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School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics. The Talk of the Toon. 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?. DECTE is funded by:.
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School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics • The Talk of the Toon Mystery Words & Objects Listen 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? DECTE is funded by: • The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
The Talk of 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 I’m good at playing . cards cards
The Talk of 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 ropes skip
The Talk of 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 my brother wanted the.Oh and there was quite a to-dobecause my brotherwanted the . doll doll