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Sound Recording, West Midlands

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A718r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, West Midlands

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A718r

Creator(s): Upton, Clive S

Site Location(s): Subject - Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom( 52.5855, -2.12296 )

Date(s): [Mid-1970s]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 39' 57".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414769

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tapes LAVC/SRE/A716r and LAVC/SRE/A717r]; talks about butchers' back slang (for animal names/meat cuts and other terms); explains its use, the contexts in which it would be used and the incorporation of some Cockney rhyming slang terms; back slang examples given for prices, beef cuts, money and amounts, lamb meat and cuts; [last five minutes inaudible due to dry tape squeal].


Brian Hartshorne continues with examples of back slang applied to people's titles (manager, boss, master). [A fragment only of Track Two is audible. Dry tape squeal prevents any further playback/listening.]


23 of 24.

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Reproduction

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec.

Related subjects / tags

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Back slang

Butchers

Culture

English Language - Dialects

Folklore

Food

Food Industry and Trade

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Great Britain

Languages

Meat

Meat industry and trade

Occupational folklore

Occupations

Oral Traditions

Rhyming slang

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