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Title:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Shelfmark:

C1190/28/01

Recording date:

12.04.2005

Speakers:

Cole, Sarah Jane, female

Fellows, Roy, male; curator & art expert (father b. Barnsley)

Sinclair, David, male

The interviewees are all local artists.

ELICITED LEXIS

pleased happy; pleased

tired knackered; tired

unwell sick (to e.g. boss); poorly (suggested by interviewer, used by/to mother); unwell (to

mother); knackered (of illness caused by exhaustion)

hot boiling; sweaty; hot

cold freezing; clammy; cold

annoyed pissed off; angry; fucked off

throw lob; chuck (liked)

play truant wag it; wagging it; twag it

sleep kip; boun○ to bed; sleep

play a game play; laking (“are you laking/are you coming out to lake?” used as child, Barnsley term)

hit hard smack; whack (suggested by interviewer, not used); hit hard; punched; belt (“I’ll belt

you/he gie○ me a right belt” used by father)

clothes clothes

trousers pants; trousers

child’s shoe pumps; plimsolls (suggested by interviewer, considered “southern/posh”, not used locally)

mother mother; mam; mum

○ see English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905)

∆ see New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006)

◊ see Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010)

« see Roger’s Profanisaurus: The Magna Farta (2007)

⌂ no previous source (with this sense) identified


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gmother grandma; nannan1 (to grandmother, still used in e.g. birthday card, “Nannan

Swaithe/Nannan Whatever” used to distinguish between maternal/paternal grandmother);

nan; gran; grandmother; granny (suggested by interviewer, not used, considered

“southern/old”)

m partner boyfriend

friend mate; friend

gfather grandad

forgot name thingy; thingymebob◊; what’s-her-name; what’s-their-name

◊

kit of tools kit of tools; tool-kit

trendy slut; slapper; hooker

f partner girlfriend; Lynn (i.e. by name)

baby baby; bairn (avoided)

rain heavily piss it down; banging it down⌂; bucket; bucket down

toilet shitter; bog; toilet; loo

walkway ginnel (used as child, of “cut-through”); alley (used now in preference to “ginnel”, of “cut-

through”); alleyway; snicket (of “covered walkway”)

long seat settee (used as child in preference to “sofa”); sofa (used now in preference to “settee”);

chaise (suggested jokingly)

run water stream

main room front room; lounge; salon (suggested jokingly)

rain lightly drizzle; spitting

rich rich; wealthy

left-handed left-handed; cacky-hand◊ (used at school in past)

unattractive hound∆; minger; beast; ugly bloke; she’s a looker, she’s worth one

«2 (used sarcastically of

female when “taking the piss”); unattractive

lack money skint

drunk pissed

pregnant pupped up◊; pregnant; bun in the oven; up the duff (heard used of single mother); “ooh

she’s caught on”◊3

(common euphemism in past); brain in the belly⌂ (suggested by

interviewer, disliked)

attractive looker; gorgeous; attractive

insane mental; nutter

moody moody; mardy (suggested by interviewer, not used); maungy○ (means “more than just

moody”); grumpy

SPONTANEOUS LEXIS

awesome = great, excellent (0:42:55 if the it’s something I think, “wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or,

“excellent wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of people used to say I use ‘awesome’

a lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting)

chuffing = euphemism for ‘fucking’ (0:49:56 my mum never never even said ‘bloody’ ‘chuffing’ anything

like but my dad he just it was as if he was saying ‘hello’ “fucking this fucking that”)

1 ‘London marathon bid for Sheffield Nannan of Steel’ (http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/london-marathon-bid-for-sheffield-

nannan-of-steel-1-6555999) includes ‘nannan’ in this sense. 2 Roger’s Profanisaurus: The Magna Farta (2007) includes ‘worth a one’ in definition of ‘shaggable’. 3 Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2010) includes ‘caught’ in this sense.



cocker = common local form of address (0:40:37 I mean even though it were eight miles away from

Barnsley (yeah) where I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?” (no, be to ‘love’ that

I’ve heard, “tara, love” yeah) (no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that) no, it’s the we we al… we

always had um, “see you later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?” (oh right, no, we never got that we

never had that even as kids it were always ‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield ways it

were always ‘duck’ so but no never had that))

C--word = euphemism for word ‘cunt’ (0:44:17 I love the C-word and I use it a lot if I’m with me friends)

duck = common local form of address (0:40:37 (I mean even though it were eight miles away from

Barnsley) yeah (where I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?”) (no, be to ‘love’

that I’ve heard, “tara, love” yeah) no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that (no, it’s the we we al… we

always had um, “see you later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?”) oh right, no, we never got that we


were always ‘duck’ so but no never had that)

eff∆ = to use the word ‘fuck’ (0:46:17 never met the chap spoke to him a couple of times on the phone had

good rapport with him but never met him and we were just tak… and then he just suddenly effed it into the

conversation and then and it just completely changed my perception of my relationship with this bloke)

frigging = euphemism for the word ‘fucking’ (0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture

Park for instance and they want some comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging hell do

you go and talk to somebody with a flat cap and a whippet)

F-word = euphemism for word ‘fuck’ (0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say the F-word at least

once but I purposefully do it I purposely say it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then once

I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or

not)

gie○ = to give (0:07:39 (yeah, me dad used to use ‘belt’) yeah (yeah, “I’ll belt you”) yeah, he used to, like,

“gie me a right belt”)

gosh = exclamation expressing surprise or disbelief (0:50:25 (and would he have accepted you s…?) oh

gosh, no, definitely not, no)

love = common local form of address (0:40:37 (I mean even though it were eight miles away from

Barnsley) (yeah) (where I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?”) no, be to ‘love’

that I’ve heard, “tara, love” yeah (no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that) (no, it’s the we we al… we

always had um, “see you later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?”) )oh right, no, we never got that we


were always ‘duck’ so but no never had that))

maungy○ = moody, miserable, sulky (0:03:28 the word ‘maungy’, you know like, ‘miserable’, you know

like, it’s kind of people in London doesn’t know what don’t know don’t know what ‘maungy’ is; 0:04:22 it

is a very much a British a a Yorkshire word, (yeah) is maungy, I’ve never come across it anywhere else

but it is difficult to get across what you mean by that person wor… by that word)

mockney = form of speech perceived to be affected in imitation of London speakers (0:39:52 people just

don’t talk like that any more it’s like it’s mock… it’s mockney, you know, as they call as they nickname it)

real = very, really (0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like,

Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where aitches shouldn’t be because

you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:34:56 when you listen to somebody with a real strong accent)

right = real, proper (0:07:39 (yeah, me dad used to use ‘belt’) yeah (yeah, “I’ll belt you”) yeah, he used

to, like, “gie me a right belt”)

right = very, really (0:33:05 sometimes sometimes I’d be saying “oh, I’ve had a right bad night” you

know and I go, “oh my God I mean a bad night” […] do you know what I mean it’s it’s easier to say

‘night’ (yeah) than it is to say ‘night’ (yeah) you use less muscles with ‘night’)

4 Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida Juantegui (1924-2002).



spadger = sparrow (0:40:59 even ‘spadge’ (you what what’s ‘spadge’?) ‘spadge’ I don’t know ‘sparrow’

it’s short for ‘sparrow’ (yeah, it is, yeah) “are you all right, sparrow?” sparr… “are you all right s…?”

you know “spadge?”)

Spanish○ = liquorice (0:41:08 well we’d say ‘Spanish’ (‘Spanish’?) which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say,

“have you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say

‘Spanish’ (yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’) […] (yeah, when we was at t’ shop for

liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?))

sparrow = term of endearment (0:40:59 even ‘spadge’ (you what what’s ‘spadge’?) ‘spadge’ I don’t know

‘sparrow’ it’s short for ‘sparrow’ (yeah, it is, yeah) “are you all right, sparrow?” sparr… “are you all

right s…?” you know “spadge?”)

spice = sweets, confectionery (0:41:34 I thi… I think it’s demise of buying uh boiled sweets by the quarter

I mean uh we always used to call them ‘spice’ (yeah) (yeah) “I’m go… I’m going for a quarter of spice”

(yeah, yeah); 0:41:49 but would you say you were going to t’ ‘sweet shop’ or going to t’ ‘spice shop’?

(going to t’ spice shop “off to t’ spice sho… off to t’ spice shop” […]) see we always used to say going to

t’ sweet shop but we always used to ask go ask for spice)

stand out like a sore thumb5 = to be conspicuous (0:38:36 at one time you could go to Sheffield and you

stood out like a bloody sore thumb with a Barnsley accent but now it’s all very much has merge… it’s all

very much merged)

swear like a trooper = to swear profusely (0:47:59 my father s…, you know, swore like a trooper when he

was outside)

take the piss = to mock, poke fun at (0:11:06 (what “she’s worth one” ‘unattractive’?) yeah, yeah (in that

taking the piss) meaning taking the piss basically)

tara = goodbye (0:40:37 (I mean even though it were eight miles away from Barnsley) yeah (where I were

born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?”) (no, be to ‘love’ that I’ve heard, “tara, love”

yeah) no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that (no, it’s the we we al… we always had um, “see you

later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?”) oh right, no, we never got that we never had that even as kids

it were always ‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield ways it were always ‘duck’ so but no

never had that)

thick = stupid, unintelligent (0:32:18 and I’m never quite sure what an accent is and what a dialect is but

I always think people who use a lot of dialect words generally do sound very stupid and very thick;

0:33:37 if I said to someone I were working with, you know like, professionally, “I’m off to t’ shop” you

sound a bit thick; 0:35:12 you know if somebody speaks really northern Barnsley dialects then I just think,

“oh thick shit” basically but you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think like that; 0:36:36 the media

people will always go out and pick the thickest-looking twat on the street, you know, to interview)

touch wood = expression used to avert potential future misfortune (0:34:35 well hopefully I was gonna say

‘touch wood’ but we’ve only got glass and I thought, “that’ll have to do”)

twat = fool, idiot (0:36:36 the media people will always go out and pick the thickest-looking twat on the

street, you know, to interview)

wash someone’s mouth out with soap∆ = expression commonly directed at someone swearing (0:50:06 I

mean we only saw him once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean

f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

wicked = great, excellent (0:42:55 if the it’s something I think, “wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or, “excellent

wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of people used to say I use ‘awesome’ a lot and

‘excellent’ if I’m texting)

PHONOLOGY

5 OED (online edition) includes ‘stick out like a sore thumb’ in this sense.



KIT [ɪ]

(0:12:05 but I know, like, a lot of the old villages [vɪlɪʤəz] where I grew up they always, “oh, she’s

caught on”; 0:35:12 you know if somebody speaks really northern Barnsley dialects then I just think,

[θɪŋk] “oh thick [θɪk] shit” [ʃɪʔ] basically [bɛɪsɪklɪ] but you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think

[θɪŋk] like that; 0:36:26 you hear somebody on TV and they always seem to pick on [pɪk ɒn] (they always

seem to pick [pɪk] the thickest [θɪkɪst] person) the most northernest [nɔːðənɪst] person you could ever

imagine [ɪmaʤən]; 0:42:55 if the it’s something I think, [θɪŋk] “wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or, “excellent

wicked” [wɪkɪd] um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of people used to say I use ‘awesome’ a

lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting)

<em-, ex-> (0:24:25 yeah, ’cause if I were excited [ɛksaitəd] or, you know, happy and I were

speaking to my family then it would come out in a completely different way, yeah; 0:30:21 I find it

quite difficult to do it but I’m also incredibly embarrassed [ɪmbaɹəst] about my accent as well)

imagINE (0:36:26 you hear somebody on TV and they always seem to pick on (they always seem to

pick the thickest person) the most northernest person you could ever imagine [ɪmaʤən])

DRESS [ɛ]

(0:09:31 ‘moody’ could be ‘maungy’ depending [dɪpɛndɪn] but I wouldn’t associate the word ‘maungy’

with ‘moody’ because it’s more than just ‘moody’; 0:42:55 if the it’s something I think, “wow” I’ll say,

“awesome” or, “excellent [ɛksələnʔ] wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of people

used to say I use ‘awesome’ a lot and ‘excellent’ [ɛksələnt] if I’m texting [tɛksɪn]; 0:46:17 never [nɛvə]

met [mɛt] the chap spoke to him a couple of times on the phone had good rapport with him but never

[nɛvə] met [mɛt] him and we were just tak… and then [ðɛn] he just suddenly effed [ɛft] it into the

conversation and then [ðɛn] and it just completely changed my perception [pəsɛpʃən] of my relationship

with this bloke)

TRAP~BATH [a]

(0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’ ‘happy’ [hapɪ]

‘tired’ ‘knackered’ [nakəd] ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:04:01 somebody once asked [ast] me and I tried to ex… to

ex… uh to describe what it meant and it was really difficult; 0:19:05 it was really peculiar but it was very

marked the contrast [kɒntɹast] before how how we were talking when we left, say, Reading and how we

were talking when we arrived in South Yorkshire; 0:34:35 well hopefully I was going to say ‘touch wood’

but we’ve only got glass [glas] and I thought, “that’ll have to do”; 0:37:13 nobody’s talked like that [ðaʔ]

since turn of the century not even in Castleford [kas fəd]; 0:46:17 never met the chap [ʧap] spoke to him

a couple of times on the phone had good rapport [ɹapɔː] with him but never met him and we were just

tak… and then he just suddenly effed it into the conversation and then and it just completely changed my

perception of my relationship with this bloke)

LOT [ɒ]

(0:00:29 ‘hot’ [hɒt] would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’ ‘happy’ ‘tired’

‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for instance

and they want [wɒnt] some comment [kɒmɛnt] about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging hell do you

go and talk to somebody with a flat cap and a whippet; 0:41:49 but would you say you were going to the

‘sweet shop’ [swiːʔ ʃɒp] or going to the ‘spice shop’? [spais ʃɒp] (going to the spice shop [spais ʃɒp] “off

to the spice sho… [spais ʃɒ] off to the spice shop” [spais ʃɒp] […]) see we always used to say going to the

sweet shop [swiːʔ ʃɒp] but we always used to ask go ask for spice)

somebody (0:04:01 somebody [sʊmdɪ] once asked me and I tried to ex… to ex… uh to describe

what it meant and it was really difficult; 0:34:56 when you listen to somebody [sʊmbədɪ] with a

real strong accent; 0:35:12 you know if somebody [sʊmbdɪ] speaks really northern Barnsley



dialects then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to

think like that; 0:36:26 you hear somebody [sʊmdi] on TV and they always seem to pick on (they

always seem to pick the thickest person) the most northernest person you could ever imagine;

0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for instance and they want some

comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging hell do you go and talk to somebody

[sʊmbədɪ] with a flat cap and a whippet)

STRUT6 [ʊ > ə]

(0:02:31 when I’m at work because we have such [səʧ] a good working relationship generally here then

language is much [mʊʧ] looser and much [mʊʧ] freer; 0:05:32 (would you use ‘punched’? [pʊnʃt]) no

(never use the word?) no, not really, no, that’s quite aggressive, isn’t it, ‘punched’ [pənʃt]; 0:13:24

‘clothes’ would be ‘clothes’ ‘trousers’ would be ‘trousers’ and ‘PE’ uh ‘shoes’ would be ‘pumps’

[pəmps]; 0:14:14 but ‘pumps’ [pʊmps] to us [ʊz] are it’s, like, it’s uh the it’s the black thing with the

elasticated front [fɹʊnt] that’s a ‘pump’ [pʊmp]; 0:38:50 the rough [ɹəf] parts in Sheffield (oh I never go

to the rough [ɹʊf] parts) is uh the city centre, yeah, because there’s such [səʧ] a mixed multicultural

[mʊ tɪkʊ ʧəɹə ] (yeah) with the universities but I [bəɹ a] still think the outskirts the rough [ɹəf] areas of

Sheffield have still got that broad accent)

ONE (0:04:01 somebody once [wʊns] asked me and I tried to ex… to ex… uh to describe what it

meant and it was really difficult; 0:23:48 we’re working in both, you know, a foot in both camps if

you like that we can able we’re able to switch fairly easy and fairly unconsciously from one [wɒn]

to the other; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as well that I only had

one [wɒn] I only had one grandma [wɒŋ gɹamɑː] ’cause, like, my my dad’s mum died as, like, the

year I were born; 0:38:36 at one [wɒn] time you could go to Sheffield and you stood out like a

bloody sore thumb with a Barnsley accent but now it’s all very much has merge… it’s all very

much merged; 0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say the F-word at least once [wɒnts] but I

purposefully do it I purposely say it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then once

[wəns] I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear

any more or not; 0:49:31 I once [wʊns] heard my dad say, “fuck it” and I were absolutely

mortified absolutely mortified my mother still doesn’t swear in front of me whether she swears or

not; 0:50:06 I mean we only saw him once [wɒns] a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that

needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve

washed us mouth out with soap)

FOOT7 [ʊ > ɵ]

(0:10:42 it would [wɵd] be, “she’s a looker” [lɵkə] meaning she’s ‘ugly’ that’s the way that I would [wɵd]

put it [pɵɹ ɪʔ]; 0:23:48 we’re working in both, you know, a foot [fʊt] in both camps if you like that we can

able we’re able to switch fairly easy and fairly unconsciously from one to the other; 0:25:35 ‘young

person in cheap trendy clothes jewellery’ would [wɵd] be ‘hooker’ [hɵkə] (‘hooker’? [hʊkə]); 0:46:17

never met the chap spoke to him a couple of times on the phone had good [gʊd] rapport with him but

never met him and we were just tak… and then he just suddenly effed it into the conversation and then and

it just completely changed my perception of my relationship with this bloke; 0:49:12 there’s different

levels of swearing (yeah) in in my book [bʊk] in that way that you can say, like, oh, like, “oh fuck it” or,

“you stupid twat” or whatever but it’s kind of never in that aggressive way)

CLOTH [ɒ]

6 One speaker (Sarah) varies between [ə ~ ʊ]; the other two speakers consistently use [ʊ]. 7 One speaker (Sarah) varies between [ɵ ~ ʊ]; the other two speakers consistently use [ʊ].



(0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ [pɪst ɒf] ‘pleased’ ‘happy’

‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:04:22 it is a very much a British a a Yorkshire word, (yeah) is

maungy, I’ve never come across [əkɹɒs] it anywhere else but it is difficult to get across [əkɾɒs] what you

mean by that person wor… by that word; 0:44:33 I don’t use it offensively that often [ɒftən] but when I do

use it offensively I say it and I really mean it)

NURSE [əː]

(0:02:31 when I’m at work [wəːk] because we have such a good working [wəːkɪn] relationship generally

here then language is much looser and much freer; 0:07:17 say from Kendray Wombwell Cawthorne

(yeah, oh yeah, def..., yeah) (yeah, yeah) even just areas on the outskirts [aːʔskəːts] of Barnsley it

completely changes completely changes, yeah; 0:21:56 certainly what I found with education then that I

learnt [ləːnt] a whole new vocabulary and it wasn’t a vocabulary that actually had a regional significance

to it; 0:38:36 at one time you could go to Sheffield and you stood out like a bloody sore thumb with a

Barnsley accent but now it’s all very much has merge… [məːʤ] it’s all very much merged [məːʤd])

were (0:09:42 ‘left hand’ I think they used to say ‘cacky hand’ I’m not sure I’m sure we used to say

‘cacky hand’ (no, what do you say though) yeah, but that’s what we used to say at school but I

can’t remember I think it were [wɒ] ‘cacky hand’; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female

thing) as as a child as well that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, my my dad’s

mum died as, like, the year I were [wə] born; 0:33:37 if I said to someone I were [wə] working

with, you know like, professionally, “I’m off to the shop” you sound a bit thick; 0:41:08 well we’d

say ‘Spanish’ (‘Spanish’?) which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got any Spanish?” and

even Anita didn’t know what that were [wəː] […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’ (yeah,

that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at the shop for liquorice

we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?))

worth (0:10:51 yeah, for a woman it would be “she’s a looker” meaning or what was the other

thing we used to say uh, “she’s worth [wəθ] one”; 0:11:12 I know we’ve we’ve all often done it in

that way that you’ve seen someone really ugly and you’ve said, “she’s worth [wəːθ] one”)

FLEECE [iː > ɪiː]

(0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ [fɹiːzɪn] ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’ [pliːzd]

‘happy’ ‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:19:31 so you actually do start tailoring your speech [spɪiːʧ];

0:31:06 to a degree [dɪgɹɪiː] it’s not as bad as what it was years ago because there is, you know, s… a lot

of people [piːp ] that are going to university that still continue with their accent; 0:36:36 the media

[miːdiə] people [piːp ] will always go out and pick the thickest-looking twat on the street, [stɹɪiːt] you

know, to interview; 0:45:55 when I go to meetings [miːtɪŋz] I always say the F-word at least [əʔ liːst] once

but I purposefully do it I purposely say it to s… read [ɹiːd] the reaction of people [piːp ] round the and

then once I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any

more or not; 0:50:06 I mean [miːn] we only saw him once a week [wiːk] anyway so it was quite but we

ne… that needn’t [niːdn t] mean [miːn] to say I mean [miːn] f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum

my mum would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

FACE [ɛː > ɛɪ]

(0:07:17 say [sɛɪ] from Kendray Wombwell Cawthorne (yeah, oh yeah, def..., yeah) (yeah, yeah) even just

areas on the outskirts of Barnsley it completely changes [ʧɛɪnʤəz] completely changes, [ʧɛɪnʤəz] yeah;

0:11:46 ‘insane’ [ɪnsɛːn] ‘mental’ ‘moody’ ‘moody’ really; 0:18:32 I moved away [əwɛː] when I was

eighteen [ɛɪtiːn] to go to university so I’ve lived in Reading I’ve lived in London I’ve lived in Cambridge

[kɛːmbɹɪʤ] so I lived in the south for a good ten years or more; 0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with

you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches

[hɛːʧɪz] in front of the where aitches [hɛːʧɪz] shouldn’t be because you’re thinking about what you’re



saying [sɛɪʲɪn]; 0:46:17 never met the chap spoke to him a couple of times on the phone had good rapport

with him but never met him and we were just tak… and then he just suddenly effed it into the conversation

[kɒɱvəsɛːʃən] and then and it just completely changed [ʧɛːnʒd] my perception of my relationship

[ɹɪlɛːʃənʃɪp] with this bloke; 0:47:27 you can tell with people’s faces [fɛɪsəz] if I swore there’s like, “oh”

you know, “I wouldn’t’ve thought you’d’ve spoke like that basically [bɛɪsɪklɪ])

always (0:32:18 and I’m never quite sure what an accent is and what a dialect is but I always

[ɔːwɪz] think people who use a lot of dialect words generally do sound very stupid and very thick;

0:36:26 you hear somebody on TV and they always [ɔː wɛɪz] seem to pick on (they always [ɔːwɪz]

seem to pick the thickest person) the most northernest person you could ever imagine; 0:41:34 I

thi… I think it’s demise of buying uh boiled sweets by the quarter I mean uh we always [ɔːwɪz]

used to call them ‘spice’ (yeah) (yeah) “I’m go… I’m going for a quarter of spice” (yeah, yeah);

0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always [ɔːwɪz] say the F-word at least once but I purposefully do

it I purposely say it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then once I’ve gotten the

mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or not)

say (0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different conversations with different

people if I’d spea... be saying it to my mother I’d say, [sɛː] “are you unwell are you poorly?” but if

I were saying it to my boss I’d say [sɛ] ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’; 0:19:05 it was really peculiar but it was

very marked the contrast before how how we were talking when we left, say, [sɛ] Reading and how

we were talking when we arrived in South Yorkshire; 0:27:15 you often say [sɛ] ‘thingy’ (oh, I’ve

picked that one up from you); 0:32:53 (give me an example) I knew you were going to say [sɛ] that

and I was ra… I was desperately trying to think of one as I was talking; 0:34:35 well hopefully I

was going to say [sɛ] ‘touch wood’ but we’ve only got glass and I thought, “that’ll have to do”;

0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say [sɛ] the F-word at least once but I purposefully do it I

purposely say [sɛi] it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then once I’ve gotten the

mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or not)

PALM~START8 [aː > ɑː]

(0:01:46 ’cause normally when I am unwell it’s because I am very tired uh ’cause uh my um rather

unusual life [ɹɑːðəɹ ʊnjʊuːʒə laif] so but it’s usually when I’m I’m very feeling very low that um that I

feel very very ‘knackered’; 0:06:35 what i... what is interesting in in this area is that you can almost tell

which part [paːt] of the town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle but you can

do it; 0:20:14 there’s no point speaking to someone from another part [pɑːʔ] of the country and they’re

kind of stood there looking saying, “what you talking about I can’t understand what you’re saying”;

0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as well that I only had one I only had one

grandma [gɹamɑː] ’cause, like, my my dad’s mum died as, like, the year I were born; 0:26:33 and Lynne

always called her grandparents ‘nannan’ (yeah) and it were, you know, ‘Nannan Swaithe’ or ‘Nannan

Whatever’ but I I never did but my mum always said, “oh, your nannan’s this” or “you can go an fetch

your nannan” but I always called her ‘grandma’ [gɹanmaː]; 0:35:12 you know if somebody speaks really

northern Barnsley [baːnzlɪ] dialects then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but you you can’t [kaːnʔ]

just assume that it’s wrong to think like that; 0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is,

like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […]

it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah,

when we was at the shop for liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish [baːɾ ə spanɪʃ] bizarre, isn’t

it? [bɪzaːɹ ɪntɪʔ])

THOUGHT [ɔː]

8 One speaker (Roy) varies between [aː > ɑː]; the other two speakers vary between [ɑː > aː].



(0:04:22 it is a very much a British a a Yorkshire word, (yeah) is maungy, [mɔːnʤɪ] I’ve never come

across it anywhere else but it is difficult to get across what you mean by that person wor… by that word;

0:13:06 the word that I would use when I grew up I wouldn’t that wouldn’t come into my vocabulary now

in that way that why would I want to cha… talk [tɔːk] about children’s small [smɔː ] shoes; 0:42:55 if the

it’s something I think, “wow” I’ll say, “awesome” [ɔːsəm] or, “excellent wicked” um that’s it really I’ve

not really got I th… a lot of people used to say I use ‘awesome’ [ɔːsəm] a lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting)

GOAT9 [ɔː ~ ɔʊ > əʊ]

(0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ [kɔː d] be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’ ‘happy’

‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:04:14 it’s a whole [hɔʊ ] host [hɔːst] of things that you can’t

actually translate in a sense; 0:23:57 and that that’s what I see reflected in in how we do it and the way

we talk to people on the phone [fɔːn] is totally [tɔːtəlɪ] different; 0:35:03 even though [ðəʊ] we associate

[əsəʊsiɛɪʔ] just because of the accent that they’re not educated I I don’t [dəʊnʔ] think you should be doing

that really; 0:46:17 never met the chap spoke [spɔʊk] to him a couple of times on the phone [fɔːn] had

good rapport with him but never met him and we were just tak… and then he just suddenly effed it into the

conversation and then and it just completely changed my perception of my relationship with this bloke

[blɔʊk]; 0:50:06 I mean we only saw him once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that needn’t

mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve washed us mouth out

with soap [səʊp])

almost, <-ow> (0:40:59 even ‘spadge’ (you what what’s ‘spadge’?) ‘spadge’ I don’t know

‘sparrow’ [spaɹə] it’s short for ‘sparrow’ [spaɹə] (yeah, it is, yeah) “are you all right, sparrow?”

[spaɹə] sparr… “are you all right s…?” you know “spadge?”; 0:46:44 it was almost [ɔːməs] like a

putting down of the barriers or he was feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the same with

me)

clothes (0:13:24 ‘clothes’ [klɔːz] would be ‘clothes’ [klʊəz] ‘trousers’ would be ‘trousers’ and

‘PE’ uh ‘shoes’ would be ‘pumps’)

don’t (0:50:31 (would he have if it was a son though?) I don’t [dʊnʔ] think so I very much doubt it)

go(ing) (to) (0:18:32 I moved away when I was eighteen to go [gʊ] to university so I’ve lived in

Reading I’ve lived in London I’ve lived in Cambridge so I lived in the south for a good ten years or

more; 0:32:53 (give me an example) I knew you were going to [gʊnə] say that and I was ra… I was

desperately trying to think of one as I was talking; 0:34:35 well hopefully I was going to [gʊnə] say

‘touch wood’ but we’ve only got glass and I thought, “that’ll have to do”; 0:38:36 at one time you

could go [gɔː] to Sheffield and you stood out like a bloody sore thumb with a Barnsley accent but

now it’s all very much has merge… it’s all very much merged; 0:39:36 I go [gʊ] to London a lot

and I’ve never hea… heard half of, you know, people talk like that; 0:41:34 I thi… I think it’s

demise of buying uh boiled sweets by the quarter I mean uh we always used to call them ‘spice’

(yeah) (yeah) “I’m go… I’m going [gʊɪn] for a quarter of spice” (yeah, yeah); 0:41:49 but would

you say you were going [gʊɪn] to the ‘sweet shop’ or going to the [gʊnəʔ] ‘spice shop’? (going to

the spice shop “off to the spice sho… off to the spice shop” […]) see we always used to say going

[gʊɪn] to the sweet shop but we always used to ask go [gʊ] ask for spice; 0:45:55 when I go [gʊ] to

meetings I always say the F-word at least once but I purposefully do it I purposely say it to s…

read the reaction of people round the and then once I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I

know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or not)

only, over (0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as well that I only

[ɔʊnli] had one I only [ɔʊnli] had one grandma ’cause, like, my my dad’s mum died as, like, the

9 One speaker (Sarah) generally favours [əʊ]; the other two speakers vary between [ɔː ~ ɔʊ].



year I were born; 0:34:35 well hopefully I was going to say ‘touch wood’ but we’ve only [ɒnɪ] got

glass and I thought, “that’ll have to do”; 0:48:56 you see young mothers or young families

walking past and they’ll scr… be screaming hysterically at a child, “fucking get over here [ɒvəɹ

ɪə] you silly little twat”; 0:50:06 I mean we only [ɒnɪ] saw him once a week anyway so it was quite

but we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum

would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

GOOSE [ʊuː > uː]

(0:02:31 when I’m at work because we have such a good working relationship generally here then

language is much looser [lʊuːsə] and much freer; 0:13:06 the word that I would use [jʊuːz] when I grew

up [gɹʊuː ʊp] I wouldn’t that wouldn’t come into my vocabulary now in that way that why would I want to

cha… talk about children’s small shoes [ʃʊuːz]; 0:18:32 I moved [mʊuːvd] away when I was eighteen to

go to university [juːnəvəːsətɪ] so I’ve lived in Reading I’ve lived in London I’ve lived in Cambridge so I

lived in the south for a good ten years or more; 0:31:02 to [tʊuː] a degree it’s not as bad as what it was

years ago because there is, you know, s… a lot of people that are going to university [juːnəvəːsətɪ] that

still continue [kɒntɪnjʊuː] with their accent; 0:32:18 and I’m never quite sure what an accent is and what

a dialect is but I always think people who [ʊuː] use [jʊuːz] a lot of dialect words generally do [dʊuː]

sound very stupid [stjʊuːpɪd] and very thick; 0:35:12 you know if somebody speaks really northern

Barnsley dialects then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but you you can’t just assume [əsuːm] that it’s

wrong to think like that)

Wombwell (0:07:17 say from Kendray Wombwell [wʊmwɛ ] Cawthorne (yeah, oh yeah, def...,

yeah) (yeah, yeah) even just areas on the outskirts of Barnsley it completely changes completely

changes, yeah)

you (0:27:15 you often [jɒftən] say ‘thingy’ (oh, I’ve picked that one up from you); 0:36:26 you

hear [jɪː] somebody on TV and they always seem to pick on (they always seem to pick the thickest

person) the most northernest person you could ever imagine)

PRICE [ai]

(0:04:01 somebody once asked me and I tried to [tɹait tu] ex… to ex… uh to describe [dɪskɾaib] what it

meant and it was really difficult; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child [ʧai d]

as well that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, [laik] my my dad’s mum died [daid] as,

like, [laik] the year I were born; 0:41:34 I thi… I think it’s demise [dɪmaiz] of buying [baɪʲɪn] uh boiled

sweets by the quarter I mean uh we always used to call them ‘spice’ [spais] (yeah) (yeah) “I’m go… I’m

going for a quarter of spice” [spais] (yeah, yeah); 0:49:31 I once heard my dad say, “fuck it” and I were

absolutely mortified [mɔːtɪfaid] absolutely mortified [mɔːtɪfaid] my mother still doesn’t swear in front of

me whether she swears or not)

dialect, tired (0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’

‘happy’ ‘tired’ [taiəd] ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:01:46 ’cause normally when I am unwell it’s

because I am very tired [taiəd] uh ’cause uh my um rather unusual life so but it’s usually when I’m

I’m very feeling very low that um that I feel very very ‘knackered’; 0:35:12 you know if somebody

speaks really northern Barnsley dialects [daiəlɛks] then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but

you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think like that)

<-ight> (0:07:39 (yeah, my dad used to use ‘belt’) yeah (yeah, “I’ll belt you”) yeah, he used to,

like, “give me a right [ɹaɛʔ] belt”; 0:33:05 sometimes sometimes I’d be saying “oh, I’ve had a right

[ɹaɛʔ] bad night” [niːt] you know and I go, “oh my God I mean a bad night” [nait] […] do you

know what I mean it’s it’s easier to say ‘night’ [niːt] (yeah) than it is to say ‘night’ [nait] (yeah)

you use less muscles with ‘night’ [niːt])



my (0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different conversations with different

people if I’d spea... be saying it to my [mɪ] mother I’d say, “are you unwell are you poorly?” but if

I were saying it to my [mɪ] boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’; 0:07:39 yeah, my [mɪ] dad used to use

‘belt’ (yeah) yeah, “I’ll belt you” (yeah, he used to, like, “gie me a right belt”); 0:24:25 yeah,

’cause if I were excited or, you know, happy and I were speaking to my [mɪ] family then it would

come out in a completely different way, yeah; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as

as a child as well that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, my [mɪ] my [mɪ] dad’s

mum died as, like, the year I were born; 0:30:21 I find it quite difficult to do it but I’m also

incredibly embarrassed about my [mi] accent as well; 0:44:17 I love the C-word and I use it a lot if

I’m with my [mɪ] friends; 0:49:31 I once heard my [mɪ] dad say, “fuck it” and I were absolutely

mortified absolutely mortified my [mɪ] mother still doesn’t swear in front of me whether she

swears or not; 0:49:56 my [ma] mum never never even said ‘bloody’ ‘chuffing’ anything like but

my [ma] dad he just it was as if he was saying ‘hello’ “fucking this fucking that”)

CHOICE [ɔɪ]

(0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ [bɔɪlɪn] ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ [ənɔɪd] ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’

‘happy’ ‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:20:14 there’s no point [pɔɪnʔ] speaking to someone from

another part of the country and they’re kind of stood there looking saying, “what you talking about I can’t

understand what you’re saying”)

MOUTH [aʊ > aː]

(0:04:58 ‘to play truant’ would be ‘wagging it’ ‘to sleep’ would be ‘boun to bed’ [baːn ə bɛd] ‘to play’

would be “are you laking?”; 0:07:17 say from Kendray Wombwell Cawthorne (yeah, oh yeah, def..., yeah)

(yeah, yeah) even just areas on the outskirts [aːʔskəːts] of Barnsley it completely changes completely

changes, yeah; 0:08:44 ‘left-handed’ it be ‘left-handed’ ‘unattractive’ ‘hound’ [haʊnd] ‘minger’; 0:18:32

I moved away when I was eighteen to go to university so I’ve lived in Reading I’ve lived in London I’ve

lived in Cambridge so I lived in the south [saʊθ] for a good ten years or more; 0:33:37 if I said to

someone I were working with, you know like, professionally, “I’m off to the shop” you sound [saːnd] a bit

thick; 0:33:54 kind of taking it one step further, “I’m off out” [amɒfaːt] (yeah) and it’s like, “what does

‘I’m off out’ [amɒfaːʔ] mean?”; 0:50:06 I mean we only saw him once a week anyway so it was quite but

we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve

washed us mouth [maʊθ] out [aʊʔ] with soap)

our (0:18:57 we actually found as we came north we became more northern our accents [aːɹ

aksənts] changed and as we went back they changed back again)

thou (0:22:06 you know I mean it’s like now sometimes I’ll be saying I’ll drop back and Dave’ll

say, “who the fucking hell’s thou [ða] think thou [ðaɪ] are?” you know um because I’ll be using a

posh word or a word we wouldn’t normally use in general banter)

NEAR [iə ~ ɪː]

(0:02:31 when I’m at work because we have such a good working relationship generally here [hiə] then

language is much looser and much freer; 0:03:02 it’s much more important sort of in a more formal

setting that the language is very tightly controlled because you need to be very clear [kliə] in what’s being

said; 0:18:32 I moved away when I was eighteen to go to university so I’ve lived in Reading I’ve lived in

London I’ve lived in Cambridge so I lived in the south for a good ten years [jɪːz] or more; 0:36:26 you

hear [jɪː] somebody on TV and they always seem to pick on (they always seem to pick the thickest person)

the most northernest person you could ever imagine)

SQUARE [ɛː > ɛə]

(0:06:35 what i... what is interesting in in this area [ɛːɾiə] is that you can almost tell which part of the

town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle but you can do it; 0:18:42 my accent



may have changed not just because of the education but because being down there [ðɛə] there’s no point

talking using words that nobody can understand; 0:24:45 ‘baby’ would be ‘baby’ I’d never say the word

‘bairn’ [bɛːn] never have done never will; 0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah [sɛːɹə] is that she

actually puts the aitches in the middle of the words not not at the front of them so when you’re trying to be

posh you put an aitch at the front of the word but Sarah [sɛːɾə] puts it in the middle)

NORTH [ɔː > ɔ(ː)ə]

(0:06:47 I can listen to people with Yorkshire accents [jɔːkʃəɹ aksənts] and I’ll know whether they’re from

South Yorkshire [saʊθ jɔːkʃə] or [ɔː] North Yorkshire or West Yorkshire [nɔːθ jɔːkʃəɹ ɔː wɛst jɔːkʃə];

0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as well that I only had one I only had one

grandma ’cause, like, my my dad’s mum died as, like, the year I were born [bɔːn]; 0:35:12 you know if

somebody speaks really northern [nɔːðən] Barnsley dialects then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but

you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think like that; 0:42:36 (so there isn’t a common word that

you use?) obviously ‘gorgeous’ [gɔəʤəs] (it is) (all the time) all the time obviously; 0:46:44 it was almost

like a putting down of the barriers or [ɔːə] he was feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the same

with me)

forty (0:28:53 with that day when we went to Manchester Sarah slipped up and went, “forty”

[fɒtːɪ] rather than, “forty” [fɔːtɪ] (but I think it depends who what company you’re in if they speak

like that but I am not thinking before I speak though))

for (0:41:08 well we’d say ‘Spanish’ (‘Spanish’?) which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you

got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for [fɒ] ‘liquorice’ we’d say

‘Spanish’ (yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at the

shop for [fə] liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish [fəɾ ə baːɾ ə spanɪʃ] bizarre, isn’t it?);

0:41:49 but would you say you were going to the ‘sweet shop’ or going to the ‘spice shop’? (going

to the spice shop “off to the spice sho… off to the spice shop” […]) see we always used to say

going to the sweet shop but we always used to ask go ask for [fɒ] spice)

FORCE [ɔː > ɔə]

(0:09:31 ‘moody’ could be ‘maungy’ depending but I wouldn’t associate the word ‘maungy’ with ‘moody’

because it’s more [mɔː] than just ‘moody’; 0:18:32 I moved away when I was eighteen to go to university

so I’ve lived in Reading I’ve lived in London I’ve lived in Cambridge so I lived in the south for a good ten

years or more [mɔə]; 0:38:36 at one time you could go to Sheffield and you stood out like a bloody sore

thumb [sɔː θʊm] with a Barnsley accent but now it’s all very much has merge… it’s all very much

merged)

CURE [ʊə ~ uə]

(0:09:42 ‘left hand’ I think they used to say ‘cacky hand’ I’m not sure I’m sure [ʃʊəɹ am ʃʊə] we used to

say ‘cacky hand’ (no, what do you say though) yeah, but that’s what we used to say at school but I can’t

remember I think it were ‘cacky hand’; 0:32:18 and I’m never quite sure [ʃuə] what an accent is and what

a dialect is but I always think people who use a lot of dialect words generally do sound very stupid and

very thick)

poorly (0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different conversations with different

people if I’d spea... be saying it to my mother I’d say, “are you unwell are you poorly?” [pʊuːlɪ]

but if I were saying it to my boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’ [pʊuːlɪ])

happY [ɪ > i]

(0:01:46 ’cause normally [nɔːmlɪ] when I am unwell it’s because I am very [vɛɹi] tired uh ’cause uh my um

rather unusual life so but it’s usually [jːuʒəlɪ] when I’m I’m very [vɛɹɪ] feeling very [vɛɾɪ] low that um that

I feel very [vɛɾɪ] very [vɛɾɪ] ‘knackered’; 0:24:25 yeah, ’cause if I were excited or, you know, happy [hapɪ]

and I were speaking to my family [famlɪ] then it would come out in a completely [kɒmpliːʔlɪ] different



way, yeah; 0:28:53 (with that day when we went to Manchester Sarah slipped up and went, “forty” [fɒtːɪ]

rather than, “forty” [fɔːtɪ]) but I think it depends who what company [kʊmpni] you’re in if they speak like

that but I am not thinking before I speak though; 0:34:28 you know so it’s that part of it that I think makes

it sound ma… makes you sound stupid because it actually [akʃəlɪ] makes you sound lazy [lɛːzi]; 0:35:12

you know if somebody [sʊmbdɪ] speaks really [ɹɪːlɪ] northern Barnsley [baːnzlɪ] dialects then I just think,

“oh thick shit” basically [bɛɪsɪklɪ] but you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think like that; 0:38:36

at one time you could go to Sheffield and you stood out like a bloody [blʊdɪ] sore thumb with a Barnsley

accent [baːnzli aksɛnʔ] but now it’s all very [vɛɾɪ] much has merge… it’s all very [vɛɾɪ] much merged)

lettER~commA [ə]

(0:06:35 what i... what is interesting in in this area [ɛːɾiə] is that you can almost tell which part of the

town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle but you can do it; 0:46:44 it was

almost like a putting down of the barriers [baɹiəz] or he was feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the

same with me; 0:47:59 my father [fɑːðə] s…, you know, swore like a trooper [tɹʊuːpə] when he was

outside)

horsES [ə > ɪ]

(0:07:17 say from Kendray Wombwell Cawthorne (yeah, oh yeah, def..., yeah) (yeah, yeah) even just areas

on the outskirts of Barnsley it completely changes [ʧɛɪnʤəz] completely changes, [ʧɛɪnʤəz] yeah;

0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up

on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches [hɛːʧɪz] in front of the where aitches [hɛːʧɪz] shouldn’t be because

you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually

puts the aitches [ɛːʧəz] in the middle of the words not not at the front of them so when you’re trying to be

posh you put an aitch at the front of the word but Sarah puts it in the middle; 0:47:27 you can tell with

people’s faces [fɛɪsəz] if I swore there’s like, “oh” you know, “I wouldn’t’ve thought you’d’ve spoke like

that basically)

startED [ə > ɪ]

(0:08:44 ‘left-handed’ [lɛfthandəd] it be ‘left-handed’ [lɛfthandəd] ‘unattractive’ ‘hound’ ‘minger’;

0:14:14 but ‘pumps’ to us are it’s, like, it’s uh the it’s the black thing with the elasticated [ɪlastɪkɛːtɪd]

front that’s a ‘pump’; 0:23:57 and that that’s what I see reflected [ɹɪflɛktɪd] in in how we do it and the

way we talk to people on the phone is totally different; 0:24:25 yeah, ’cause if I were excited [ɛksaitəd] or,

you know, happy and I were speaking to my family then it would come out in a completely different way,

yeah; 0:30:26 if I’m having a conversation with, you know like, someone work-related [wəːkɹɪlɛːtəd] I’d

be quite embarrassed about my common accent)

mornING [ɪ]

(0:06:35 what i... what is interesting [ɪntɹɛstɪŋ] in in this area is that you can almost tell which part of the

town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle but you can do it; 0:45:55 when I go

to meetings [miːtɪŋz] I always say the F-word at least once but I purposefully do it I purposely say it to

s… read the reaction of people round the and then once I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I

know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or not; 0:46:44 it was almost like a putting [pʊdɪŋ]

down of the barriers or he was feeling [fiːlɪŋ] to see how far he could go and it’s the same with me;

0:42:55 if the it’s something [sʊmθɪn] I think, “wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or, “excellent wicked” um

that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of people used to say I use ‘awesome’ a lot and ‘excellent’ if

I’m texting [tɛksɪn])

ZERO RHOTICITY

PLOSIVES



T

frequent word final T-glottaling (e.g.0:04:22 it is a very much a British a a Yorkshire word, (yeah) is

maungy, I’ve never come across it [ɪʔ] anywhere else but it [ɪʔ] is difficult to get [gɛʔ] across what [wɒʔ]

you mean by that [ðaʔ] person wor… by that [ðaʔ] word; 0:10:42 it [ɪʔ] would be, “she’s a looker”

meaning she’s ‘ugly’ that’s the way that [ðəʔ] I would put it [ɪʔ]; 0:11:12 I know we’ve we’ve all often

done it [ɪʔ] in that [ðaʔ] way that [ðəʔ] you’ve seen someone really ugly and you’ve said, “she’s worth

one”; 0:28:37 but [bəʔ] I’ve not [nɒʔ] got [gɒʔ] a problem with it [ɪʔ]; 0:31:02 to a degree it’s not [nɒʔ] as

bad as what [wɒʔ] it [ɪʔ] was years ago because there is, you know, s… a lot [lɒʔ] of people that [ðəʔ] are

going to university that [ðəʔ] still continue with their accent [aksənʔ]; 0:42:55 if the it’s something I think,

“wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or, “excellent [ɛksələnʔ] wicked” um that’s it [ɪʔ] really I’ve not [nɒʔ] really

got [gɒʔ] I th… a lot [lɒʔ] of people used to say I use ‘awesome’ a lot [lɒʔ] and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting;

0:50:06 I mean we only saw him once a week anyway so it [ɪʔ] was quite [kwaiʔ] but [bəʔ] we ne… that

[ðaʔ] needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that [ðaʔ] in front of my mum my mum would’ve

washed us mouth out [aʊʔ] with soap)

word medial & syllable initial T-glottaling (0:03:02 it’s much more important [ɪmpɔːʔn t] sort of in a

more formal setting that the language is very tightly controlled because you need to be very clear in

what’s being said; 0:25:09 ‘word for something whose name you’ve forgotten’ [fəgɒʔn ] ‘thingy’ ‘thingy’

‘thingymebob’; 0:44:48 it could be light-hearted [laiʔɑːʔəd] it could be creative or it could be aggressive

depending on how you say it; 0:49:12 there’s different levels of swearing (yeah) in in my book in that way

that you can say, like, oh like, “oh fuck it” or, “you stupid twat” or whatever [wɒʔɛvə] but it’s kind of

never in that aggressive way)

T-tapping (0:06:35 what i... [wɒɾ ɪ] what is [wɒɾ ɪz] interesting in in this area is that you can almost tell

which part of the town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle but you can do it;

0:26:33 and Lynne always called her grandparents ‘nannan’ (yeah) and it were, you know, ‘Nannan

Swaithe’ or ‘Nannan Whatever’ [nanan wɒɾɛvə] but I I never did but my mum always said, “oh, your

nannan’s this” or “you can go an fetch your nannan” but I always called her ‘grandma’)

frequent T-voicing (e.g. 0:01:46 ’cause normally when I am unwell it’s because I am very tired uh ’cause

uh my um rather unusual life so but [bəd] it’s usually when I’m I’m very feeling very low that um that I

feel very very ‘knackered’; 0:04:22 it [ɪd] is a very much a British a a Yorkshire word, (yeah) is maungy,

I’ve never come across it anywhere else but [bəd] it is difficult to get across what you mean by that person

wor… by that word; 0:11:22 you’ve got [gɒd] it completely wrong, Roy, you’re you’re not getting the

subtle uh subtle sarcasm, are you; 0:29:27 what [wɒd] I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually

puts the aitches in the middle of the words not not at the front of them so when you’re trying to be posh

you put [pʊd] an aitch at the front of the word but Sarah puts it in the middle; 0:32:18 and I’m never quite

sure what an accent is and what [wɒd] a dialect is but [bəd] I always think people who use a lot [lɒd] of

dialect words generally do sound very stupid and very thick; 0:37:13 nobody’s talked like that since turn

of the century not [nɒd] even in Castleford; 0:46:44 it was almost like a putting [pʊdɪŋ] down of the

barriers or he was feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the same with me; 0:48:56 you see young

mothers or young families walking past and they’ll scr… be screaming hysterically at a child, “fucking get

[gɛd] over here you silly little twat”)

T to R (0:09:42 ‘left hand’ I think they used to say ‘cacky hand’ I’m not sure I’m sure we used to say

‘cacky hand’ (no, what do you say though) yeah, but that’s what we used to say at school but I [bʊɹ a]

can’t remember I think it were ‘cacky hand’; 0:10:42 it would be, “she’s a looker” meaning she’s ‘ugly’

that’s the way that I would put it [pɵɹ ɪʔ]; 0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually

puts the aitches in the middle of the words not not at the front [nɒɹ əʔ ðə fɹʊnt] of them so when you’re



trying to be posh you put an aitch at the front of the word but Sarah puts it in the middle; 0:38:50 the

rough parts in Sheffield (oh I never go to the rough parts) is uh the city centre, yeah, because there’s such

a mixed multicultural (yeah) with the universities but I [bəɹ a] still think the outskirts the rough areas of

Sheffield have still got that broad accent)

NASALS

NG

velar nasal plus (0:08:44 ‘left-handed’ it be ‘left-handed’ ‘unattractive’ ‘hound’ ‘minger’ [mɪŋgə];

0:25:09 ‘word for something whose name you’ve forgotten’ ‘thingy’ [θɪŋgɪ] ‘thingy’ [θɪŋgɪ]

‘thingymebob’ [θɪŋgɪmɪbɒb]; 0:27:15 you often say ‘thingy’ [θɪŋgɪ] (oh, I’ve picked that one up from

you))

very frequent NG-fronting (0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ [bɔɪlɪn] ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ [fɹiːzɪn]

‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’ ‘pleased’ ‘happy’ ‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:02:31 when I’m at work

because we have such a good working [wəːkɪn] relationship generally here then language is much looser

and much freer; 0:04:58 ‘to play truant’ would be ‘wagging [wagɪn] it’ ‘to sleep’ would be ‘boun to bed’

‘to play’ would be “are you laking?” [lɛɪkɪn]; 0:09:31 ‘moody’ could be ‘maungy’ depending [dɪpɛndɪn]

but I wouldn’t associate the word ‘maungy’ with ‘moody’ because it’s more than just ‘moody’; 0:29:05

sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up on this

one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where aitches shouldn’t be because you’re thinking [θɪŋkɪn]

about what you’re saying [sɛɪʲɪn]; 0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for

instance and they want some comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging hell [fɾɪgɪn ɛ ] do

you go and talk to somebody with a flat cap and a whippet; 0:42:55 if the it’s something [sʊmθɪn] I think,

“wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or, “excellent wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of

people used to say I use ‘awesome’ a lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting [tɛksɪn])

N

syllabic N with nasal release (0:13:06 the word that I would use when I grew up I wouldn’t [wʊdn ʔ] that

wouldn’t [wʊdn ʔ] come into my vocabulary now in that way that why would I want to cha… talk about

children’s small shoes; 0:22:06 you know I mean it’s like now sometimes I’ll be saying I’ll drop back and

Dave’ll say, “who the fucking hell’s thou think thou are?” you know um because I’ll be using a posh

word or a word we wouldn’t [wʊdn t] normally use in general banter; 0:28:26 he didn’t [dɪdn t] know it

was me and all I said was, “good morning Design Centre”; 0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you

it’s like a real conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front

of the where aitches shouldn’t [ʃʊdn ʔ] be because you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:47:27 you

can tell with people’s faces if I swore there’s like, “oh” you know, “I wouldn’t’ve [wʊdn tə] thought

you’d’ve spoke like that basically; 0:50:06 I mean we only saw him once a week anyway so it was quite

but we ne… that needn’t [niːdn t] mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my

mum would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

syllabic N with epenthetic schwa (0:11:12 I know we’ve we’ve all often [ɒftən] done it in that way that

you’ve seen someone really ugly and you’ve said, “she’s worth one”; 0:27:15 you often [jɒftən] say

‘thingy’ (oh, I’ve picked that one up from you); 0:40:08 and whether that’s due due to education or just

the fact that geographically people mo… are moving more often [ɒftən] I don’t know; 0:44:33 I don’t use

it offensively that often [ɒftən] but when I do use it offensively I say it and I really mean it)

FRICATIVES



H

frequent H-dropping (e.g. 0:09:42 ‘left hand’ [lɛft and] I think they used to say ‘cacky hand’ [kaki and]

I’m not sure I’m sure we used to say ‘cacky hand’ [kaki and] (no, what do you say though) yeah, but that’s

what we used to say at school but I can’t remember I think it were ‘cacky hand’ [kaki and]; 0:36:26 you

hear [jɪː] somebody on TV and they always seem to pick on (they always seem to pick the thickest person)

the most northernest person you could ever imagine; 0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire

Sculpture Park for instance and they want some comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging

hell [fɾɪgɪn ɛ ] do you go and talk to somebody with a flat cap and a whippet; 0:39:36 I go to London a lot

and I’ve never hea… [əː] heard [əːd] half [aːf] of, you know, people talk like that; 0:48:56 you see young

mothers or young families walking past and they’ll scr… be screaming hysterically [ɪstɛɹɪklɪ] at a child,

“fucking get over here [ɪə] you silly little twat”; 0:49:31 I once heard [əːd] my dad say, “fuck it” and I

were absolutely mortified absolutely mortified my mother still doesn’t swear in front of me whether she

swears or not)

hypercorrect H (0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like,

Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches [hɛːʧɪz] in front of the where aitches [hɛːʧɪz]

shouldn’t be because you’re thinking about what you’re saying)

LIQUIDS

R10

approximant R (0:01:46 ’cause normally when I am unwell it’s because I am very [vɛɹi] tired uh ’cause

uh my um rather unusual life [ɹɑːðəɹ ʊnjʊuːʒə laif] so but it’s usually when I’m I’m very [vɛɹɪ] feeling

very low that um that I feel very very ‘knackered’; 0:06:35 what i... what is interesting [ɪntɹɛstɪŋ] in in this

area is that you can almost tell which part of the town (yeah, you can) people come from [fɹɒm] (no) oh

yeah, it’s very [vɛɹɪ] subtle but you can do it; 0:29:27 what I find interesting [ɪntɹəstɪŋ] about Sarah

[sɛːɹə] is that she actually puts the aitches in the middle of the words not not at the front [fɹʊnt] of them so

when you’re trying [tɹain] to be posh you put an aitch at the front [fɹʊnt] of the word but Sarah puts it in

the middle; 0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is, like, ‘liquorice’ [lɪkəɹɪʃ] but we say,

“have you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ [lɪkəɹɪʃ]

we’d say ‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right [ɹaiʔ] as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was

at the shop for liquorice [lɪkəɹɪʃ] we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it? [bɪzaːɹ ɪntɪʔ];

0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say the F-word at least once but I purposefully do it I purposely

say it to s… read [ɹiːd] the reaction [ɹiakʃən] of people round [ɹaʊnd] the and then once I’ve gotten the

mood of the moo… the room [ɹʊuːm] I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or not

[swɛːɹ ɛnɪ mɔːɹ ɔː nɒʔ]; 0:46:44 it was almost like a putting down of the barriers [baɹiəz] or he was

feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the same with me)

R-tapping (0:01:46 ’cause normally when I am unwell it’s because I am very tired uh ’cause uh my um

rather unusual life so but it’s usually when I’m I’m very feeling very [vɛɾɪ] low that um that I feel very

[vɛɾɪ] very [vɛɾɪ] ‘knackered’; 0:06:35 what i... what is interesting in in this area [ɛːɾiə] is that you can

almost tell which part of the town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle but you

can do it; 0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually puts the aitches in the middle of

the words not not at the front of them so when you’re trying to be posh you put an aitch at the front of the

word but Sarah [sɛːɾə] puts it in the middle; 0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture

Park for instance [fəɾ ɪnstəns] and they want some comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the

10 One speaker (Roy) varies between [ɹ > ɾ]; the other two speakers consistently use [ɹ].



frigging hell [fɾɪgɪn ɛ ] do you go and talk to somebody with a flat cap and a whippet; 0:41:08 (well we’d

say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got any Spanish?” and even

Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right as kids we

always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at the shop for liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of

Spanish [fəɾ ə baːɾ ə spanɪʃ] bizarre, isn’t it?; 0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say the F-word at

least once but I purposefully do it I purposely say it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then

once I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s [wɛðəɾ ɪts] OK to actually

swear any more or not)

L

clear onset L (0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ [bɔɪlɪn] ‘cold’ be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’

‘pleased’ [pliːzd] ‘happy’ ‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ ‘sick’; 0:18:32 I moved away when I was eighteen

to go to university so I’ve lived [lɪvd] in Reading I’ve lived [lɪvd] in London [lʊndən] I’ve lived [lɪvd] in

Cambridge so I lived [lɪvd] in the south for a good ten years or more; 0:46:17 never met the chap spoke to

him a couple of times on the phone had good rapport with him but never met him and we were just tak…

and then he just suddenly [sʊdn lɪ] effed it into the conversation and then and it just completely

[kɒmpliːtlɪ] changed my perception of my relationship [ɹɪlɛːʃənʃɪp] with this bloke [blɔʊk])

dark coda L (e.g. 0:00:29 ‘hot’ would be ‘boiling’ ‘cold’ [kɔː d] be ‘freezing’ ‘annoyed’ ‘pissed off’

‘pleased’ ‘happy’ ‘tired’ ‘knackered’ ‘unwell’ [ʊnwɛ ] ‘sick’; 0:03:02 it’s much more important sort of in

a more formal [fɔːmə ] setting that the language is very tightly controlled [kɒntɹɔʊ d] because you need

to be very clear in what’s being said; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child

[ʧai d] as well [əz wɛ ] that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, my my dad’s mum died

as, like, the year I were born; 0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture Park [jɔːkʃə

skʊ pʧə pɑːk] for instance and they want some comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging

hell [fɾɪgɪn ɛ ] do you go and talk to somebody with a flat cap and a whippet)

syllabic L with lateral release (0:06:35 what i... what is interesting in in this area is that you can almost

tell which part of the town (yeah, you can) people come from (no) oh yeah, it’s very subtle [sʊt ] but you

can do it; 0:11:22 you’ve got it completely wrong, Roy, you’re you’re not getting the subtle [sʊt ] uh

subtle [sʊt ] sarcasm, are you; 0:11:46 ‘insane’ ‘mental’ [mɛnt ] ‘moody’ ‘moody’ really; 0:29:27 what I

find interesting about Sarah is that she actually puts the aitches in the middle [mɪd ] of the words not not

at the front of them so when you’re trying to be posh you put an aitch at the front of the word but Sarah

puts it in the middle [mɪd ]; 0:48:56 you see young mothers or young families walking past and they’ll

scr… be screaming hysterically at a child, “fucking get over here you silly little [lɪt ] twat”)

GLIDES

J

yod with D, T (0:32:18 and I’m never quite sure what an accent is and what a dialect is but I always think

people who use a lot of dialect words generally do sound very stupid [stjʊuːpɪd] and very thick; 0:34:28

you know so it’s that part of it that I think makes it sound ma… makes you sound stupid [stjuːpɪd] because

it actually makes you sound lazy; 0:40:08 and whether that’s due [djʊ] due [djʊuː] to education or just the

fact that geographically people mo… are moving more often I don’t know)

yod dropping with N (0:32:53 (give me an example) I knew [nuː] you were going to say that and I was

ra… I was desperately trying to think of one as I was talking)

yod with word medial S (0:36:57 they want that association [əsɔːsiɛːʃən] the media people and it’s, like,

we’ve too many professional Yorkshire people on the television; 0:35:03 even though we associate



[əsəʊsiɛɪʔ] just because of the accent that they’re not educated I I don’t think you should be doing that

really)

yod dropping with word medial S (0:35:12 you know if somebody speaks really northern Barnsley

dialects then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but you you can’t just assume [əsuːm] that it’s wrong to

think like that)

yod dropping – other (0:13:06 the word that I would use when I grew up I wouldn’t that wouldn’t come

into my vocabulary [vɔːkabələɹi] now in that way that why would I want to cha… talk about children’s

small shoes; 0:21:56 certainly what I found with education then that I learnt a whole new vocabulary

[vəkabələɹi] and it wasn’t a vocabulary [vəkabələɹi] that actually had a regional significance to it)

yod coalescence (0:09:31 ‘moody’ could be ‘maungy’ depending but I wouldn’t associate [əsɔːʃiɛːt] the

word ‘maungy’ with ‘moody’ because it’s more than just ‘moody’; 0:18:42 my accent may have changed

not just because of the education [ɛʤəkɛːʃən] but because being down there there’s no point talking using

words that nobody can understand; 0:19:38 with the education [ɛʤəkɛːʃən] thing when I went to

university or even polytechnic then because I’m that old; 0:40:08 and whether that’s due due to education

[ɛʤəkɛːʃən] or just the fact that geographically people mo… are moving more often I don’t know; 0:49:12

there’s different levels of swearing (yeah) in in my book in that way that you can say, like, oh, like, “oh

fuck it” or, “you stupid twat” [sʧuːpɪd twaʔ] or whatever but it’s kind of never in that aggressive way)

ELISION

prepositions

frequent of reduction (e.g. 0:04:14 it’s a whole host of [ə] things that you can’t actually translate in a

sense; 0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually puts the aitches in the middle of [ə]

the words not not at the front of them [əv əm] so when you’re trying to be posh you put an aitch at the

front of [ə] the word but Sarah puts it in the middle; 0:31:02 to a degree it’s not as bad as what it was

years ago because there is, you know, s… a lot of [ə] people that are going to university that still continue

with their accent; 0:32:18 and I’m never quite sure what an accent is and what a dialect is but I always

think people who use a lot of [ə] dialect words generally do sound very stupid and very thick; 0:38:50 the

rough parts in Sheffield (oh I never go to the rough parts) is uh the city centre, yeah, because there’s such

a mixed multicultural (yeah) with the universities but I still think the outskirts the rough areas of [ə]

Sheffield have still got that broad accent; 0:41:34 I thi… I think it’s demise of [ə] buying uh boiled sweets

by the quarter I mean uh we always used to call them ‘spice’ (yeah) (yeah) “I’m go… I’m going for a

quarter of [ə] spice” (yeah, yeah); 0:42:55 if the it’s something I think, “wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or,

“excellent wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of [ə] people used to say I use

‘awesome’ a lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting; 0:46:17 never met the chap spoke to him a couple of [ə]

times on the phone had good rapport with him but never met him and we were just tak… and then he just

suddenly effed it into the conversation and then and it just completely changed my perception of [ə] my

relationship with this bloke; 0:46:44 it was almost like a putting down of [ə] the barriers or he was feeling

to see how far he could go and it’s the same with me; 0:49:12 there’s different levels of [ə] swearing

(yeah) in in my book in that way that you can say, like, oh, like, “oh fuck it” or, “you stupid twat” or

whatever but it’s kind of [kaɛndə] never in that aggressive way)

frequent with reduction (e.g. 0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different

conversations with [wɪ] different people if I’d spea... be saying it to my mother I’d say, “are you unwell

are you poorly?” but if I were saying it to my boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’; 0:06:47 I can listen to

people with [wɪ] Yorkshire accents and I’ll know whether they’re from South Yorkshire or North Yorkshire

or West Yorkshire; 0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with [wɪ] you it’s like a real conscious thing that,



like, Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where aitches shouldn’t be

because you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:33:05 sometimes sometimes I’d be saying “oh, I’ve

had a right bad night” you know and I go, “oh my God I mean a bad night” […] do you know what I

mean it’s it’s easier to say ‘night’ (yeah) than it is to say ‘night’ (yeah) you use less muscles with [wɪ]

‘night’; 0:36:44 if they do something about the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for instance and they want some

comment about say um Chillida’s4 work why the frigging hell do you go and talk to somebody with [wi] a

flat cap and a whippet; 0:46:44 it was almost like a putting down of the barriers or he was feeling to see

how far he could go and it’s the same with [wɪ] me; 0:47:27 you can tell with [wɪ] people’s faces if I swore

there’s like, “oh” you know, “I wouldn’t’ve thought you’d’ve spoke like that basically)

negation

secondary contraction (0:05:32 (would you use ‘punched’?) no (never use the word?) no, not really, no,

that’s quite aggressive, isn’t it, [ɪnɪʔ] ‘punched’; 0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is,

like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t [dɪnʔ] know what that

were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’

[…] yeah, when we was at the shop for liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?

[bɪzaːɹ ɪntɪʔ]; 0:49:31 I once heard my dad say, “fuck it” and I were absolutely mortified absolutely

mortified my mother still doesn’t [dʊnʔ] swear in front of me whether she swears or not)

simplification

word final consonant cluster reduction (0:04:01 somebody once asked [ast] me and I tried to ex… to

ex… uh to describe what it meant and it was really difficult; 0:05:32 (would you use ‘punched’?) no

(never use the word?) no, not really, no, that’s quite aggressive, isn’t it, [ɪnɪʔ] ‘punched’; 0:13:24

‘clothes’ [klɔːz] would be ‘clothes’ [klʊəz] ‘trousers’ would be ‘trousers’ and ‘PE’ uh ‘shoes’ would be

‘pumps’; 0:13:06 the word that I would use when I grew up I wouldn’t that wouldn’t come into my

vocabulary now in that way that why would I want to [wɒnə] cha… talk about children’s small shoes;

0:23:00 it’s not conscious decision it’s just that the way it reflects [ɹɪflɛks] in a sense my background;

0:35:12 you know if somebody speaks really northern Barnsley dialects [daiəlɛks] then I just think, “oh

thick shit” basically but you you can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think like that; 0:46:44 it was almost

[ɔːməs] like a putting down of the barriers or he was feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the same

with me)

word medial consonant cluster reduction (0:42:55 if the it’s something I think, “wow” I’ll say,

“awesome” or, “excellent wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of people used to say I

use ‘awesome’ a lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting [tɛksɪn])

syllable deletion (0:01:46 ’cause normally [nɔːmlɪ] when I am unwell it’s because I am very tired uh

’cause uh my um rather unusual life so but it’s usually when I’m I’m very feeling very low that um that I

feel very very ‘knackered’; 0:04:01 somebody [sʊmdɪ] once asked me and I tried to ex… to ex… uh to

describe what it meant and it was really difficult; 0:24:25 yeah, ’cause if I were excited or, you know,

happy and I were speaking to my family [famlɪ] then it would come out in a completely different way,

yeah; 0:28:53 (with that day when we went to Manchester Sarah slipped up and went, “forty” rather than,

“forty”) but I think it depends who what company [kʊmpni] you’re in if they speak like that but I am not

thinking before I speak though; 0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially [spɛʃlɪ] with you it’s like a real

conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where

aitches shouldn’t be because you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:35:12 you know if somebody

[sʊmbdɪ] speaks really northern Barnsley dialects then I just think, “oh thick shit” basically but you you

can’t just assume that it’s wrong to think like that; 0:36:26 you hear somebody [sʊmdi] on TV and they

always seem to pick on (they always seem to pick the thickest person) the most northernest person you



could ever imagine; 0:48:56 you see young mothers or young families [famlɪz] walking past and they’ll

scr… be screaming hysterically at a child, “fucking get over here you silly little twat”)

definite article reduction (0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually puts the aitches

in the middle of the words not not at the front of them so when you’re trying to be posh you put an aitch at

the front of the word but Sarah puts it in the middle [ɪnʔ mɪd ]; 0:33:37 if I said to someone I were

working with, you know like, professionally, “I’m off to the shop” [am ɒf təʔ ʃɒp] you sound a bit thick;

0:37:13 nobody’s talked like that since turn of the century [sɪns təːn əʔ sɛnʧəɾɪ] not even in Castleford;

0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got any

Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’) yeah,

that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at the shop [əʔ ʃɒp] for liquorice

we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?; 0:41:49 but would you say you were going to the

‘sweet shop’ [təʔ swiːʔ ʃɒp] or going to the ‘spice shop’? [təʔ spais ʃɒp] (going to the spice shop [təʔ spais

ʃɒp] “off to the spice sho… [ɒf təʔ spais ʃɒ] off to the spice shop” [ɒf təʔ spais ʃɒp] […]) see we always

used to say going to the sweet shop [təʔ swiːʔ ʃɒp] but we always used to ask go ask for spice)

L-deletion (0:34:35 well hopefully I was going to say ‘touch wood’ but we’ve only [ɒnɪ] got glass and I

thought, “that’ll have to do”; 0:40:37 I mean even though it were eight miles away from Barnsley (yeah)

where I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, [ɔːɹaɛʔ] cocker?” (no, be to ‘love’ that I’ve

heard, “tara, love” yeah) (no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that) no, it’s the we we al… we always

had um, “see you later, cocker” “are you all right, [ɔːɹaiʔ] cocker?” (oh right, no, we never got that we

never had that even as kids it were always [ɔːwɪz] ‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield

ways it were always [ɔːwɪz] ‘duck’ so but no never had that); 0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always

[ɔːwɪz] say the F-word at least once but I purposefully do it I purposely say it to s… read the reaction of

people round the and then once I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK

to actually swear any more or not; 0:46:44 it was almost [ɔːməs] like a putting down of the barriers or he

was feeling to see how far he could go and it’s the same with me; 0:50:06 I mean we only [ɒnɪ] saw him

once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that

in front of my mum my mum would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

TH-deletion with them (0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually puts the aitches in

the middle of the words not not at the front of them [əm] so when you’re trying to be posh you put an aitch

at the front of the word but Sarah puts it in the middle)

V-deletion (0:07:39 (yeah, my dad used to use ‘belt’) yeah (yeah, “I’ll belt you”) yeah, he used to, like,

“give me [gɪmi] a right belt”; 0:47:27 you can tell with people’s faces if I swore there’s like, “oh” you

know, “I wouldn’t’ve [wʊdn tə] thought you’d’ve [jədə] spoke like that basically; 0:50:06 I mean we only

saw him once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve

[wʊdə] said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve [wʊdəv] washed us mouth out with soap)

LIAISON

frequent linking R (e.g. 0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different conversations

with different people if I’d spea... be saying it to my mother I’d say, [mʊðəɹ ad sɛː] “are you unwell are

you poorly?” but if I were saying it to my boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’; 0:06:47 I can listen to people

with Yorkshire accents [jɔːkʃəɹ aksənts] and I’ll know whether they’re from South Yorkshire or North

Yorkshire or West Yorkshire [nɔːθ jɔːkʃəɹ ɔː wɛst jɔːkʃə]; 0:09:42 ‘left hand’ I think they used to say

‘cacky hand’ I’m not sure I’m sure [ʃʊəɹ am ʃʊə] we used to say ‘cacky hand’ (no, what do you say

though) yeah, but that’s what we used to say at school but I can’t remember I [ɹɪmɛmbəɹ a] think it were

‘cacky hand’; 0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have



you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say

‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at the shop for

liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish [fəɾ ə baːɾ ə spanɪʃ] bizarre, isn’t it? [bɪzaːɹ ɪntɪʔ];

0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say the F-word at least once but I purposefully do it I purposely

say it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then once I’ve gotten the mood of the moo… the

room I know then whether it’s [wɛðəɾ ɪts] OK to actually swear any more or not [swɛːɹ ɛnɪ mɔːɹ ɔː nɒʔ];

0:48:56 you see young mothers or young families walking past and they’ll scr… be screaming hysterically

at a child, “fucking get over here [ɒvəɹ ɪə] you silly little twat”; 0:49:31 I once heard my dad say, “fuck

it” and I were absolutely mortified [wəɹ absəluːʔlɪ mɔːtɪfaid] absolutely mortified my mother still doesn’t

swear in front of me whether she swears or not)

intrusive R (0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different conversations with different

people if I’d spea... be saying it to my mother I’d say, “are you unwell [a jəɾ ʊmwɛ ] are you poorly?” but

if I were saying it to my boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’)

zero intrusive R (0:06:47 I can listen to people with Yorkshire accents and I’ll know whether they’re from

South Yorkshire or [saʊθ jɔːkʃə ɔː] North Yorkshire or West Yorkshire; 0:50:06 I mean we only saw him

[sɔː ɪm] once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve

said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

+/- VOICE

Yorkshire assimilation (0:04:01 somebody once asked me and I tried to [tɹait tu] ex… to ex… uh to

describe what it meant and it was really difficult)

WEAK-STRONG CONTRAST

vowel strengthening word final vowel strengthening (0:03:02 it’s much more important sort of in a more formal setting that

the language is very tightly controlled [kɒntɹɔʊ d] because you need to be very clear in what’s being said;

0:07:17 say from Kendray Wombwell Cawthorne (yeah, oh yeah, def..., yeah) (yeah, yeah) even just areas

on the outskirts of Barnsley it completely [kɒmpliːʔli] changes completely [kɒmpliːʔli] changes, yeah;

0:11:22 you’ve got it completely [kɒmpliːʔlɪ] wrong, Roy, you’re you’re not getting the subtle uh subtle

sarcasm, are you; 0:24:25 yeah, ’cause if I were excited or, you know, happy and I were speaking to my

family then it would come out in a completely [kɒmpliːʔlɪ] different way, yeah; 0:31:02 to a degree it’s not

as bad as what it was years ago because there is, you know, s… a lot of people that are going to university

that still continue [kɒntɪnjʊuː] with their accent)

DURATION

lengthened consonant (0:28:53 with that day when we went to Manchester Sarah slipped up and went,

“forty” [fɒtːɪ] rather than, “forty” [fɔːtɪ] (but I think it depends who what company you’re in if they

speak like that but I am not thinking before I speak though))

LEXICALLY SPECIFIC VARIATION

again (0:18:57 we actually found as we came north we became more northern our accents changed and as

we went back they changed back again [əgɛɪn])



because (0:01:46 ’cause [kəs] normally when I am unwell it’s because [bɪkəs] I am very tired uh ’cause

[kəs] uh my um rather unusual life so but it’s usually when I’m I’m very feeling very low that um that I

feel very very ‘knackered’; 0:09:31 ‘moody’ could be ‘maungy’ depending but I wouldn’t associate the

word ‘maungy’ with ‘moody’ because [bɪkʊs] it’s more than just ‘moody’; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s

’cause [kɒs] (female thing) as as a child as well that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, [kɒs]

like, my my dad’s mum died as, like, the year I were born; 0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you

it’s like a real conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front

of the where aitches shouldn’t be because [bɪkɒs] you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:31:02 to a

degree it’s not as bad as what it was years ago because [bɪkəz] there is, you know, s… a lot of people that

are going to university that still continue with their accent; 0:38:50 the rough parts in Sheffield (oh I never

go to the rough parts) is uh the city centre, yeah, because [bɪkɒs] there’s such a mixed multicultural

(yeah) with the universities but I still think the outskirts the rough areas of Sheffield have still got that

broad accent)

often (0:11:12 I know we’ve we’ve all often [ɒftən] done it in that way that you’ve seen someone really

ugly and you’ve said, “she’s worth one”; 0:27:15 you often [jɒftən] say ‘thingy’ (oh, I’ve picked that one

up from you); 0:40:08 and whether that’s due due to education or just the fact that geographically people

mo… are moving more often [ɒftən] I don’t know; 0:44:33 I don’t use it offensively that often [ɒftən] but

when I do use it offensively I say it and I really mean it)

GRAMMAR

DETERMINERS

definite article reduction (0:29:27 what I find interesting about Sarah is that she actually puts the aitches

in the middle of the words not not at the front of them so when you’re trying to be posh you put an aitch at

the front of the word but Sarah puts it in t’ middle; 0:33:37 if I said to someone I were working with, you

know like, professionally, “I’m off to t’ shop” you sound a bit thick; 0:37:13 nobody’s talked like that

since turn of t’ century not even in Castleford; 0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is,

like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […]

it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah,

when we was at t’ shop for liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?; 0:41:49 but

would you say you were going to t’ ‘sweet shop’ or going to t’ ‘spice shop’? (going to t’ spice shop “off to

t’ spice sho… off to t’ spice shop” […]) see we always used to say going to t’ sweet shop but we always

used to ask go ask for spice)

zero definite article (0:37:13 nobody’s talked like that since _ turn of t’ century not even in Castleford;

0:41:34 I thi… I think it’s _ demise of buying uh boiled sweets by the quarter I mean uh we always used to

call them ‘spice’ (yeah) (yeah) “I’m go… I’m going for a quarter of spice” (yeah, yeah))

PRONOUNS

2nd p thou (0:22:06 you know I mean it’s like now sometimes I’ll be saying I’ll drop back and Dave’ll

say, “who the fucking hell’s thou think thou are?” you know um because I’ll be using a posh word or a

word we wouldn’t normally use in general banter)

frequent possessive me (e.g. 0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different

conversations with different people if I’d spea... be saying it to me mother I’d say, “are you unwell are

you poorly?” but if I were saying it to me boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’; 0:07:39 yeah, me dad used to



use ‘belt’ (yeah) yeah, “I’ll belt you” (yeah, he used to, like, “gie me a right belt”); 0:24:25 yeah, ’cause

if I were excited or, you know, happy and I were speaking to me family then it would come out in a

completely different way, yeah; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as well

that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, me me dad’s mum died as, like, the year I were

born; 0:30:21 I find it quite difficult to do it but I’m also incredibly embarrassed about me accent as well;

0:44:17 I love the C-word and I use it a lot if I’m with me friends; 0:49:31 I once heard me dad say, “fuck

it” and I were absolutely mortified absolutely mortified me mother still doesn’t swear in front of me

whether she swears or not)

possessive us (0:43:24 it’s de… definitely dependent on ev… on ev… on all us moods; 0:50:06 I mean we

only saw him once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I

would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve washed us mouth out with soap)

VERBS

past

generalisation of simple past (0:47:27 you can tell with people’s faces if I swore there’s like, “oh” you

know, “I wouldn’t’ve thought you’d’ve spoke like that basically)

be – was generalisation (0:41:08 (well we’d say ‘Spanish’) (‘Spanish’?) (which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we

say, “have you got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d

say ‘Spanish’) yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at t’ shop

for liquorice we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?)

be – frequent were generalisation (e.g. 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as

well that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, me me dad’s mum died as, like, the year I

were born; 0:26:33 and Lynne always called her grandparents ‘nannan’ (yeah) and it were, you know,

‘Nannan Swaithe’ or ‘Nannan Whatever’ but I I never did but my mum always said, “oh, your nannan’s

this” or “you can go an fetch your nannan” but I always called her ‘grandma’; 0:33:37 if I said to

someone I were working with, you know like, professionally, “I’m off to t’ shop” you sound a bit thick;

0:40:37 I mean even though it were eight miles away from Barnsley (yeah) where I were born everyone

used to say “are you all right, cocker?” (no, be to ‘love’ that I’ve heard, “tara, love” yeah) (no, I’ve

never I’ve never come across that) no, it’s the we we al… we always had um, “see you later, cocker” “are

you all right, cocker?” (oh right, no, we never got that we never had that even as kids it were always

‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield ways it were always ‘duck’ so but no never had

that); 0:41:08 well we’d say ‘Spanish’ (‘Spanish’?) which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you got

any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’

(yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at t’ shop for liquorice

we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?); 0:49:31 I once heard me dad say, “fuck it” and I

were absolutely mortified absolutely mortified me mother still doesn’t swear in front of me whether she

swears or not)

alternative past (0:45:55 when I go to meetings I always say the F-word at least once but I purposefully

do it I purposely say it to s… read the reaction of people round the and then once I’ve gotten the mood of

the moo… the room I know then whether it’s OK to actually swear any more or not)

compounds

double conditional (0:50:06 I mean we only saw him once a week anyway so it was quite but we ne… that

needn’t mean to say I mean f… if I would’ve said that in front of my mum my mum would’ve washed us

mouth out with soap)

simple past with progressive meaning (0:20:14 there’s no point speaking to someone from another part

of the country and they’re kind of stood there looking saying, “what you talking about I can’t understand

what you’re saying”)



progressive with stative (0:01:15 like I said before it’s the difference be having different conversations

with different people if I’d spea... be saying it to me mother I’d say, “are you unwell are you poorly?” but

if I were saying it to me boss I’d say ‘sick’ not ‘poorly’; 0:35:03 even though we associate just because of

the accent that they’re not educated I I don’t think you should be doing that really)

zero auxiliary be (0:20:14 there’s no point speaking to someone from another part of the country and

they’re kind of stood there looking saying, “what _ you talking about I can’t understand what you’re

saying”)

invariant there is (0:31:02 to a degree it’s not as bad as what it was years ago because there is, you

know, s… a lot of people that are going to university that still continue with their accent; 0:49:12 there’s

different levels of swearing (yeah) in in my book in that way that you can say, like, oh, like, “oh fuck it”

or, “you stupid twat” or whatever but it’s kind of never in that aggressive way)

bare infinitive (0:41:49 but would you say you were going to t’ ‘sweet shop’ or going to t’ ‘spice shop’?

(going to t’ spice shop “off to t’ spice sho… off to t’ spice shop” […]) see we always used to say going to

t’ sweet shop but we always used to ask go _ ask for spice)

full verb have (0:36:57 they want that association the media people and it’s, like, we’ve too many

professional Yorkshire people on the television)

NEGATION

auxiliary contraction (0:11:22 you’ve got it completely wrong, Roy, you’re you’re not getting the subtle

uh subtle sarcasm, are you; 0:28:37 but I’ve not got a problem with it; 0:42:55 if the it’s something I think,

“wow” I’ll say, “awesome” or, “excellent wicked” um that’s it really I’ve not really got I th… a lot of

people used to say I use ‘awesome’ a lot and ‘excellent’ if I’m texting)

zero contraction with interrogative (0:11:54 or a very old phrase would be, “oh, she’s caught on” (I’ve

never heard that one) have you not? (no) oh, you’ll hear it a lot now)

ADJECTIVES

double superlative (0:36:26 you hear somebody on TV and they always seem to pick on (they always

seem to pick the thickest person) the most northernest person you could ever imagine)

less [= fewer] (0:33:05 sometimes sometimes I’d be saying “oh, I’ve had a right bad night” you know and

I go, “oh my God I mean a bad night” […] do you know what I mean it’s it’s easier to say ‘night’ (yeah)

than it is to say ‘night’ (yeah) you use less muscles with ‘night’)

ADVERBS

emphatic that [= so] (0:19:38 with the education thing when I went to university or even polytechnic then

because I’m that old)

unmarked manner adverb (0:23:48 we’re working in both, you know, a foot in both camps if you like

that we can able we’re able to switch fairly easy and fairly unconsciously from one to the other)

unmarked degree modifier adverb (0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real

conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where

aitches shouldn’t be because you’re thinking about what you’re saying)

DISCOURSE

frequent utterance internal like (e.g. 0:12:05 but I know, like, a lot of the old villages where I grew up

they always, “oh, she’s caught on”; 0:26:01 but I suppose that’s ’cause (female thing) as as a child as



well that I only had one I only had one grandma ’cause, like, me me dad’s mum died as, like, the year I

were born; 0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like, Roy’ll

back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where aitches shouldn’t be because

you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:30:26 if I’m having a conversation with, you know like,

someone work-related I’d be quite embarrassed about my common accent; 0:33:37 if I said to someone I

were working with, you know like, professionally, “I’m off to t’ shop” you sound a bit thick; 0:36:57 they

want that association the media people and it’s, like, we’ve too many professional Yorkshire people on the

television; 0:41:08 well we’d say ‘Spanish’ (‘Spanish’?) which is, like, ‘liquorice’ but we say, “have you

got any Spanish?” and even Anita didn’t know what that were […] it’s for ‘liquorice’ we’d say ‘Spanish’

(yeah, that’s right as kids we always called it ‘Spanish’ […] yeah, when we was at t’ shop for liquorice

we’d always ask for a bar of Spanish bizarre, isn’t it?))

intensifier real (0:29:05 sometimes it’s t… especially with you it’s like a real conscious thing that, like,

Roy’ll back me up on this one that it’ll she’ll put aitches in front of the where aitches shouldn’t be because

you’re thinking about what you’re saying; 0:34:56 when you listen to somebody with a real strong accent)

intensifier right (0:33:05 sometimes sometimes I’d be saying “oh, I’ve had a right bad night” you know

and I go, “oh my God I mean a bad night” […] do you know what I mean it’s it’s easier to say ‘night’

(yeah) than it is to say ‘night’ (yeah) you use less muscles with ‘night’)

quotative like (0:33:54 kind of taking it one step further, “I’m off out” (yeah) and it’s like, “what does

‘I’m off out’ mean?”; 0:47:27 you can tell with people’s faces if I swore there’s like, “oh” you know, “I

wouldn’t’ve thought you’d’ve spoke like that basically)

quotative go (0:28:53 with that day when we went to Manchester Sarah slipped up and went, “forty”

rather than, “forty” (but I think it depends who what company you’re in if they speak like that but I am

not thinking before I speak though); 0:33:05 sometimes sometimes I’d be saying “oh, I’ve had a right bad

night” you know and I go, “oh my God I mean a bad night” […] do you know what I mean it’s it’s easier

to say ‘night’ (yeah) than it is to say ‘night’ (yeah) you use less muscles with ‘night’)

emphatic tag (0:04:22 it is a very much a British a a Yorkshire word, (yeah) is maungy, I’ve never come

across it anywhere else but it is difficult to get across what you mean by that person wor… by that word)

form of address cocker (0:40:37 I mean even though it were eight miles away from Barnsley (yeah)

where I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?” (no, be to ‘love’ that I’ve heard,

“tara, love” yeah) (no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that) no, it’s the we we al… we always had um,

“see you later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?” (oh right, no, we never got that we never had that

even as kids it were always ‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield ways it were always

‘duck’ so but no never had that))

form of address duck (0:40:37 (I mean even though it were eight miles away from Barnsley) yeah (where

I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?”) (no, be to ‘love’ that I’ve heard, “tara,

love” yeah) no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that (no, it’s the we we al… we always had um, “see

you later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?”) oh right, no, we never got that we never had that even as

kids it were always ‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield ways it were always ‘duck’ so

but no never had that)

form of address love (0:40:37 (I mean even though it were eight miles away from Barnsley) (yeah)

(where I were born everyone used to say “are you all right, cocker?”) no, be to ‘love’ that I’ve heard,

“tara, love” yeah (no, I’ve never I’ve never come across that) (no, it’s the we we al… we always had um,

“see you later, cocker” “are you all right, cocker?”) )oh right, no, we never got that we never had that

even as kids it were always ‘love’ and if you were if you moved south to Sheffield ways it were always

‘duck’ so but no never had that))



otiose what (0:31:02 to a degree it’s not as bad as what it was years ago because there is, you know, s… a

lot of people that are going to university that still continue with their accent)

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