School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics

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School ofEnglish Literature, Language & Linguistics

The Talk of the Toon

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The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside EnglishMystery Words & ObjectsListen to the clips of people talking.Some of their words are missing.Can you work outwhat they are talking about?How did you work it out?See: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/toon/1The Talkof the Toon

Words and Objects

What are they talking about?Which of the pictured objects are the people talking about? (left click mouse to play audio and again to reveal answer)

and I like a game of you know. Not for money you know ... but Im good at playing .cardscards

Picture Credits: [1] Train Peter van Broekhoven (2006, CC BY-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvanb/222414265/[2] Playing Cards Philippa Willitts (2008, CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/hippie/2562630928/[3] Skipping Rope pistruiatu (2011, CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/pistruiatu/6217715959/[4] Doll dog.happy.art (2009, CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/4175208733/2The Talkof the Toon

Words and Objects

What are they talking about?Which of the pictured objects are the people talking about? (left click mouse to play audio and again to reveal answer)

And eh, we used to have, ehm, great big ,you know [...] And they all used to ... used ... about nine or twelve used to ... uh-huh, I mean there was no traffic, nothing like that you know.ropes, skippy ropesskip

Picture Credits: [1] Train Peter van Broekhoven (2006, CC BY-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvanb/222414265/[2] Playing Cards Philippa Willitts (2008, CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/hippie/2562630928/[3] Skipping Rope pistruiatu (2011, CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/pistruiatu/6217715959/[4] Doll dog.happy.art (2009, CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/4175208733/3The Talkof the Toon

Words and Objectsand my brother wanted the .Oh and there was quite a to-dobecause my brotherwanted the .dolldoll

What are they talking about?Which of the pictured objects are the people talking about? (left click mouse to play audio and again to reveal answer)

Picture Credits: [1] Train Peter van Broekhoven (2006, CC BY-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvanb/222414265/[2] Playing Cards Philippa Willitts (2008, CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/hippie/2562630928/[3] Skipping Rope pistruiatu (2011, CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/pistruiatu/6217715959/[4] Doll dog.happy.art (2009, CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/4175208733/4