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well = very, really (0:52:57 no, you’re not ‘boiling’ and you’re not ‘freezing’ but you just say, “oh I’m
well hot” or “I’m boiling”, like over exaggerating a little bit; 0:55:41 (“I’m happy with that”) (“I’m
pleased”) I normally say ‘well’ at the beginning of it, “I’m well happy”; 1:01:41 (yeah, ‘loaded’) (I’d say
‘rich’) yeah, “you’re well rich” (yeah, ‘well rich’); 1:05:59 I just say, “oh he looks really nice he looks
well nice” (I just say, “he’s really good-looking”) yeah, but there ain’t many good-looking ones; 1:18:16
my mum, like, ’cause she teaches young people to drive she’ll say some she said to me the other day, “oh,
I’m well vexed” and it means angry)
wicked = cool, great (0:40:50 ‘pow pow’ means summat like ‘wicked wicked’; 0:41:06 not even my sister I
talked with my friend on the internet and he’s always like, “rago” and he even changed my MSN
8
name to
‘rago’ “mans are rago” which means ‘the man is wicked’ so it’s quite weird actually the way people talk
(that’s weird, yeah))
vexed = angry (1:18:16 my mum, like, ’cause she teaches young people to drive she’ll say some she said to
me the other day, “oh, I’m well vexed” and it means angry)
yard = house, home (1:21:28 (my friend’s MSN
8
name is ‘I’m representing and I’m the hood’) and ‘yard’
I’m like, “yeah, what the hell does ‘hood’ mean?”) ‘house’ they always say ‘house’ these days it’s my
‘yard’ (I hate that word))
PHONOLOGY
KIT
[
ɪ
]
(0:14:50 when you go to India [
ɪndia
] and you talk in Punjabi they say that we’ve got an English [
ɪŋglɪʃ
]
accent to it (yeah) which is really weird because I try talking, like, you try talking like them and you, like,
just proper pick [
pɪk
] it up; 0:22:59 my sister [
sɪstə
] didn’t [
dɪnʔ
] ta… use to talk Punjabi at all and it
used to be quite funny actually and now she’s just been to India [
ɪndiɐ
] and she’s listening [
lɪsnɪn
]
obviously to Indian [
ɪndiən
] music [
muːzɪk
] and she actually talks it (yeah) ’cause she sings [
sɪŋgz
] it and
if [
ɪf
] you sing [
sɪŋg
] it (yeah, you pick [
pɪk
] it up) I think [
fɪŋk
] it, yeah, you pick [
pɪk
] it up more when
you sing [
sɪŋg
] it (yeah) it depends [
dɪpɛnz
] what kind of learner you are really; 0:32:05 if you said a
swear-word when you were little [
lɪtʊ
] you were you did [
dɪd
] actually mean it in a vicious [
vɪʃəs
] way
but I don’t think [
θɪŋk
] it’s vicious [
vɪʃəs
] any more I think [
θɪŋk
] it’s just our part of our dialect (it
depends [
dɪpɛndz
] how you say it I think [
fɪŋk
] ))
<-em, ex> (0:40:27 sometimes it’s really embarrassing [
ɪmbaɹəsɪn
] as well because someone will
say summat to you and their mates will understand (yeah, and they start laughing) and they’re
laughing at you (we’re like, “hello, what you on about?”) you don’t know what they’re on about
and you’ll be like, “please tell me what that word you said” and they’ll be like, “no, oh it don’t
matter nothing”; 0:51:58 (‘knackered’) (‘knackered’, yeah, people are ‘knackered’) (‘shattered’)
‘exhausted’ [
ɪgzɔːstɪd
] (‘tired’ I use) (‘shattered’, yeah, I use all them words) there’s loads of
words, yeah (‘can’t be bothered’); 1:10:56 they do actually (so they do, yeah) some people do say
that ‘cause they want to go and put make-up on or summat ’cause they’re embarrassed [
ɪmbaɹəst
]
to say, “I want to go to the toilet” (yeah); 1:24:58 everyone goes through it (when we go to
university we’ll speak we will speak better I know that) I’ll sp… want to speak well for my children
and show them a good example [
ɪgzampʊ
])
DRESS
[
ɛ
]
(0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then [
ðɛn
] I moved to Burton on Trent [
bəːʔn̟ ɒn tɹɛnʔ
] because my
parents bought a fish and chip shop um and then [
ðɛn
] I’ve moved back to Bedworth [
bɛdwəːθ
] and that’s
where I’ve lived ever [
ɛvə
] since; 0:06:42 when [
wɛn
] I was little I used to talk all cute and, you know,
never [
nɛvə
] used to say anything [
ɛnɪfɪn
] out of touch or anything [
ɛnɪfɪŋ
]; 0:31:08 um our speech gets
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[
gɛʔs
] lazy (it does) we don’t say the words fully it’s, like, we’ll drop out letters [
lɛʔəz
] and stuff and, […]
like, ‘can’t be arsed’ or (yeah) ‘mother’ ‘mum’)
tell, well (0:01:48 yeah, they do ask but you can normally tell [
tæʊ
] from the way someone speaks
like if you go to Birmingham you know with the accent where they’re from but people have to ask
me and my cousin ’cause we she comes from Leamington where we’re from ’cause they can’t
really tell [
tæʊ
] by the way we speak; 0:13:29 well [
wæɫ
] yeah, my other grandparents are dead
but my grandad my dad’s dad was born here or he had he came over when he was really young;
0:52:57 no, you’re not ‘boiling’ and you’re not ‘freezing’ but you just say, “oh I’m well [
wæɫ
]
hot” or “I’m boiling”, like over exaggerating a little bit; 0:55:41 (“I’m happy with that”) (“I’m
pleased”) I normally say ‘well’ [
waɫ
] at the beginning of it, “I’m well [
waɫ
] happy”; 1:01:41
(yeah, ‘loaded’) (I’d say ‘rich’) yeah, “you’re well [
wæɫ
] rich” (yeah, ‘well [
wæɫ
] rich’); 1:05:59
I just say, “oh he looks really nice he looks well [
wæɫ
] nice” (I just say, “he’s really good-
looking”) yeah, but there ain’t many good-looking ones; 1:24:58 everyone goes through it (when
we go to university we’ll speak we will speak better I know that) I’ll sp… want to speak well [
wæʊ
]
for my children and show them a good example)
TRAP~BATH
[
a
]
(0:01:48 yeah, they do ask [
ask
] but you can normally tell from the way someone speaks like if you go to
Birmingham you know with the accent [
aksənʔ
] where they’re from but people have to ask [
ask
] me and
my cousin ’cause we she comes from Leamington where we’re from ’cause they can’t really tell by the
way we speak; 0:07:43 they, like, add [
ad
] random [
ɹandʊm
] people and it’s like, “oh my God, how do you
know this person?” (yeah and they’re talking about this that and the other and cutting short words and
stuff) yeah, and they’re talking all this, yeah, weird language [
laŋgwɪʤ
]; 0:11:51 but it’s, like, sometimes
we laugh [
laf
] at him but we shouldn’t really because it’s it’s just funny the accents [
aksənts
] are just
sometimes really funny; 0:25:39 Pakistan [
pakɪstan
] is (next) kind of (yeah) on the border of India, isn’t it,
yeah)
LOT~CLOTH
[
ɒ
]
(0:00:19 I was born in Coventry [
kɒvəntɹiː
] and then I moved to Burton on Trent [
bəːʔn̟ ɒn tɹɛnʔ
] because
my parents bought a fish and chip shop [
ʃɒp
] um and then I’ve moved back to Bedworth and that’s where
I’ve lived ever since; 0:05:32 but if you hear someone shouting at you across [
əkɹɒs
] a street then you’re
obviously [
ɒbviəsli
] you’re going to be like, (get really offended) “get lost” [
lɒst
]; 0:15:55 (it’s like it’s
like they’re shouting) I mean if we stayed in India for longer [
lɒŋga
] (we’d pick up) we would pick up on it
(yeah) it’s, like, when I went India in August I actually picked up on [
ɒn
] quite a lot [
lɒʔ
] of things (yeah)
but we’ve still got [
gɒʔ
] an English accent no matter what [
wɒʔ
])
STRUT
[
ə > ʊ
]
(0:02:16 yeah, there’s a lot ’cause my cousin [
kəzən
] lives in Wolverhampton and they use a lot of
different, like, um words to us [
əs
] and it’s quite hard to understand [
ʊndəstand
] but I think it’s because
of the, like, African Caribbean culture as [
kʊɫʧəɹ əz
] well there that they all use different words; 0:13:29
well, yeah, my other [
əðə
] grandparents are dead but my grandad my dad’s dad was born here or he had
he came over when he was really young [
jʊŋ
]; 0:31:08 um our speech gets lazy (it does) we don’t say the
words fully it’s, like, we’ll drop out letters and stuff [
stʊf
] and, […] like, ‘can’t be arsed’ or (yeah)
‘mother’ [
məðə
] ‘mum’ [
mʊm
]; 0:32:24 yeah, we get told off a lot for it if my mum [
mʊm
] does notice
she’ll tell us [
ʊz
] off for it ’cause I’ve got a younger [
jʊŋgə
] brother [
bɹəðə
] and also she’s, “if you want
to speak like that you don’t you can speak like that with your friends but you don’t speak like that in this
house”)
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ONE
(0:05:32 but if you hear someone [
səmwɒn
] shouting at you across a street then you’re
obviously you’re going to be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:32:17 that’s once [
wʊns
] or
twice; 0:47:34 but then there’s nothing [
nʊθɪŋk
] wrong with cheap stuff if you can get it cheaper
why not get it cheaper (no, but it’s the way they wear it) (yeah, but there’s a limit, innit, to how
much gold you wear); 0:58:46 ‘bad’ is supposed to be ‘good’ (yeah) and, like, ‘phat’ doesn’t have
any ‘phat’ and ‘phat’s’ got nothing [
nʊθɪŋ
] (“that’s phat, that is”) to do with someone being ‘fat’
(summat like ‘heavy’); 1:09:47 sometimes you just come out with anything (yeah) you’re just like,
“going toilet” or whatever (“need a wee”) yeah, that’s it that’s the one [
wɒn
])
FOOT
[
ʊ > ɵ
]
(0:11:51 but it’s, like, sometimes we laugh at him but we shouldn’t [
ʃʊdənʔ
] really because it’s it’s just
funny the accents are just sometimes really funny; 1:05:59 I just say, “oh he looks [
lʊks
] really nice he
looks [
lʊks
] well nice” (I just say, “he’s really good-looking” [
gɵdlɵkɪn
] ) yeah, but there ain’t many
good-looking [
gʊdlʊkɪŋ
] ones)
NURSE
[
əː
]
(0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then I moved to Burton on Trent [
bəːʔn̟ ɒn tɹɛnʔ
] because my parents
bought a fish and chip shop um and then I’ve moved back to Bedworth [
bɛdwəːθ
] and that’s where I’ve
lived ever since; 0:04:39 well there’s, like, words [
wəːdz
] you know, like, different words [
wəːdz
] for, like,
she’s my ‘girlfriend’ [
gəːɫfɹɛnd
] (she’s my ‘shorty’))
girl (0:26:14 but I’m not really embarrassed it’s, like, I went Southampton everyone’s, like, really,
’cause I think there’s more English people there and they go to, like, all boys and girls [
gʲəʊz
]
school and my cousins like, “if I spoke like that at school everyone would really, like, take” (the
mickey) yeah; 0:30:42 but even words like ‘girl’ [
gəːɫ
] they’re like, “girl” [
gaɫ
])
FLEECE
[
iː
]
(0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other people [
piːpɫ̩
] from other areas
might think people [
piːpɫ̩
] from Bedworth have an accent but I don’t think we have not a broad accent, no;
0:31:08 um our speech [
spiːʧ
] gets lazy (it does) we don’t say the words fully it’s, like, we’ll drop out
letters and stuff and, […] like, ‘can’t be arsed’ or (yeah) ‘mother’ ‘mum’)
FACE
[
ɛɪ
]
(0:00:47 um I was born in Coventry in Walsgrave Hospital [
wɔːɫzgɹɛɪv hɒspɪʔɫ̩
] and I’ve always
[
ɔːɫwɛɪz
] lived in the same [
sɛɪm
] place [
plɛɪs
] and I’ve never really moved away [
əwɛɪ
] that’s it; 0:01:17
mum and dad moved to Exhall and then about a year later [
lɛɪʔa
] they had me so I’ve lived here all my
life; 0:31:08 um our speech gets lazy [
lɛɪzi
] (it does) we don’t say [
sɛɪ
] the words fully it’s, like, we’ll drop
out letters and stuff and, […] like, ‘can’t be arsed’ or (yeah) ‘mother’ ‘mum’)
ain’t (0:20:23 I mean my parents ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
] very reli… religious but they do like us talking in
Punjabi; 0:22:50 but like you said before (street life) they’re influenced by the, like, um music as
well, like (yeah) they really are influenced though, ain’t [
ɪnʔ
] they? (definitely); 0:25:03 everyone’s
allowed their choice why ain’t [
ɛnʔ
] we allowed our choice; 0:26:03 Southampton there ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
]
many Asian peop… my cousins live in Southampton and they’re really, like, they’re really, like,
really posh comparing to me; 0:57:34 (“you’re on crack” I hate it when people say that) (“you’re
chatting” it’s they’ll be like, “you’re chatting shit” like that) when you’re ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
] that when
you’re ‘mad’?; 1:02:36 (I’ve really) (I’ve just got so used to saying it now) actually I don’t usually
say ‘skint’ either I just say, “I ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
] got no money” (I don’t like it at all); 1:02:52 (what do
you say then, Anita?) um “haven’t got no money” if you’re say… if you’re poor, “I haven’t got
any money” (or, “I ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
] got no money”) yeah, “I ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
] got no money”; 1:05:59 I just
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say, “oh he looks really nice he looks well nice” (I just say, “he’s really good-looking”) yeah, but
there ain’t [
ɛɪnʔ
] many good-looking ones)
PALM~START
[
ɑː
]
(0:01:01 it’s all right ’cause we’re used to it (yeah) but otherwise I’d rather [
ɹɑːðə
] move away from here
(yeah, not the best place where we live); 0:02:16 yeah, there’s a lot ’cause my cousin lives in
Wolverhampton and they use a lot of different, like, um words to us and it’s quite hard [
hɑːd
] to
understand but I think it’s because of the, like, African Caribbean culture as well there that they all use
different words; 0:02:32 I won’t even understand what she’s going on about half [
hɑːf
] the time; 0:08:31
you only start [
stɑːʔ
] off writing it because it’s easier to write but you start [
stɑːʔ
] talking like it as well
(you start [
stɑːʔ
] getting into that cycle) yeah (where you’re not talking normal any more) yeah (well
what’s seen as normal); 0:31:08 um our speech gets lazy (it does) we don’t say the words fully it’s, like,
we’ll drop out letters and stuff and, […] like, ‘can’t [
kɑːnʔ
] be arsed’ [
ɑːst
] or (yeah) ‘mother’ ‘mum’;
0:46:01 (I don’t know maybe they were words ages ago from civilisation) yeah, even, like, for ‘auntie’
[
ɑːnti
] and ‘uncle’)
THOUGHT~NORTH~FORCE
[
ɔː
]
(0:00:19 I was born [
bɔːn
] in Coventry and then I moved to Burton on Trent because my parents bought
[
bɔːʔ
] a fish and chip shop um and then I’ve moved back to Bedworth and that’s where I’ve lived ever
since; 0:08:31 (you only start off writing it because it’s easier to write but you start talking [
tɔːkɪn
] like it
as well) you start getting into that cycle (yeah) where you’re not talking [
tɔːkɪn
] normal [
nɔːmʊ
] any
more (yeah) well what’s seen as normal [
nɔːmʊ
]; 0:14:20 even when you go India and you talk [
tɔːk
] in
Punjabi (it’s different) I mean I’m comparing to a lot of people here I can talk [
tɔːk
] a lot of Punjabi
which is why they call [
kɔːɫ
] me a ‘freshy’)
GOAT
[
əʊ
]
(0:01:28 Standard English I don’t [
dəʊnʔ
] really know [
nəʊ
] if I’ve got an accent other people from other
areas might think people from Bedworth have an accent but I don’t [
dəʊnʔ
] think we have not a broad
accent, no [
nəʊ
]; 0:34:08 one person I know [
nəʊ
] he’s always like, “oh [
əʊ
] you’ve got loads [
ləʊdz
] of
boyfriends you’re a slag you’re this”; 0:43:37 we’re on the phone [
fəʊn
] to summat and it’s like, (“put the
phone [
fəʊn
] down”) they just accuse you (yeah, yeah) or that you’re on the phone [
fəʊn
] to a boy just so
[
səʊ
] controlling (yeah) and it’s just society now and it shouldn’t be like that)
don’t know (0:02:52 I don’t know [
dənəʊ
] it depends (yeah) where you’re brought up really
(yeah) and who you hang around with (yeah); 0:46:01 I don’t know [
dənəʊ
] maybe they were
words ages ago from civilisation (yeah, even, like, for ‘auntie’ and ‘uncle’); 0:55:23 (I find it
really I fi… ‘chilly’s’ one of them words) not rea… (that it can mean ‘hot’ and ‘cold’) ‘chilly’ I
don’t know [
dənəʊ
] (“bit chilly in here”) but it sounds like ‘chilling’, don’t it, when you’re
relaxing)
going to (0:05:32 but if you hear someone shouting at you across a street then you’re obviously
you’re going to [
gənə
] be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:35:24 he goes to me he said
summat like, “yeah, you’re going to [
gənə
] get battered” or summat it’s, like, even some of the
words they use like ‘battered’ and stuff it’s not even, like, proper language, “you’re going to
[
gənə
] get I’m going to [
amənə
] get my mans on to you” it’s like, “hello” they’re not even proper
it’s not even a proper language that they’re talking; 1:10:45 sometimes people say, “I’m going to
[
gənə
] go and lighten myself up” or summat, “I’m” as in, “I’m going to [
gənə
] put go and put
make-up on” I think they do anyway […] ‘brighten’ or ‘lighten’ one or the other; 1:13:31 even if
I’m not going to [
gənə
] go sleep I just say, “I’m going to bed” (yeah); 1:15:21 “I’m going to
[
gənə
] whack” you I’d say to someone or (“I’m going to [
gənə
] chuck it” as in ‘hit it hard’ ‘chuck
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