Scotland Fifteen - Text
The subject is a singing teacher living in London. She was born on the outskirts of Glasgow and moved to Glasgow in her teens.
- Monophthongisation and raised first element of FACE vowel
- Raising of LOT
- Glottal replacement of final and some medial /t/s
- Dentalisation of /d/ on ‘different’
- Fronted and unrounded GOOSE vowel
- Most /r/s and tapped, but approximant /r/ is sometimes used in word-initial position
- Weakening of TRAP-BATH contrast
- ‘My’ and ‘I’ are realised with a TRAP vowel in rapid speech
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
(Laughter) Okay, uh…My name’s Rachel Bennett and I’m from Hamilton, which is just outside Glasgow but I spent the latter, er, years of my, er, adolescence in Glasgow itself ‘cause I spent a lot of time living there and working there.
Um, so, er…more…the west end of Glasgow ‘cause I was fortunate enough to have quite a lot of artist friends (Laughs). So a bit ‘snobby-doo’ (Laughter) Er, but I’ve-I was actually born in an, in a barracks, in erm, because my dad was in the army when I was born, hmm?
And, um, I remember marching round the square going ‘fuck’ and ‘bloody’, ‘c-u-n-t’ and all sorts, copying all the soldiers that were swearing (Laughter). So I picked up the swearing quite early. Erm, and then just moved round quite a lot. As a kid, er. But- we spent the longest time in schools and living just in and around Glasgow. We moved a lot, we moved about once a year, so, my accent’s a bit odd. Trained at drama school, so it’s gone. (Laughter)
Interviewed by Marina Tyndall, 16th January 2008
Running time: 03:02