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it’); 1:20:22 our kids we’re going to [
gənə
] say they speak lazy (yeah) (yeah) and it’s not lazy it’s
just changing (yeah) I think)
GOAL
[
ɔʊ
]
(0:43:37 we’re on the phone to summat and it’s like, (“put the phone down”) they just accuse you (yeah,
yeah) or that you’re on the phone to a boy just so controlling [
kəntɹɔʊlɪŋ
] (yeah) and it’s just society now
and it shouldn’t be like that; 1:16:41 I think old [
ɔʊɫd
] people (just use) older [
ɔʊɫda
] people they don’t
their language is different because we’ve developed new language and they don’t really find it easy (that’s
then again ’cause of the generations) to adapt)
GOOSE
[
uː
]
(0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then I moved [
muːvd
] to Burton on Trent because my parents bought
a fish and chip shop um and then I’ve moved [
muːvd
] back to Bedworth and that’s where I’ve lived ever
since; 0:06:42 when I was little I used [
juːst
] to talk all cute [
kjuːʔ
] and, you know, never used [
juːst
] to
say anything out of touch or anything; 1:09:32 it’s weird ’cause I say it at school [
skuːɫ
] sometimes, “I’m
going to the bathroom” [
baθɹuːm
] and they’re like, “it’s not a ‘bathroom’” [
baθɹuːm
] (it’s actually a
‘toilet’) “it’s a ‘toilet’”)
PRICE
[
ɔɪ
]
(0:01:17 mum and dad moved to Exhall and then about a year later they had me so I’ve lived here all my
life [
lɔɪf
]; 0:08:31 you only start off writing [
ɹɔɪtɪn
] it because it’s easier to write [
ɹɔɪʔ
] but you start
talking like [
lɔɪk
] it as well (you start getting into that cycle [
sɔɪkʊ
] ) yeah (where you’re not talking
normal any more) yeah (well what’s seen as normal); 0:47:42 it’s the way they wear it as well (yeah
make-up and) like [
lɔɪk
] they wear things ten sizes [
sɔɪzɪz
] too small for them; 1:10:45 sometimes people
say, “I’m going to go and lighten [
bɹɔɪtən
] myself up” or summat, “I’m” as in, “I’m going to put go and
put make-up on” I think they do anyway […] brighten [
bɹɔɪtən
] or lighten [
lɔɪtən
] one or the other)
my (0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then I moved to Burton on Trent because my [
mə
] parents
bought a fish and chip shop um and then I’ve moved back to Bedworth and that’s where I’ve lived
ever since; 0:01:17 mum and dad moved to Exhall and then about a year later they had me so I’ve
lived here all my [
mə
] life; 0:13:29 well, yeah, my other grandparents are dead but my [
ma
]
grandad my [
mə
] dad’s dad was born here or he had he came over when he was really young;
0:20:23 I mean my [
mɔɪ
] parents ain’t very reli… religious but they do like us talking in Punjabi)
tired (0:51:58 ‘knackered’ (‘knackered’, yeah, people are ‘knackered’) ‘shattered’ (‘exhausted’)
‘tired’ [
tɔɪəd
] I use (‘shattered’, yeah, I use all them words) (there’s loads of words, yeah) ‘can’t
be bothered’)
vile (0:46:37 ‘babby’ just sounds, like, oh my God really vile [
vɔɪəɫ
])
CHOICE
[
ɔɪ
]
(0:25:03 everyone’s allowed their choice [
ʧɔɪs
] why ain’t we allowed our choice [
ʧɔɪs
]; 0:34:08 one
person I know he’s always like, “oh you’ve got loads of boyfriends [
bɔɪfɹɛndz
] you’re a slag you’re this”)
MOUTH
[
aʊ
]
(0:05:32 but if you hear someone shouting [
ʃaʊʔɪn
] at you across a street then you’re obviously you’re
going to be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:09:32 (yeah, you’d say, “laugh out [
aʊʔ
] loud [
laʊd
] ”)
but some people just use the term ‘LOL’ and they don’t even laugh out [
aʊʔ
] loud [
laʊd
]; 0:32:24 yeah, we
get told off a lot for it if my mum does notice she’ll tell us off for it ’cause I’ve got a younger brother 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” [
haʊs
])
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down, town
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(0:03:31 (any example of Bedworth slang?) ‘down town’ [
daːn taːn
] or is it ‘up
town’, [
taːn
] “get up town” [
taːn
])
our, shower (0:20:40 nowadays it’s a bit more hip and it’s a bit more trendy therefore you can use
it more and I think it broaden makes extends our [
ɑː
] language as well I think; 0:25:03 everyone’s
allowed their choice why ain’t we allowed our [
aʊə
] choice; 0:30:04 (they drop their aitches) yeah
(as well a lot and it’s like) that Yorkshire accent (yeah, it’s I don’t like it) it’s totally different to
our accent [
aːɹ aksənʔ
] ’cause my auntie talks really weird it’s really posh comparing to ours
[
ɑːz
]; 0:31:08 um our [
aː
] 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 be arsed’ or (yeah) ‘mother’ ‘mum’ or use an
example; 0:32:05 if you said a swear-word when you were little you were you did actually mean it
in a vicious way but I don’t think it’s vicious any more I think it’s just our [
ɑː
] part of our [
ɑː
]
dialect (it depends how you say it I think); 1:17:19 still they’ll say, like, if you’re having a shower
or [
ʃaʊəɹ ɔː
] something they’ll say, “I’m having a bath” even though you’re not having a bath
you’re having a shower [
ʃaʊə
] (yeah, you’re having a shower [
ʃaʊə
] ); 1:20:22 our [
ɑː
] kids we’re
going to say they speak lazy (yeah) (yeah) and it’s not lazy it’s just changing (yeah) I think)
NEAR
[
ɪː ~ ɪə > ɪa
]
(0:01:01 it’s all right ’cause we’re [
wɪː]
used to it (yeah) but otherwise I’d rather move away from here
[
hɪə
] (yeah, not the best place where we live); 0:05:32 but if you hear [
hɪː
] someone shouting at you
across a street then you’re obviously you’re going to be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:13:29 well,
yeah, my other grandparents are dead but my grandad my dad’s dad was born here [
hɪa
] or he had he
came over when he was really young; 0:14:50 when you go to India and you talk in Punjabi they say that
we’ve got an English accent to it (yeah) which is really [
ɹɪːli
] weird [
wɪəd
] because I try talking, like, you
try talking like them and you, like, just proper pick it up)
SQUARE
[
ɛː
]
(0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then I moved to Burton on Trent because my parents [
pɛːɹənts
]
bought a fish and chip shop um and then I’ve moved back to Bedworth and that’s where I’ve [
wɛːɹ av
]
lived ever since; 0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other people from
other areas [
ɛːɹiəz
] might think people from Bedworth have an accent but I don’t think we have not a
broad accent, no; 0:32:35 I think it’s just an age thing I think I will when I get to my parents [
pɛːɹənts
] I
think I won’t swear either [
swɛːɹ iːðə
] because it’s just it just doesn’t sound right)
CURE
[
ɔː
]
(0:52:23 (um OK how about ‘unwell’?) ‘poorly’ [
pɔːli
] (‘poorly’ [
pɔːli
] ) (‘ill’ I say) (‘poorly’ [
pɔːli
] ‘ill’)
‘under the weather’; 1:02:52 (what do you say then, Anita?) um “haven’t got no money” if you’re say… if
you’re poor, [
pɔː
] “I haven’t got any money” (or, “I ain’t got no money”) yeah, “I ain’t got no money”)
happ
Y
[
i(ː)
]
(0:00:19 I was born in Coventry [
kɒvəntɹiː
] and then I moved to Burton on Trent because my parents
bought a fish and chip shop um and then I’ve moved back to Bedworth and that’s where I’ve lived ever
since; 0:22:59 my sister didn’t ta… use to talk Punjabi [
pənʤɑːbi
] at all and it used to be quite funny
[
fəni
] actually [
akʧəli
] and now she’s just been to India and she’s listening obviously to Indian music and
she actually talks it (yeah) ’cause she sings it and if you sing it (yeah, you pick it up) I think it, yeah, you
pick it up more when you sing it (yeah) it depends what kind of learner you are really [
ɹɪːli
]; 0:30:04 (they
drop their aitches) yeah (as well a lot and it’s like) that Yorkshire accent (yeah, it’s I don’t like it) it’s
totally [
təʊʔəli
] different to our accent ’cause my auntie [
ɑːnti
] talks really [
ɹɪːli
] weird it’s really [
ɹɪːli
]
posh comparing to ours)
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This pronunciation is consciously ‘performed’ in imitation of speakers from Bedworth.
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lett
ER
[
ə > a > ɐ
]
(0:01:01 it’s all right ’cause we’re used to it but otherwise [
əðəwɔɪz
] I’d rather [
ɹɑːðə
] move away from
here (yeah, not the best place where we live); 0:06:42 when I was little I used to talk all cute and, you
know, never [
nɛvə
] used to say anything out of touch or anything; 0:14:28 a ‘freshy’ that’s someone that
actually comes from India and they come here [
hɪa
]; 0:41:06 not even my sister [
sɪstɐ
] 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); 0:52:23 (um OK how about ‘unwell’?) ‘poorly’ (‘poorly’) (‘ill’ I say) (‘poorly’ ‘ill’) ‘under [
əndə
]
the weather’ [
wɛðɐ
]; 1:11:56 look, it says ‘smaller [
smlɔːə
] than a river’ [
ɹɪva
] (oh OK) is that a ‘lake’
how about the ‘ocean’?)
<-shire> (0:28:55 my um uncle he comes from Derbyshire [
dɑːbɪʃɪa
] but he lives in Sheffield now
and he says we sound like farmers; 0:30:04 (they drop their aitches) yeah (as well a lot and it’s
like) that Yorkshire accent [
jɔːkʃəɹ aksənʔ
] (yeah, it’s I don’t like it) it’s totally different to our
accent ’cause my auntie talks really weird it’s really posh comparing to ours)
comm
A
[
ə > a
]
(0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other people from other areas [
ɛːɹiəz
]
might think people from Bedworth have an accent but I don’t think we have not a broad accent, no;
0:14:28 a ‘freshy’ that’s someone that actually comes from India and [
ɪndia ən
] they come here; 0:15:55
(it’s like it’s like they’re shouting) I mean if we stayed in India [
ɪndiə
] for longer (we’d pick up) we would
pick up on it (yeah) it’s, like, when I went India [
ɪndiə
] in August I actually picked up on quite a lot of
things ((yeah) but we’ve still got an English accent no matter what)
hors
ES
[
ɪ
]
(0:18:31 OK fair enough they do assume that but at the end of the day there’s other people out there that
talk (I think there’s) different languages [
laŋgwɪʤɪz
]; 0:46:01 I don’t know maybe they were words ages
[
ɛɪʤɪz
] ago from civilisation (yeah, even, like, for ‘auntie’ and ‘uncle’); 1:00:26 you have it, Kieran, you
go through stages [
stɛɪʤɪz
] where you have, like, a word (I do, yeah) (so actually so do I my cousin does
that) like last year she went through a phase where she all she used was ‘doofus’, “oh my God, you’re
such a doofus”)
start
ED
[
ɪ
]
(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’);
1:05:43 (“he’s handsome”) that’s what old people say (it’s like, yeah) it’s like I hear old people, “oh my
grandson’s so handsome” and it’s like, “oh my God you can’t use that any more” because you’ve just
tainted [
tɛɪntɪd
] it)
morn
ING
[
ɪ
]
(0:06:42 when I was little I used to talk all cute and, you know, never used to say anything [
ɛnɪfɪn
] out of
touch or anything [
ɛnɪfɪŋ
]; 0:43:37 we’re on the phone to summat and it’s like, (“put the phone down”)
they just accuse you (yeah, yeah) or that you’re on the phone to a boy just so controlling [
kəntɹɔʊlɪŋ
]
(yeah) and it’s just society now and it shouldn’t be like that; 1:05:59 I just say, “oh he looks really nice he
looks well nice” (I just say, “he’s really good-looking” [
gɵdlɵkɪn
] ) yeah, but there ain’t many good-
looking [
gʊdlʊkɪŋ
] ones)
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PLOSIVES
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T
frequent word final
T
-glottaling (e.g. 0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then I moved to Burton on
Trent [
bəːʔn̟ ɒn tɹɛnʔ
] 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; 0:01:28 Standard English I don’t [
dəʊnʔ
] really
know if I’ve got [
gɒʔ
] an accent [
aksənʔ
] other people from other areas might [
mɔɪʔ
] think people from
Bedworth have an accent but I don’t [
dəʊnʔ
] think we have not [
nɒʔ
] a broad accent, [
aksənʔ
] no; 0:06:42
when I was little [
lɪʔʊ
] I used to talk all cute [
kjuːʔ
] and, you know, never used to say anything out [
aʊʔ
] of
touch or anything; 0:08:31 you only start [
stɑːʔ
] off writing it [
ɪʔ
] because it’s easier to write [
ɹɔɪʔ
] but
you start talking like it [
ɪʔ
] as well (you start [
stɑːʔ
] getting into that [
ðaʔ
] cycle) yeah (where you’re not
[
nɒʔ
] talking normal any more) yeah (well what’s seen as normal); 0:22:59 my sister didn’t [
dɪnʔ
] ta… use
to talk Punjabi at [
əʔ
] all and it [
ɪʔ
] used to be quite [
kwɔɪʔ
] funny actually and now she’s just been to
India and she’s listening obviously to Indian music and she actually talks it [
ɪʔ
] (yeah) ’cause she sings it
and if you sing it [
ɪʔ
] (yeah, you pick it [
ɪʔ
] up) I think it, [
ɪʔ
] yeah, you pick it [
ɪʔ
] up more when you sing
it [
ɪʔ
] (yeah) it [
ɪʔ
] depends what [
wɒʔ
] kind of learner you are really)
frequent word medial and syllable initial
T
-glottaling (e.g. 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 and that’s where I’ve lived ever since; 0:00:47 um I was born in Coventry in
Walsgrave Hospital [
wɔːɫzgɹɛɪv hɒspɪʔɫ̩
] and I’ve always lived in the same place and I’ve never really
moved away 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; 0:04:39 well there’s, like, words you know, like, different words for, like,
she’s my ‘girlfriend’ (she’s my ‘shorty’) [
ʃɔːʔi
]; 0:05:32 but if you hear someone shouting [
ʃaʊʔɪn
] at you
across a street then you’re obviously you’re going to be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:08:31 (you
only start off writing it because it’s easier to write but you start talking like it as well) you start getting
[
gɛʔɪn
] 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 [
lɛʔəz
] and stuff and, […] like, ‘can’t be arsed’ or (yeah) ‘mother’ ‘mum’; 0:33:29 it’s, like, words
like ‘slag’ and ‘ho’ and stuff I mean I get called that (and me) and it’s, like, (I don’t know why) and it’s,
like, I haven’t ev…, like, if ever, you know what I mean, (yeah, yeah) I don’t have a boyfriend and they’re
like, “you’re a slag” or whatever [
wɒʔɛvɐ
] (exactly ’cause you wear a skirt or something) yeah, and it’s so
pathetic [
pəθɛʔɪk
] (I know); 0:50:44 but it depends what trousers you’re on about (I’d say ‘jeans’) there’s
‘jeans’ there’s ‘bottoms’ [
bɒʔʊmz
] I’d say ‘bottoms’ [
bɒʔʊmz
]; 0:51:58 ‘knackered’ (‘knackered’, yeah,
people are ‘knackered’) ‘shattered’ [
ʃaʔəd
] (‘exhausted’) ‘tired’ I use (‘shattered’, yeah, I use all them
words) (there’s loads of words, yeah) ‘can’t be bothered’)
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