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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A546r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A546r

Creator(s): Upton, Clive S

Site Location(s): Subject - Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.634, -1.69587 )

Date(s): [Mid-1970s]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 2' 55".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414597

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives the terms for pricing meat; talks about serving customers, and gives examples of butchers' 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); informant explains that back slang is not used by country butchers.


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