Language

• • Colloquial language
  • Scouse dialect
  • Chooses when she can speak posh

  "I can talk posh like some with an ’Olly in me mouth"
• • "'Tara'" + Working Class scouse Dialect
  • Juxtaposition of the different ways different classes speak


  ”Me say ‘Tara’ to me ‘Ma’ instead of ‘Bye Mummy dear’?”
• • "drop my unemployment card " Rhetorical question linking to working class prejudice of being out of work
  • "patio" + "yard" juxtapose each other highlighting the class difference of their language


  "Or did I drop my unemployment card sitting on your patio (We have a yard)?”
• • Rhyme of "toil" + "oil" with cacaphonic words to shine light on the topic
  • "soft lily-white" Descriptive adjective linking a stereotype of the upperclass to challenge stereotypes on them


  "hands are stained with toil?

  Instead of soft lily-white with perfume and oil?"
• • “head” or “bum” Acknowledging the way people “label” others


  "Have I a label on me head, and another on me bum?"