The Talk of the Toon Mystery Words & Objects 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? See: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/toon/ DECTE is funded by: The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

What are they talking about? 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 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/ cards

What are they talking about? 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 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/ skip

What are they talking about? 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-do because my brother wanted the . doll 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/ doll