dialect of the South Wales Valleys (2008) ♦ see Urban Dictionary (online) pleased happy tired washed out♦; shattered; weary; knackered (depending on context) unwell ill; sick hot hot; warm cold cold

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 1 of 3 BBC Voices Recordings annoyed cross; offended throw fling play truant skive; escape1 sleep snooze (“snoozing”); dozing; kip play a game participate hit hard thump; smack clothes clothes; gear trousers trousers child’s shoe trainers (used by own children, considered different to ‘daps’); daps (most common in past, ridiculed by own children “they’re not daps, mam, for goodness’ sake”); gym shoes; pumps (old) mother mother (used when speaking English); mam, mami≠ (used when speaking Welsh/English) gmother nana; mamgu♣ (used by own grandchildren of self); grandmother (used when speaking English) m partner (not discussed) friend (not discussed) gfather (not discussed) forgot name (not discussed) kit of tools chest; tools trendy the modern miss⌂ f partner missus (“the missus”); wife (“the wife”) baby (not discussed) rain heavily pour (“pouring down”) toilet toilet; spend a penny walkway alleyway; pavement; gully○ long seat settee; chaise-longue; sofa run water stream; brook main room front room; living-room; lounge rain lightly drizzle rich loaded left-handed cack-handed unattractive ugly lack money skint; poor drunk smashed; drunk pregnant expecting a baby; expecting; pregnant attractive pretty insane mad moody gloomy

1 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘escape’ in sense of ‘to succeed in avoiding (anything painful/unwelcome)’.

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Assistance with transcription of Welsh entries provided by Cai Parry Jones British Library Oral History Curator (2017)

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