BBC VOICES RECORDINGS http://sounds.bl.uk Title: Gorey, Jersey Shelfmark: C1190/39/02 Recording date: 06.05.2005 Speakers: Bond, Theresa Ann (Teri), b. 1954 Torquay, Devon; female; supply teacher (father b. Torquay, middle management; mother b. Exeter, civil servant & housewife) Luxton, Suzanne Valerie (Val), b. Timperley, Cheshire; female; retired PE teacher (father b. Jersey, civil servant; mother b. Cheshire, secretary) Walker, Jean Elizabeth, b. 1951 Shillong, Assam, India; female; retired teacher (father b. Wallsend, Northumberland, engineer; mother b. Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, secretary) The interviewees are all school teachers in Grouville. 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 Dictionary of the Scots Language (online) ♪ see Dictionnaithe Jerriais-Angliais (2005) ∆ see New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) ◊ see Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) ♥ see Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (2014) ♦ see Urban Dictionary (online) ⌂ no previous source (with this sense) identified pleased chuffed (“I’m reet chuffed”○1 used as child in north in past); thrilled; happy; ecstatic (recently used in assignment by pupil) tired all in; knackered (“I’m bloody knackered” considered impolite); very tired; exhausted; worn-out; at the end of my tether; tired unwell poorly (“proper poorly”); sick; under the weather; out of sorts (also used for ‘moody’); fragile; hung-over; unnecessary2 (“I came over all unnecessary” considered common used 1 English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) records ‘reet’ in sense of ‘right/very’. http://sounds.bl.uk Page 1 of 4 BBC Voices Recordings locally, liked); “I came over a bit queer” (associated with ‘Round the Horne’3, considered inappropriate now) hot boiling; menopausal⌂; sweating; roasting; hot and bothered4; baking; clarty5 (“it’s reet clarty”○1 used of “sticky” weather); clammy cold freezing; parky (“proper parky”); brass monkeys (“it’s a bit brass monkeys” used frequently by father, thought to derive from Services’ expression “it’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”) annoyed furious; pissed off; fed up; irritated; aggravated; fuming; cross; mad (“I’m mad with you”); chuffed-off6 (heard used for “pissed off”) throw toss; hurl; chuck (used negatively of “unfocused/haphazard/undirected” throw); jettison (not used); pitch (“pitch it up” used of e.g. cricket ball); welly; bowl, lob (“lob it gently under- arm” used of e.g. cricket ball) play truant hookey; skiving; taking a sickie; throw a sickie◊; AWOL, going AWOL (used by Forces, still used now); French leave◊7 (used in past); bunk off∆; done a bunk∆; on a course⌂ (used jokingly within family) sleep snooze (of evening sleep in front of TV); nod off; doze (of “drifting/semi-consciousness” sleep while e.g. listening to BBC Radio Jersey); kip (of “decent sleep”); shut-eye (of daytime sleep); forty winks (of brief sleep that “sometimes turns into eighty winks/hundred- and-twenty winks”); go for a nap (of afternoon sleep) play a game play hit hard welly (“give it a bit more welly” also used of volume when e.g. singing); hammer; bash; clout; whack (of uncontrolled shot in tennis, also used of person); thump, thrashed, smacked, walloped (of hitting person) clothes gear; kit (esp. of sports clothes) trousers kecks; pants; trews (esp. of tartan trousers in past); slacks (esp. of beige trousers in past); chinos; jeans child’s shoe plimmies∆; pumps (of black elasticated shoes worn for PE, not used locally, used now of “fashion ballet shoes”); daps (“put your daps on” used locally by infant school children of black elasticated shoes); sand-shoes (used in past of lace-up shoes worn outdoors); plimsolls (“can you pop your plimsolls on?” of elasticated shoes worn by infant school/nursery class children, also used of white lace-up shoes worn for tennis); trainers (worn by children of all ages now); Green Flash8 (of shoes worn for tennis in past, thought to be forerunner of modern ‘trainers’); Nikes♦ (“can I wear my Nikes?” heard used recently by child at school) mother mum (used as older child); mummy (used as young child, “affectionate”); mater (used when learning Latin); mother (suggested by interviewer, “oh, mother” used to own mother when angry); ma 2 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘to come over all unnecessary’ in sense of ‘to be suddenly overcome with excitement’. 3 British radio comedy series originally broadcast 1965 to 1968 on BBC Light Programme. 4 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘hot and bothered’ in sense of ‘agitated/flustered/uncomfortable’. 5 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘clarty’ in sense of ‘sticky/viscous’; English Dialect Dictionary (1898- 1905) records ‘clarty’ in sense of ‘(of weather) bad/foul’. 6 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘chuffing’ in sense of ‘fucking’ and ‘fucked-off’ in this sense. 7 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) records ‘French leave’ in sense of ‘absenting oneself from job/duty without permission’. 8 Long-established sports shoe brand manufactured by British sporting goods company Dunlop since 1930s . http://sounds.bl.uk Page 2 of 4 BBC Voices Recordings gmother granny; ma9 (used of Jersey grandmother); manman♪ (used in Jersey); oma (used by Dutch neighbour, liked); granny Phil (used to distinguish between maternal/paternal grandmother); nana (pronunciation “nannah” preferred by husband’s mother of self as considered more “upmarket” than “grandma”); nannan10 (suggested by interviewer, not used); nan (used by sister’s grandchildren); grandma (thought to sound younger than “nana”) m partner boyfriend; significant other (“do you have a significant other you’d like to bring along?” used to in order to avoid potential embarrassment about marital status when e.g. inviting work colleague to party, disliked); “his name” (i.e. by name), my lover (of own husband when living together before marriage); partner (disliked); other half; hubby, better half (disliked when used by others of own husband) friend (not discussed) gfather pop♦ (suggested by interviewer, used by uncle’s grandchildren); gramps11 (used by sister’s grandchildren, liked); pa♦; papa♪ (used in Jersey); grandad; grandpa; opa (used by Dutch neighbour, liked); poppy♦12; pops♦ (thought to sound old) forgot name thing; thingummybobba♦; whatsit; thingmebob◊; thingummybob∆; you know; widget (“where’s the widget thing to unscrew the radiator cap?” of tool); thingummyjig∆ (suggested by interviewer, used, old-fashioned); oojah-ma-flip∆ (used by father) kit of tools DIY box13; tool-kit; tool-box trendy chav; tart; slapper; sex-kitten14 f partner girlfriend; partner (“my father’s partner”), “by name” (i.e. by name), friend (of own father’s co-habiting partner); significant other (“do you have a significant other you’d like to bring along?” used to in order to avoid potential embarrassment about marital status when e.g. inviting work colleague to party, disliked) baby bairn; babby○; kid; baby; sproglet◊; brat; ankle-biter (“American”); sprog (“naval term”); offspring (“do you have to bring the offspring?” used by others of own children in past, disliked) rain heavily pelting; pouring; cloud-bursts; stair-rods; sheeting down; raining cats and dogs; cats and dogs toilet loo; bog; bathroom; john; George◊15 (used by in past, considered “posh way of saying going to the john”); shunkie† (“Scotticism”); throne; throne room◊; houses of parliament◊ (used by grandmother); biffy (used in Canada of outside toilet); can; pot (“are you on the pot”, also used of ‘cannabis’) walkway passage; lane; snicket; ginnel; alleyway; back alley; alley; cut (used in Somerset, “up the cut” used in Midlands for ‘canal’) long seat sofa (of seat in drawing-room); settee (of seat in sitting-room); settle (of hard seat) run water brook; beck; burn; stream; spring; leat (used in Devon); reans, rhines (used in Somerset) main room drawing-room (used in past of family room not used by children/used after withdrawing from dining-room); sitting-room (“family sitting-room” in past); lounge; parlour; front room; living-room; morning room (used of ‘breakfast room’ in contrast to main room) 9 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘ma’ in sense of ‘mother’. 10 ‘London marathon bid for Sheffield Nannan of Steel’ (see http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/london-marathon-bid-for- sheffield-nannan-of-steel-1-6555999) includes ‘nannan’ in this sense. 11 Collins Dictionary (online edition at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/) includes ‘garmps’ in this sense. 12 Urban Dictionary (online) records ‘pop’ in this sense. 13 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘DIY’ in sense of ‘do-it-yourself’. 14 Oxford English Dictionary (online edition) records ‘sex-kitten’ in sense of ‘young woman who asserts/exploits her sexual attractiveness’. 15 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (3020) records ‘George the Third’ in sense of ‘piece of excrement/turd’. http://sounds.bl.uk Page 3 of 4 BBC Voices Recordings rain lightly mizzle (of “misty drizzle/mixture of mist and drizzle”); drizzle; dreich† (“Scottish” for “miserable and drizzly” esp. in phrase “a dreich day”); drizzling rich Jersey local⌂ (used within family, suggested jokingly as used within family); loaded; rolling16; rolling in it17; posh (associated with Posh and Becks18, thought to derive from “port out starboard home”19)