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Title:

Llanelli, Carmarthenshire

Shelfmark:

C1190/41/08

Recording date:

23.03.2005

Speakers: Lewis, Carys, b. 1986 Swansea; female; student (father b. Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire; mother b. Swansea, housewife) Phillips, Rhian, b. 1969 Llanelli; female; mother (father b. Llanelli, builder; mother volunteer) Rees, Paul, b. 1963 Glasgow; male; brass manager at builders’ merchant (father b. Cardigan, Ceredigion, HGV driver; mother b. Lamlash, Isle of Arran, hospital cleaner) Luke, b. 1988 Carmarthen; male; college student (mother b. Neath, nursing home worker) Richards, Aled Rhys, b. 1984 Llanelli; male; student (father b. Llangenech, Carmarthenshire; mother b. Llanelli, teacher) Spencer, Gemma, b. 1985 Swansea; female; student (father b. Swansea, welder; mother b. Llanelli, housewife) Standfield, Peter, b. 1984 Carmarthen; male (father b. Carmarthen, admin. assistant; mother b. Kidwelly, housewife) Williams, Ian, b. 1968 Swansea; male; sales representative (father b. Llanelli, fitter & pub landlord; mother b. Llanelli, caterer)

The interviewees are all members of Llanelli Scarlets Supporters’ Club.

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 Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (online) ♣ see Wenglish. The Dialect of the South Wales Valleys (2008)

∆ see New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) ◊ see Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) ♦ see Urban Dictionary (online) ⌂ no previous source (with this sense) identified

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 1 of 3 BBC Voices Recordings pleased chuffed tired knackered; shattered unwell ill; bad (“I’m bad”); rough hot boiling cold freezing annoyed peed off; cheesed off; mad throw lug≠1; chuck also supplied twlad (“slang” for “taflu”≠ , i.e. Welsh for ‘to throw’) play truant mitch; skive sleep crash out◊; kip; doze off play a game (not discussed) hit hard smack; lamp (“give him a lamp”); whack; thump clothes clothes; gear trousers trow♦; trousers child’s shoe daps (most common locally); trainers (used by young speakers) mother mam; mami≠; the old dear gmother mam2; nan; mamgu♣ (Welsh for ‘grandmother’) m partner the man friend mate; buddy; bro gfather grandad; gramps3 ♣ also supplied tadcu (Welsh for ‘grandfather’) forgot name thing; what’s-his-face∆ (of person); damno≠4 kit of tools tool-kit; tool-box trendy chav; scruff; gypo∆; twat⌂ f partner bird; missus; girlfriend; the wench; her indoors (“politically correct”) baby baby; sprog rain heavily lash5; pour down; piss down toilet bog; loo; tŷ bach♣ walkway alley; path long seat sofa; couch; settee run water stream main room living-room; lounge; pit◊6 (“off to my pit now”) rain lightly pick♣7; drizzle rich loaded left-handed lefty; split-brain⌂ unattractive humming8; minger; ugly; dog lack money skint; broke; brassic

1 Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (online edition at http://www.welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/) records ‘lluchio’’ in this sense. 2 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘mam’ in sense of ‘mother’. 3 Collins Dictionary (online edition at http://www.collinsdictionary.com/) includes ‘gramps’ in this sense. 4 Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (online edition at http://www.welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/) records ‘damno’ in sense of ‘damn’. 5 Macmillan Dictionary (online edition at http://www.macmillandictionary.com/) includes ‘lash down’ in this sense. 6 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) records ‘pit’ in sense of ‘untidy room’. 7 Robert Lewis’s Wenglish: The Dialect of the South Wales Valleys (2008) includes ‘pick with rain’ in this sense. 8 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘hum’ in sense of ‘to smell disagreeably’.

http://sounds.bl.uk Page 2 of 3 BBC Voices Recordings drunk smashed; bladdered∆; wasted; lashed (“I was lashed last night”); hammered∆ pregnant pregnant; up the duff attractive lush; stunner; doll insane mental; nuts; sponge-brain◊9 moody narked

© Robinson, Herring, Gilbert Voices of the UK, 2009-2012 A British Library project funded by The Leverhulme Trust

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

9 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) records ‘sponge’ in sense of ‘fool’.

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