2. School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics The Talk of the Toon DECTE is funded by: The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English Mystery Words & Objects Listen to the clips of people talking. Some of their words are missing. Can you work out what they are talking about? How did you work it out?

3. The TalkThe Talk of the Toonof the Toon Words and Objects... and we were getting fitted wor and eh we had to gan to school with wor on... gas masks 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)

4. The TalkThe Talk of the Toonof the Toon Words and Objects... some people older than me'll say “oh I'm going for my ”, and this is where it stems from, because you went on a Monday with your, and you got what you were supposed to get [...] And I mean, well the sweets were rationed, so you... you had for them. rations ration book coupons 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)

5. The TalkThe Talk of the Toonof the Toon Words and Objects... they were underground. And in the mines, you need and the miners from... from Newcastle used to use a specific type of. It was a safety actually, to detect gas. lights light 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)