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Bedworth, Warwickshire Shelfmark:
C1190/01/02 Recording date:
09.03.2005 Speakers: Anita, b. 1988; female; sixth-form student (father b. India, bus driver; mother b. Derby, driving instructor) Shergill, Kieran, b. 1987; female; sixth-form student (father b. India, works at Dunlop; mother b. India, machinist) Nykita, b. 1988; female; sixth-form student (mother b. Coventry)
The interviewees are sixth-form students at Nicholas Chamberlaine School in Bedworth. ELICITED LEXIS ○ see English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) ∆ 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 pleased happy (“I’m well happy”); pleased; OK; glad tired sleepy; knackered; shattered; exhausted; tired; “can’t be bothered” ⌂
unwell poorly; ill; under the weather (heard used); unwell (not used) hot boiling; roasting; well hot (also used to mean ‘attractive’) cold freezing; chilly (used occasionally, “chilling” also means ‘relaxing’) annoyed pissed off (“don’t piss me off”); peed off; pissed (“are you pissed at me?”); mad; crazy; rago ♦ , “you’re on cocaine/crack” ∆1 , next level ♦
throw chuck (“chuck me that”); throw play truant wagging (“oh you’re a right wagger, you are”) skive; skiving; truanting sleep sleep; nod off; nap; a wink (disputed, “I’m having twenty-one winks or something”, heard used); “I’m gonna go sleep”; “I’m going to bed”; crash, doze (of short sleep) play a game play hit hard whack (“I’m gonna whack you”); punch it; smack it; batter it
1 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) records ‘on crack’ in sense of ‘out of your mind’ but not in this sense. BBC Voices Recordings
mum; mom; mummy (used in past, used now when wanting something); ma gmother gran; nani, bibi 2 (Punjabi for paternal grandmother) m partner boyfriend; my man (heard, not used); my boo (learnt from Usher 3 song, not used) friend (not discussed) gfather nana, baba 2 (Punjabi for paternal grandfather) forgot name whatsit; thingamajiggy ♦
name what’s-his-name”); thingy; him over there ⌂ ; thingamajig kit of tools tool-box trendy chav; wannabe; tramp f partner shorty ◊
bitch, my girl, my gal, a bit on the side ∆ (used by males) baby child; baby (“cute”); babe; babby ○
“common”) also supplied kaka 2 (“Indian”, also means ‘dolly’) rain heavily chuck it down; chucking it; shitting it down ⌂ ; chuck it; chucking it down toilet toilet; bathroom; ladies; bog (“I’m going to the bog”); “going toilet”, “need a wee”, “I need a number one or a number two” ∆
(heard used by older speakers, polite), powder room, “I need to go to the restroom” (used in America), the ladies (of going to toilet in restaurant); “I’m gonna go and lighten/brighten myself up” (used euphemistically to mean ‘go and check make-up’) walkway alley; alley-way long seat settee; sofa run water stream; ?lake main room living room; main room rain lightly spit (“it’s spitting”); raining; drizzle rich loaded; rich (“well rich”) left-handed left-handed; spaz ⌂4
unattractive ugly; minging (used frequently in recent past); ew (“snobby”, used frequently on internet); minger; rank (disliked) lack money skint (used frequently of short-term lack of money, disliked); tramp ⌂ , trampy ⌂ (of long- term lack of money); “haven’t got no money”; “ I ain’t got no money”; “I haven’t got any money” drunk alky; pissed (used frequently); mashed (also means “high on drugs”); mashed up; piss-head pregnant pregnant; having a baby; up the duff (heard frequently locally, disliked, “disgusting”) attractive beautiful; pretty; fit (“oh he’s well fit” used by females of males, not initially understood by mother); phat; boom ∆ ; heavy ◊ (used by males); handsome (used by older speakers); good- looking, “he looks really nice/well nice” (of males) insane mad; crazy; hyper; loopy moody stroppy; on PMT ◊5
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3 American R&B singer (real name Usher Terry Raymond IV, b. 1978); ‘My Boo’ was a single in 2004. 4 OED (online edition) records ‘spaz’ as term of abuse but not in sense of ‘left-handed’. http://sounds.bl.uk Page 2 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings
SPONTANEOUS LEXIS
○ = term of endearment (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?”) bad= good, great (0:58:46 ‘bad’ is supposed to be ‘good’ (yeah) and, like, ‘phat’ doesn’t have any ‘phat’ and ‘phat’s’ got nothing (“that’s phat, that is”) to do with someone being ‘fat’ (summat like ‘heavy’)) be arsed = to be bothered, willing to make required effort (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’) Cov ♦
(they do though, don’t they) (well they say) (well the people I talk to they talk different to the way we talk) (yeah); 0:54:57 never see me dead in one of them now (I know) can you imagine walking down Cov in your (oh God) green Kappa 6
doofus = idiot, fool (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”) dorky = contemptible, socially awkward (1:00:14 “oh you’re a right geek” [...] I just mean it oh she does summat really stupid like ‘dorky’ or summat) duck 7 = term of endearment (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?”)) dude = form of address currently popular among young speakers (0:41:44 we’ve got, like, skaters and stuff in ours so they’re like, “oh dude”, you know, “hey dude”) freshy ♦
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’; 0:14:28 a ‘freshy’ that’s someone that actually comes from India and they come here) gaddar 2
of people I know say ‘gaddar’ but I don’t even say ‘sat sri akal’ I’m just like, “hey” or “hi” or whatever) gal = girl (0:30:42 but even words like ‘girl’ they’re like, “gal”) gangsta = of or relating to gangsta rap music and culture (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)) gay = foolish, lame, socially inappropriate (0:59:49 my brother says ‘gay’, like, on every other 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) geek = overly diligent/socially inept student (1:00:14 “oh you’re a right geek” [...] I just mean it oh she does summat really stupid like ‘dorky’ or summat) geezer = popular form of address locally (0:04:19 ‘innit’ is not used that much any more but it’s more, like (but it’s more, like, ‘safe’) ‘safe’ (and ‘geezer’) yeah) gross = repulsive, disgusting (1:12:09 that’s gross when you think about it it’s ‘spitting’) hello = expression signalling disbelief (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, 5 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) records ‘p.m.s’ [= abbreviation of ‘pre-menstrual syndrome’] in this sense. 6 Italian sportswear manufacturer found in 1916 in Turin. 7 This utterance is consciously ‘performed’ in imitation of speakers from Stoke-on-Trent. http://sounds.bl.uk Page 3 of 25 BBC Voices Recordings
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; 0:40:27 (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”)) hip = fashionable trendy (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 language as well I think) ho = sexually promiscuous woman (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)) hood = neighbourhood, area (1:21:14 they speak (yeah) from the hood and stuff like that (exactly) and street and stuff (oh God I hate that word from the ‘hood’); 1:21:28 my friend’s MSN 8
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) interpretate 9
how it’s interpretated by us) kill ∆
‘killed’ it” I’m like, “no, I didn’t ‘kill’ it”) lock-down ∆
say it to me, yeah, “I’ve got you on lock-down” (oh right, yeah) it’s like, “I’ve got control over you you can’t do this you can’t do that”) LOL = expression used to draw attention to humorous statement or to express amusement (0:09:32 (yeah, you’d say, “laugh out loud”) but some people just use the term ‘LOL’ and they don’t even laugh out loud) mans ♦ = friends (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)) oh my days ♦
it’s because he’s been listening to certain music or talking to certain friends and he’ll come back and say words like) words like (I’m like, “what?”) instead of ‘oh my God’ ‘oh my days’ I say that now, (I say, “oh my life”) “oh my days”) oh my life ♦
it’s because he’s been listening to certain music or talking to certain friends and he’ll come back and say words like) (words like) (I’m like, “what?”) (instead of ‘oh my God’ ‘oh my days’ I say that now) I say, “oh my life” (“oh my days”)) phat = great, excellent (0:58:46 ‘bad’ is supposed to be ‘good’ (yeah) and, like, ‘phat’ doesn’t have any ‘phat’ and ‘phat’s’ got nothing (“that’s phat, that is”) to do with someone being ‘fat’ (summat like ‘heavy’)) proper = really, completely (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) pow pow ♦
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BBC Voices Recordings rago ♦
like, “rago” and he even changed my MSN 8
wicked’ so it’s quite weird actually the way people talk (that’s weird, yeah)) random = peculiar, unexpected (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) represent ♦
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like, ‘safe’) ‘safe’ (and ‘geezer’) yeah) sat sri akal 2
say ‘sat sri akal’ I’m just like, “hey” or “hi” or whatever) slag = sexually promiscuous woman (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”) summat = something (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; 0:40:27 sometimes it’s really embarrassing 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”; 0:40:50 ‘pow pow’ means summat like ‘wicked wicked’; 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 stuff, yeah) stuff like that that’s, like, proper towny people (yeah, “what?”); 1:00:14 “oh you’re a right geek” [...] I just mean it oh she does summat really stupid like ‘dorky’ or summat; 1:10:45 sometimes people say, “I’m gonna go and lighten myself up” or summat, “I’m” as in, “I’m gonna put go and put make-up on” I think they do anyway […] ‘brighten’ or ‘lighten’ one or the other; 1:10:56 they do actually (so they do, yeah) some people do say that ‘cause they wanna go and put make-up on or summat ’cause they’re embarrassed to say, “I wanna go to the toilet” (yeah); 1:21:41 if you do summat really good it’s like, “you ‘killed’ it” I’m like, “no, I didn’t ‘kill’ it”) take the mickey = to make fun of, poke fun at (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) ta = thank you (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?”)) TB ♦
use, like, really slang terms, (yeah) like, really weird like (’cause it’s easier to write, isn’t it?) when you say ‘text back’ you don’t write the whole thing (yeah) you just write ‘TB’ or something (yeah, yeah)) towny = derogatory term for town-dweller (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 stuff, yeah) stuff like that that’s, like, proper towny people (yeah, “what?”)) Yüklə 382 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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