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T -voicing (0:03:31 (any example of Bedworth slang?) ‘down town’ or is it ‘up town’, “get [ gɛd
] up town”; 0:36:46 London, yeah, she didn’t use to be like that and now she’s really snobby I’d say and posh and stuff whereas we’re just like, “yeah, whatever” [ wɒʔɛvə
] and she’s like, “don’t talk to me like that” and we’re like, “yeah, whatever [ wɒdɛvə
] we don’t care”; 0:47:34 but then there’s nothing wrong with cheap stuff if you can get [ gɛd
] it cheaper why not get [ gɛd
] it cheaper (no, but it’s the way they wear it) (yeah, but there’s a limit, innit, to how much gold you wear)) G palatalisation of G (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)
Page 13 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings NASALS NG frequent velar nasal plus (e.g. 0:01:48 yeah, they do ask but you can normally tell from the way someone speaks like if you go to Birmingham [ bəːmɪŋgʊm ] you know with the accent where they’re from but
haŋg
] around with (yeah); 0:22:59 my sister didn’t ta… use to talk Punjabi at all and it used to be quite funny actually 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 [ sɪŋgz
] it and if you sing [ sɪŋg
] it (yeah, you pick it up) I think it, yeah, you pick it up more when you sing [ sɪŋg
] it (yeah) it depends what kind of learner you are really; 0:26:34 but some people find it offensive ’cause all Asian people hang [ haŋg ] around together but then again that’s again (you get) because we’re coloured I mean we’ve had a lot of racial issues in school but (yeah) yeah; 0:28:20 they’re trying to make jokes out of it kind of thing [ θɪŋg ]; 1:14:42 someone’s ‘truanting’ [ tɹuːəntɪŋg ] like yesterday when they were getting done (who?) I
ʃaʊʔɪn
] at you across a street then you’re obviously you’re going to [ gənə
] be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:08:31 you only start off writing [ ɹɔɪtɪn
] it because it’s easier to write but you start talking [ tɔːkɪn
] like it as well (you start getting [ gɛʔɪn ] into that cycle) yeah (where you’re not talking [ tɔːkɪn
] normal any more) yeah (well what’s seen as normal); 0:28:20 they’re trying to [ tɹɔɪnə
] make jokes out of it kind of thing 0:40:27 sometimes it’s really embarrassing [ ɪmbaɹəsɪn ] as well because someone will say summat to you and their mates will
lafɪn
] 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”) frequent <-thing> with NK (e.g. 0:15:10 even when you go into the shops in India they’re, like, they understand it actually (yeah) English cause they’re, like, taught English there (yeah) but I went into this, like, shop where you get clothes from and he was, like, I was talking English to my sister saying “oh he’s this he’s that” and he was like, “I do know what you’re saying” and I was like, “oh my God” I didn’t actually think they’d understand it (yeah) but yeah, most of them do they can even read it and everything [ ɛvɹɪθɪŋk ] (yeah); 0:30:47 (speak or say saying something different) it’s just they make their own words up now and just say anything [ ɛnɪθɪŋk
] (yeah) and everything [ ɛvɹɪθɪŋk
] (yeah) what comes to their head (yeah); 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); 0:57:56 (it just) so it’s really weird the way they just make up phrases for anything [ ɛnɪfɪŋk
]) N syllabic N with nasal release (0:06:07 if you speak different to them you’re a snob all of a sudden [ sədn̟
]; 0:38:53 it is a lot different to the olden [ əʊɫdn̟ ] days used how they used to talk and how it’s interpretated 9 by us) syllabic N with epenthetic schwa (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; 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 [ bɹɔːdən
] makes extends our language as well I think; 1:10:45 sometimes people say, “I’m going to go and lighten [ lɔɪtən ] 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; 1:13:53 I probably wouldn’t http://sounds.bl.uk Page 14 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings [ wʊdənʔ ] I’d probably stay asleep; 1:21:41 if you do summat really good it’s like, “you ‘killed’ it” I’m like, “no, I didn’t [ dɪdənʔ
] ‘kill’ it”)
H hypercorrect H (0:30:04 they drop their aitches [ hɛɪʧɪz ] (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 ’cause my auntie talks really weird it’s really posh comparing to ours))
TH -stopping (1:22:25 he’s like, saying, “what are you saying ‘oh my God’ for?” he’s not religious or anything he just thinks, “why are you saying it, like, what’s God got to do with it?” if I’m something’s [ sʊmʔɪnz ] happened and I think, “yeah, that’s true”) frequent TH -fronting (e.g. 0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other [ əðə
] people from other [ əðə
] areas might think [ θɪŋk
] people from Bedworth [ bɛdwəf
] have an accent but I don’t think [ fɪŋk
] we have not a broad accent, no; 0:03:20 but I think [ fɪŋk
] in Bedworth [ bɛdwəf
] it’s all like, “oh, Bedworth” [ bɛdəf
] 10 and stuff like that they’re quite lazy with their speech; 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 ]; 0:07:43 they, like, add random people and it’s like, “oh my God, how do you know this [ vɪs
] person?” (yeah and they’re talking about this that and the other [ ʊva
] and cutting short words and stuff) yeah, and they’re talking all this, yeah, weird language; 0:34:08 one person I know he’s always like, “oh you’ve got loads of boyfriends you’re a slag you’re this [ vɪs
]”; 0:51:58 ‘knackered’ (‘knackered’, yeah, people are ‘knackered’) ‘shattered’ (‘exhausted’) ‘tired’ I use (‘shattered’, yeah, I use all them words) (there’s loads of words, yeah) ‘can’t be bothered’ [ bɒvəd
]; 0:59:49 my brother [ bɹʊvə
] says ‘gay’, like, on every other [ ʊvə
] word (I say it, “you’re gay” yeah, I say it as well) “that’s gay” and it’s, like (“that’s so gay” oh my God, “that’s so gay”) I say it a lot now; 1:22:25 he’s like, saying, “what are you saying ‘oh my God’ for?” he’s not religious or anything [ ɛnɪfɪn
] he just thinks, [ fɪŋks
] “why are you saying it, like, what’s God got to do with [ wɪv
] it?” if I’m something’s happened and I think, [ fɪŋk
] “yeah, that’s true”)
R approximant R (0:01:01 it’s all right [ ɔː ɹɔɪʔ
] ’cause we’re used to it but otherwise I’d rather [ ɹɑːðə
] move away from [ fɹəm
] here (yeah, not the best place where we live); 0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other people from [ fɹɒm
] other areas [ ɛːɹiəz
] might think people from [ fɹɒm ] Bedworth have an accent but I don’t think we have not a broad [ bɹɔːd
] accent, no; 0:07:10 I’ll tell him off because it’s not, like, proper English [ pɹɒpəɹ ɪŋglɪʃ ] or whatever and I don’t want him speaking
ʌɽduː
] (yeah, it’s totally different)) L clear onset L (0:00:47 um I was born in Coventry in Walsgrave Hospital and I’ve always lived [ lɪvd
] in the same place [ plɛɪs
] and I’ve never really [ ɹɪːli
] 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 [ lɪvd
] here all my life [ lɔɪf
]; 0:21:41 it’s quite good because they’ve used English [ ɪŋglɪʃ
] phrases and Indian phrases in it so it sends a http://sounds.bl.uk Page 15 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings message out not only [ əʊnli
] to the Indian people it sends a message out to the English [ ɪŋglɪʃ
] people as well) dark coda L (0:00:47 um I was born in Coventry in Walsgrave Hospital [ wɔːɫzgɹɛɪv hɒspɪʔɫ̩ ] and I’ve
ɔːɫwɛɪz
] lived in the same place and I’ve never really moved away that’s it; 0:02:16 yeah, there’s a lot ’cause my cousin lives in Wolverhampton [ wʊɫvəhamtəːn ] and they use a lot of different, like, um
kʊɫʧəɹ əz ] well there that they all [ ɔːɫ
] use different words; 0:55:23 I find it really I fi… ‘chilly’s’ one of them words (not rea…) that it can mean ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ [ kɔʊɫd
] (‘chilly’ I dunno) (“bit chilly in here”) (but it sounds like ‘chilling’, don’t it, when you’re relaxing)) L -vocalisation (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 [ piːpʊ
] 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; 0:32:05 if you said a swear-word when you were little [ lɪtʊ
] 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 part of our dialect (it depends how you say it I think); 0:45:53 (‘baba’ it’s, like, the first words you say as well) you kind of speak as well when you’re little [ lɪʔʊ
] (when you’re younger) (yeah) (when you’re little); 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 [ ʧɪʊdɹən
] and show them a good example [ ɪgzampʊ
]) syllabic L with lateral release (0:23:36 ‘if you spoke Punjabi in the middle [ mɪdɫ̟
] of the town centre or whatever everyone would turn around and probably look at you; 1:06:46 I think quite, like, middle-aged [ mɪdɫ̟ɛɪʤd ] people use that word as well (yeah, yeah) “you all right, mate?”) syllabic L with epenthetic schwa (0:45:53 ‘baba’ it’s, like, the first words you say as well (you kind of speak as well when you’re little) when you’re younger (yeah) when you’re little [ lɪtəɫ
]; 0:46:52 if it’s really cute and (yeah, nice) a little [ lɪkəɫ
] babe that’s my word ‘little’ [ lɪkəɫ
] ‘little’ [ lɪtəɫ
])
(0:56:37 (like when you’re angry or summat they’re like, “you’re talking next level”) yeah (or “you’re on cocaine or summat you crackhead”) yeah, stupid [ stjuːpɪd
] stuff, yeah (stuff like that that’s, like, proper towny people) yeah, “what?”) yod with word medial S (0:18:31 OK fair enough they do assume [ əsjuːm ] that but at the end of the day there’s other people out there that talk (I think there’s) different languages) yod dropping with T (1:14:42 someone’s ‘truanting’ like yesterday when they were getting done (who?) I don’t know a student [ stuːdənʔ
]) zero yod (0:22:50 but like you said before (street life) they’re influenced by the, like, um music [ muːzɪk
] as well, like (yeah) they really are influenced though, ain’t they? (definitely); 0:22:59 my sister didn’t ta… use to talk Punjabi at all and it used to be quite funny actually and now she’s just been to India and she’s listening obviously to Indian music [ muːzɪk
] 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) yod coalescence (0:07:43 they, like, add random people and it’s like, “oh my God, how do you [ ʤə ] 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; 0:26:34 but some people find it offensive ’cause all Asian people hang around together but then again that’s again (you get) because we’re coloured I mean we’ve had a lot of racial issues [ ɪʃuːz
] in school but (yeah) yeah; 0:27:46 yeah, it’s changed so http://sounds.bl.uk Page 16 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings
many people’s attitudes [ atɪʧuːdz
] towards us; 1:00:14 “oh you’re a right geek” [...] I just mean it oh she does summat really stupid [ ʃʧuːpɪd
] like ‘dorky’ or summat) ELISION prepositions of reduction (0:27:08 that is also ’cause of [ ə ] the music scene and stuff (the music, yeah) they’re making money out if it (yeah) like it’s a craze so like with Jay Sean 11
really country) even our Indian language, like, (countryside) I’m at work sometimes and I’ve got a lot of [ ə ] other Indian friends and it’s, like, they say to me that my Punjabi is good; 0:54:57 never see me dead in one of [ ə ] them now (I know) can you imagine walking down Cov in your (oh God) green Kappa 6 tracksuit; 1:14:06 ‘crashing’ for a couple of [ ə ] minutes (yeah)) to reduction (1:15:21 “I’m going to whack” you I’d say to someone [ sɛɪtsəmwɒn ] or (“I’m going to
wɪ ] Jay Sean 11 (yeah)) negation frequent secondary contraction (e.g. 0:15:10 even when you go into the shops in India they’re, like, they understand it actually (yeah) English cause they’re, like, taught English there (yeah) but I went into this, like, shop where you get clothes from and he was, like, I was talking English to my sister saying “oh he’s this he’s that” and he was like, “I do know what you’re saying” and I was like, “oh my God” I didn’t [ dɪnʔ ] actually think they’d understand it (yeah) but yeah, most of them do they can even read it and everything (yeah); 0:16:13 when they actually pick it out then you’re like, oh hang on” it is different bet otherwise you wouldn’t’ve [ wʊnʔəv
] known; 0:22:59 my sister 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 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; 0:36:46 London, yeah, she didn’t [ dɪnʔ ] use to be like that and now she’s really snobby I’d say and posh and stuff whereas we’re just like, “yeah, whatever” and she’s like, “don’t talk to me like that” and we’re like, “yeah, whatever we don’t care”; 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 (yeah) and it’s just society now and it shouldn’t [ ʃʊnʔ
] be like that; 1:14:31 some people say it, “oh you’re a right wagger, you are” and it’s, like, I wouldn’t [ wʊnʔ
] say it though but I do say it though)
word final consonant cluster reduction (0:02:32 I won’t [ wəʊn
] even understand what she’s going on about half the time; 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); 0:07:10 I’ll tell him off because it’s not, like, proper English or whatever and I don’t want [ wɒn
] him speaking like that; 0:09:32 (yeah, you’d say, “laugh out loud”) but some people just use the term ‘LOL’ and they don’t [ dəʊn
] even laugh out loud; 0:15:10 even when you go into the shops in India they’re, like, they understand it actually (yeah) English cause they’re, like, taught English there (yeah) but I went [ wɛn
] into this, like, shop where you get clothes from and he was, like, I was talking English to my sister saying “oh he’s this he’s that” and he was like, “I do know what you’re saying” and I was like, “oh my God” I didn’t actually think they’d understand it (yeah) but yeah, most of them do they can even read it and everything (yeah); 0:25:39 Pakistan is (next) kind of (yeah) on the
11 British singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer, real name Kamaljit Singh Jhooti (born 1981). http://sounds.bl.uk Page 17 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings border of India, isn’t [ ɪzən
] it, yeah; 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 [ wɒnə
] speak like that you don’t you can speak like that with your friends but you don’t speak like that in this house”; 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 [ dəʊn
] it, when you’re relaxing; 1:10:56 they do actually (so they do, yeah) some people do say that ‘cause they want to [ wɒnə
] go and put make-up on or summat ’cause they’re embarrassed to say, “I want to [ wɒnə
] 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 [ wɒnə
] speak well for my children and show them a good example) word medial consonant cluster reduction (1:08:16 it’s something [ sʊmɪŋk
] that’s used quite a lot round here though she’s ‘up the duff’; 1:19:13 yeah, but when she says it it just sounds wrong it’s like, “are you texting [ tɛkstɪŋ
] someone?” it’s like, “no, I’m texting [ tɛksɪŋ
] someone”) syllable deletion (0:21:13 we feel our ours is stronger than theirs obviously because they’ve got an English accent but that’s probably [ pɹɒbliː
] how the India people when we go (see us, yeah) they probably [ pɹɒbli ] see it as that as well (yeah)) frequent TH -deletion with them (e.g. 0:03:51 they say I don’t know but some of them [ əm ] some (they do) they say we speak a bit more formal as well than they do (I think it’s the more of the gangsta look the way they talk) (yeah, yeah, yeah yeah) in Coventry ’cause it’s more of a city; 0:06:07 if you speak different to them [ əm ] you’re a snob all of a sudden; 0:18:40 (do you ever use Punjabi to talk about people behind their backs?) (I don’t) if we don’t like them [ əm ] I’ll be honest sometimes; 0:47:42 it’s the way they wear it as well (yeah make-up and) like they wear things ten sizes too small for them [ əm ]; 1:06:15 ‘duck’, “you all right, duck?” ugh (‘bab’) ’cause I have my grandparents live in Stoke-on-Trent so when I go to visit them [ ʊm ] and it’s, like, they they used to have a shop and everyone that’s, “ta, duck” “you all right, duck?” (or “you all right, bab?”))
-deletion 10
bɛdwəf ] it’s all like, “oh, Bedworth” [ bɛdəf ] and stuff like that they’re quite lazy with their speech)
frequent linking R (e.g. 0:00:19 I was born in Coventry 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 [ wɛːɹ
av ] lived ever since; 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 to understand but I think it’s because of the, like, African Caribbean culture as [ kʊɫʧəɹ əz ] well there that they all use different words; 0:07:10 I’ll tell him
pɹɒpəɹ ɪŋglɪʃ ] or whatever and I don’t want him speaking like
fɛːɹ ɪnʊf ] they do assume that but at the end of the day there’s other people
jɔːkʃəɹ aksənʔ ] (yeah, it’s I don’t like it) it’s totally different to our
aːɹ aksənʔ ] ’cause my auntie talks really weird it’s really posh comparing to ours; 0:32:24 yeah,
fəɹ ɪʔ
] if my mum does notice she’ll tell us off for it [ fəɹ ɪʔ
] ’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”; 0:32:35 I think it’s just an age thing I think I will when I get to my parents I think I won’t swear either [ swɛːɹ iːðə ] because it’s just it just doesn’t sound right; 0:47:42 it’s the way they wear it [ wɛːɹ ɪʔ ] as well (yeah make-up and) like they wear things ten sizes too http://sounds.bl.uk Page 18 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings small for them [ fəɹ əm
]; 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 [ ðɛɹ
ɪmbaɹəst
] to say, “I want to go to the toilet” (yeah); 1:14:06 ‘crashing’ for a [ fəɹ ə
] couple of minutes (yeah); 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 (yeah, you’re having a shower)) zero linking R (0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other people from other areas [ əðə
ɛːɹiəz
] might think people from Bedworth have an accent but I don’t think we have not a broad accent, no; 0:30:47 (speak or say saying something different) it’s just they make their own [ ðɛ əʊn
] words up now and just say anything (yeah) and everything (yeah) what comes to their head (yeah); 0:46:01 (I don’t know maybe they were words ages ago from civilisation) yeah, even, like, for ‘auntie’ [ fə ɑːnti
] and ‘uncle’) zero intrusive R (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 for longer (we’d pick up) we would pick up on it (yeah) it’s, like, when I went India in [ ɪndiə ɪn
] August I actually picked up on quite a lot of things (yeah) but we’ve still got an English accent no matter what; 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 [ mɔː ɪŋglɪʃ ] people there and they go to, like, all boys and girls school and my cousins like, “if I spoke like that at school everyone would really, like, take” (the mickey) yeah)
TL with KL (0:46:52 if it’s really cute and (yeah, nice) a little [ lɪkəɫ ] ‘babe’ that’s my word ‘little’ [ lɪkəɫ ] ‘little’ [ lɪtəɫ
]) +/- VOICE Asian, Muslim (0:26:03 Southampton there ain’t many Asian [ ɛɪʒən
] peop… my cousins live in Southampton and they’re really, like, they’re really, like, really posh comparing to me; 0:26:34 but some people find it offensive ’cause all Asian [ ɛɪʒən
] people hang around together but then again that’s again (you get) because we’re coloured I mean we’ve had a lot of racial issues in school but (yeah) yeah; 0:25:29 (the Muslim [ mʊzlɪm ] language is totally different to our language) yeah Urdu (yeah, it’s totally different)) WEAK-STRONG CONTRAST vowel reduction weak definite article + vowel (0:01:48 yeah, they do ask but you can normally tell from the way someone speaks like if you go to Birmingham you know with the accent [ ðə aksənʔ ] where they’re from but people
ðə aksənts ] are just sometimes really funny; 0:21:41 it’s quite
ðə ɪndiən ] people it sends a message out to the English [ ðə ɪŋglɪʃ ] people as well; 0:38:53 it is
ðə əʊɫdn̟ ] days used how they used to talk and how it’s interpretated 9
1:11:56 look, it says ‘smaller than a river’ (oh OK) is that a ‘lake’ how about the ‘ocean’? [ ðə əʊʃən
])
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word final vowel strengthening (0:01:48 yeah, they do ask but you can normally tell from the way someone speaks like if you go to Birmingham [ bəːmɪŋgʊm ] you know with the accent where they’re from
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; 0:18:18 (people find it offensive) they have a problem [ pɹɒblʊm
] with it (yeah, but I don’t see why); 0:28:02 (bringing comedy in) (comedy into it) like, showing it’s not that we’re all religious fanatics and, you know) (and they’re taking the, yeah, and they’re taking the mick out of us as well) films like ‘Bend it like Beckham’ 12
[ bɛkʊm
]; 0:38:08 we’re studying Hamlet 13
hamlɪt ] and comparing to the language Shakespeare 14 used and the way we use it now it’s just totally different; 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
]; 1:05:43 “he’s handsome” [ hansʊm
] (that’s what old people say) it’s like, yeah (it’s like I hear old people, “oh my grandson’s so handsome” [ hansʊm
] and it’s like, “oh my God you can’t use that any more” because you’ve just tainted it; 1:20:02 kids nowadays are getting more freedom [ fɹiːdʊm
] and the way they talk and stuff) vowel strengthening – other ( (0:01:28 Standard English I don’t really know if I’ve got an accent other people from [ fɹɒm
] other areas might think people from [ fɹɒm
] Bedworth have an accent but I don’t think we have not a broad accent, no; 0:10:29 they still know that texting is the next best thing to, like, talking to somebody so it has catched on with them [ ðʊm
]; 0:13:04 I understand it but I find it a bit difficult to speak to them [ ðʊm
] in Punjabi; 0:18:31 OK fair enough they do assume that but at [ aʔ ] the end of the day there’s other people out there that talk (I think there’s) different languages ; 0:35:16 it’s like it’s OK for [ fɔː ] him to swear at me but when I do it to him he’s like, “oh he puts the phone down ; 1:06:15 ‘duck’, “you all right, duck?” ugh (‘bab’) ’cause I have my grandparents live in Stoke-on-Trent so when I go to visit them [ ʊm ] and it’s, like, they they used to have a shop and everyone that’s, “ta, duck” “you all right, duck?” (or “you all right, bab?”)) PROSODY intonation uptalk (0:11:12 ’cause mum and that are born in India so they talk different well my mum speaks English but she’s got an Indian accent to her English; 0:12:01 obviously it’s because we can talk Standard English and we were, like, born here) low falling terminal (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 to understand but I think it’s because of the, like, African Caribbean culture as well there that they all use different words) LEXICALLY SPECIFIC VARIATION
again [ əgɛn
] that’s again [ əgɛn
] (you get) because we’re coloured I mean we’ve had a lot of racial issues in school but (yeah) yeah; 1:16:41 (I think old people) just use (older 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 [ əgɛn ]’cause of the generations (to adapt))
12 British comedy film directed by Gurinder Chadha released in 2002. 13 Play, ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’, by William Shakespeare – see footnote 14 below. 14 English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare (c.1564-1602) – see footnote 13 above. http://sounds.bl.uk Page 20 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings because (0:00:19 I was born in Coventry and then I moved to Burton on Trent because [ bɪkəz
] 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; 0:14:50 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 weird because [ bɪkəz
] I try talking, like, you try talking like them and you, like, just proper pick it up) (n)either (0:19:46 I don’t know how to explain it I just feel like I’m neither [ nɛɪðə
] here nor there; 0:32:35 I think it’s just an age thing I think I will when I get to my parents I think I won’t swear either [ iːðə
] because it’s just it just doesn’t sound right; 1:02:36 (I’ve really) (I’ve just got so used to saying it now) actually I don’t usually say ‘skint’ either [ iːvə
] I just say, “I ain’t got no money” (I don’t like it at all)) says (0:28:55 my um uncle he comes from Derbyshire but he lives in Sheffield now and he says [ sɛz
] we sound like farmers; 0:33:44 the people that actually, like, do have loads of boyfriends and do everything this that and that they don’t no one really says [ sɛz
] anything to them; 1:11:56 look, it says [ sɛz
] ‘smaller than a river’ (oh OK) is that a ‘lake’ how about the ‘ocean’?) GRAMMAR DETERMINERS demonstrative them (0:51:24 I remember them days when you used to wear little ‘pumps’ (yeah) (that was so funny that was) now it would just be, like, ‘trainers’ or (yeah); 0:51:58 (‘knackered’) ‘knackered’, yeah, people are ‘knackered’ (‘shattered’) (‘exhausted’) (‘tired’ I use) ‘shattered’, yeah, I use all them words (there’s loads of words, yeah) (‘can’t be bothered’); 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 dunno) (“bit chilly in here”) (but it sounds like ‘chilling’, don’t it, when you’re relaxing)) NOUNS irregular plural (0:35:24 he goes to me he said summat like, “yeah, you’re gonna 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 gonna get I’m gonna 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; 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
which means ‘the man is wicked’ so it’s quite weird actually the way people talk (that’s weird, yeah)) PRONOUNS singular object us (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”)
0:33:44 the people that actually, like, do have loads of boyfriends and do everything this that and that they
BBC Voices Recordings regularised past (0:10:29 they still know that texting is the next best thing to, like, talking to somebody so it has catched on with them) be – was generalisation (1:03:18 ‘mashed’ summat like (oh my God) I thought that was like if you was high on drugs or something) compounds zero auxiliary be (0:40:27 (sometimes it’s really embarrassing as well because someone will say summat to you and their mates will understand it but you won’t 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”); 1:06:46 I think quite, like, middle-aged people use that word as well (yeah, yeah) “_ you all right, mate?”)
‘girlfriend’ (she’s my ‘shorty’); 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; 0:23:53 there’s certain phrases that everyone understands out of every kind of language because that it’s used so much and, yeah; 0:51:58 (‘knackered’) (‘knackered’, yeah, people are ‘knackered’) (‘shattered’) ‘exhausted’ (‘tired’ I use) (‘shattered’, yeah, I use all them words) there’s loads of words, yeah (‘can’t be bothered’)) bare infinitive (1:13:31 even if I’m not gonna go _ sleep I just say, “I’m going to bed” (yeah)) NEGATION multiple negation (0:40:27 sometimes it’s really embarrassing as well because someone will say summat to you and their mates will understand it but you won’t 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”; 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 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 got no money”) yeah, “I ain’t got no money”) ain’t for negative be (0:20:23 I mean my parents ain’t very reli… religious but they do like us talking in Punjabi; 0:25:03 everyone’s allowed their choice why ain’t we allowed our choice; 0:26:03 Southampton there ain’t 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 that when you’re ‘mad’?; 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) ain’t for negative have (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 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 got no money”) yeah, “I ain’t got no money”) invariant don’t (0:36:27 (I think they would think with a speak with a much more Standard English dialect) but even my sister don’t like the way I talk ’cause she’s, like, “oh God”; 0:40:27 sometimes it’s really embarrassing as well because someone will say summat to you and their mates will understand it but you won’t 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”; 0:44:56 ’cause my grandma’s Punjabi and she only she don’t understand English so I don’t I just call her Pun… in a Punjabi way I call her ‘nani’; 0:55:23 (I find it really I fi… ‘chilly’s’ one of them words) not rea… (that it can mean ‘hot’ http://sounds.bl.uk Page 22 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings and ‘cold’) ‘chilly’ I dunno (“bit chilly in here”) but it sounds like ‘chilling’, don’t it, when you’re relaxing) PREPOSITIONS deletion zero habitual to (0:14:20 even when you go _ India and you talk in Punjabi (it’s different) I mean I’m comparing to a lot of people here I can talk a lot of Punjabi which is why they call me a ‘freshy’; 0:15:55 (it’s like it’s like they’re shouting) I mean if we stayed in India for longer (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 quite a lot of things (yeah) but we’ve still got an English accent no matter what; 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 school and my cousins like, “if I spoke like that at school everyone would really, like, take” (the mickey) yeah; 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) ADJECTIVES double comparative (0:15:36 it’s a bit more toned down I think (yeah) it’s a bit more soft whereas (it’s the same words but it’s not the same accent) it’s they’re just much more softer words I think) ADVERBS unmarked manner adverb (0:03:46 (I don’t really know anyone from Cov properly) they do though, don’t they, (well they say) well the people I talk to they talk different to the way we talk (yeah); 0:03:51 they say I don’t know but some of them some (they do) they say we speak a bit more formal as well than they do (I think it’s the more of the gangsta look the way they talk) (yeah, yeah, yeah yeah) in Coventry ’cause it’s more of a city; 0:06:07 if you speak different to them you’re a snob all of a sudden; 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 into that cycle (yeah) where you’re not talking normal any more (yeah) well what’s seen as normal; 0:11:12 ’cause mum and that are born in India so they talk different well my mum speaks English but she’s got an Indian accent to her English; 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 weird because I try talking, like, you try talking like them and you, like, just proper pick it up; 1:12:43 when it rains really really heavy I just say, “God, it’s shitting it down” like oh my God that’s really bad; 1:20:22 our kids we’re going to say they speak lazy (yeah) (yeah) and it’s not lazy it’s just changing (yeah) I think)
frequent utterance internal like (e.g. 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 to understand but I think it’s because of the, like, African Caribbean culture as well there that they all use different words; 0:07:10 I’ll tell him off because it’s not, like, proper English or whatever and I don’t want him speaking like that; 0:07:43 they, like, add random 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; 0:12:01 obviously it’s because we can talk Standard English and we were, like, born here; 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 weird because I try talking, like, you try talking like them and you, like, just proper pick it up; 0:15:10 even when you go into the shops in India they’re, like, they understand it actually (yeah) English cause they’re, like, taught English there (yeah) but I went into this, http://sounds.bl.uk Page 23 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings like, shop where you get clothes from and he was, like, I was talking English to my sister saying “oh he’s this he’s that” and he was like, “I do know what you’re saying” and I was like, “oh my God” I didn’t actually think they’d understand it (yeah) but yeah, most of them do they can even read it and everything (yeah); 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 they? (definitely); 0:26:03 Southampton there ain’t many Asian peop… my cousins live in Southampton and they’re really, like, they’re really, like, really posh comparing to me; 0:29:07 (I don’t know why we sound really country) even our Indian language, like, (countryside) I’m at work sometimes and I’ve got a lot of other Indian friends and it’s, like, they say to me that my Punjabi is good; 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 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 (exactly ’cause you wear a skirt or something) yeah, and it’s so pathetic (I know); 0:41:44 we’ve got, like, skaters and stuff in ours so they’re like, “oh dude”, you know, “hey dude”; 0:46:01 (I don’t know maybe they were words ages ago from civilisation) yeah, even, like, for ‘auntie’ and ‘uncle’; 1:00:26 you have it, Kieran, you go through stages 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”; 1:06:15 ‘duck’, “you all right, duck?” ugh (‘bab’) ’cause I have my grandparents live in Stoke-on-Trent so when I go to visit them and it’s, like, they they used to have a shop and everyone that’s, “ta, duck” “you all right, duck?” (or “you all right, bab?”))
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) frequent quotative like (e.g. 0:03:20 but I think in Bedworth it’s all like, “oh, Bedworth” and stuff like that they’re quite lazy with their speech; 0:05:32 but if you hear someone shouting at you across a street then you’re obviously you’re gonna be like, (get really offended) “get lost”; 0:07:21 and you’re like, “what?”; 0:07:43 they, like, add random 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; 0:15:10 even when you go into the shops in India they’re, like, they understand it actually (yeah) English cause they’re, like, taught English there (yeah) but I went into this, like, shop where you get clothes from and he was, like, I was talking English to my sister saying “oh he’s this he’s that” and he was like, “I do know what you’re saying” and I was like, “oh my God” I didn’t actually think they’d understand it (yeah) but yeah, most of them do they can even read it and everything (yeah); 0:22:15 a lot of people I know say ‘gaddar’ but I don’t even say ‘sat sri akal’ I’m just like, “hey” or “hi” or whatever; 0:30:42 but even words like ‘girl’ they’re like, “gal”; 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 (exactly ’cause you wear a skirt or something) yeah, and it’s so pathetic (I know); 0:34:08 one person I know he’s always like, “oh you’ve got loads of boyfriends you’re a slag you’re this”; 0:35:24 he goes to me he said summat like, “yeah, you’re gonna 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 gonna get I’m gonna 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; 0:36:46 London, yeah, she didn’t use to be like that http://sounds.bl.uk Page 24 of 25 http://sounds.bl.uk Page 25 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings and now she’s really snobby I’d say and posh and stuff whereas we’re just like, “yeah, whatever” and she’s like, “don’t talk to me like that” and we’re like, “yeah, whatever we don’t care”; 0:40:27 (sometimes it’s really embarrassing as well because someone will say summat to you and their mates will understand it but you won’t 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”); 0:41:44 we’ve got, like, skaters and stuff in ours so they’re like, “oh dude”, you know, “hey dude” ; 1:09:32 it’s weird ’cause I say it at school sometimes, “I’m going to the bathroom” and they’re like, “it’s not a ‘bathroom’” (it’s actually a ‘toilet’) “it’s a ‘toilet’”; 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; 1:19:13 yeah, but when she says it it just sounds wrong it’s like, “are you texting someone?” it’s like, “no, I’m texting someone”) quotative go (0:35:24 he goes to me he said summat like, “yeah, you’re gonna 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 gonna get I’m gonna 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)
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) form of address bab (1:06:15 (‘duck’, “you all right, duck?” ugh) ‘bab’ (’cause I have my grandparents live in Stoke-on-Trent so when I go to visit them and it’s, like, they they used to have a shop and everyone that’s, “ta, duck” “you all right, duck?”) or “you all right, bab?”)
7 (1:06:15 ‘duck’, “you all right, duck?” ugh (‘bab’) ’cause I have my grandparents live in Stoke-on-Trent so when I go to visit them and it’s, like, they they used to have a shop and everyone that’s, “ta, duck” “you all right, duck?” (or “you all right, bab?”))
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