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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A541r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A541r

Creator(s): Upton, Clive S

Date(s): [Mid-1970s]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 7' 11".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414592

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their staff, in which each word is pronounced exactly or approximately as if spelled backwards, so that customers cannot understand what is being said); gives the numbers one to twelve in back slang. Conclusion of an interview which starts on tapes LAVC/SRE/A539r and LAVC/SRE/A540r.


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