just eh say that code number on on the tape just to eh (interruption) like (unclear)

the bottom one T L S G three two six

that's great ta ehm wey eh to start at the beginning could you tell us eh where you were born please

eh it was eh Woodbine Cottages at eh just past Ryton

yes and eh w where else have you lived since then you know how long did you stay there

eh well I was just born there and we moved to Tweedy's Buildings

yes

that's a place just wey just near Ryton you know

mm

then we moved from there to Clara Vale when I was about seven

yes

then I lived there till I got married like

aye

when I was twenty eight

mm

we've lived here about eh fourteen year I think now

yes came here when you got married like

mm-hm mm

eh what what brought you into Gateshead in fact was it eh

well it was handier for work you know well we got a house through here like and we were looking for a house round Gateshead like

aye

my wife's folks lived here you know

I see yeah eh how did the two places compare you know as places to live in like which did you like the best

well eh the cu the country's quieter like eh you know but eh it's eh it's handier for work here

yes

because I used to work in the country I was a market gardener like you know

oh I see yes

and eh I went in the army like and that and (pause) then came out (unclear) when I came out I just went went building and that like you know

yeah yeah

so I was used to the country then like

yes do you think eh the town's got very any particular advantages do you think over the country

well it has eh we're centralized you know for

aye yes

because eh the all the wife's relations is around here you know

yes mm-hm you can keep in touch better

oh uh-huh

mm-hm eh do you think are you fairly sort of attached to Gateshead now you know as a place (interruption) to live

I am now it's definitely improving you know all this

yes

the way they are rebuilding it and that

yes it's it's pretty good (unclear) do you think you would ever like live in Newcastle you know do you think Gateshead's a better place than Newcastle to live

well I suppose if you went there you would get used to it you know just I mean I didn't I didn't actually I didn't fancy living in Gateshead

aye

years ago you know I thought Gateshead's an awful place you know

(laughter)

when you saw the bottom (unclear) like you know of course they're all pulled down now

aye it's yes most of it anyway what about eh Tyneside compared with the rest of the country you know do you think you would ever move away from here or anything

not necessarily I think I like Tyneside now

yes yes

quite settled here anyway

mm

I don't move around the country like you know but eh just like for several days at a time for shows different parts of the country every year you know

yes do you eh do you think do you find Tynesiders are very different from people from other parts of the country you know

wey some some of the time you know it just depends (pause) it's eh hard to say (pause) it's the same anywhere in the world if you're if you're a stranger by yourself

aye

they are rather shy of you you know

yes aye some people say that you know Tyneside is much more friendly

they are I think it is a bit more friendly I think when you go away though and say you go for a drink or somewhere and they hear you speak

aye

they generally say something straight away hello where do you come from you know

aye

because there's there's thousands of them down there you know

(laughter) aye that's true yes eh whereabouts were your parents born were they born locally as well

eh just about eh Prudhoe way I believe

mm

I'm not sure mind

yes

they're both dead but eh (pause) I think my father was born I'm not sure if my father was born in eh Durham or eh Cumberland

aye

I think he is ex Cumberland like you know

mm and eh what was your father's occupation

miner

yes mm it's true of lots of people that you know sort of the people here

oh yes I was a miner I've been a miner myself just for about twelve month like

have you up up that way was it

ehm aye Bedlington

mm what was it like did you

well there's I can double up three ways you know (interruption) like I'm six foot odd you know

(laughter) yeah eh what eh (pause) what eh what sort of jobs have you done in your life you know can you tell us

eh well I was a market gardener

aye

for about four or five year then I was in the army about three year like then eh I came out and I went in the building trade

yes

and when I first came out the army like then I eh (pause) I went in the colliery then I was ill for a while like you know bad till I packed that in and I've been on this job now driving for about the last seventeen or eighteen year now

mm which which job did you like best

wey I like market gardening like

yes eh who do you drive for at the moment like

eh firm in Newcastle

yes

(unclear) optical manufacturers like you know

yes and do you drive around quite a bit

uh-huh well I've there's been a few I've had a few different jobs in the factory like you know

mm-hm

work on optical spectacles and that

mm

and eh we used to be optical manufacturers for all all kinds of glasswork like you know when I first started I was an inspector in eh projection television

aye

you know I used to work projectors for projecting television projecting television onto a screen like you know

mm

now they have television tubes and radiograms valves and all this sort of thing what we sell you know

yes aye is it eh a pretty good firm to work for

it's not bad you know I get on all right with the boss like you know well my boss anyway yeah

mm mm eh (pause) how old were you eh when you left school

fourteen

aye do you think you were glad to leave school at the time or not

ehh oh yeah I was then like you know

mm

course it was different to what it is now you know it was just like a primary school you know

yes mm do you do you think you know looking back on your education like do you think that it has been worth very much to you in your life since you left school

not the education I had oh if I'd had i i if I'd realized now if I knew now what I knew th if I had known then what I knew now I would have eh studied more you know gone s for a higher better education I think like you know

mm do you think it's eh fairly important you know well say for kids now like

mm-hm definitely

yes you would advise any kid to stay on at school

oh yes

mm

and get as as good an education as possible like you know

mm mm

haven't any children myself like

no ehm ehm in in eh in what ways do you think it's changed you know since you went to school

well it's eh you've got more opportunities now for for better education you know

mm-hm

I think so I think anyway you know

yeah (pause) do you think that ehm do you think they teach them eh useful useful stuff mostly like

oh yeah mm-hm the thing is at primary school you can't you can't at least at least when I was there you couldn't learn enough what you can learn (pause) you know to eh give yourself a proper trade you know you cannot not the eh (pause) the more eh advanced stuff like you know

aye yes it was just sort of fairly basic

mm-hm just basic stuff like you know

yeah that's true ehm (pause) eh whereabouts were you living when you were you know fairly young yourself like say when you were under twelve you know

I was at Clara Vale

yeah eh did you think it was a fairly good place to live from your point of view as a child

oh yes grand

you enjoyed your childhood (interruption) there in fact

mm-hm definitely

mm eh do you remember like any of the sort of games you used to play or things you used to get up to

oh well we used to be up on the golf courses and in the woods you know and by the river

yes

all that sort of thing

what about ehm like s did you have any street games you know I mean like well in towns especially they have lots of street games (unclear)

eh well we just used to play chasey around the streets you know but problem is it it was country anyway any whichever way you went

yes

there was only like five streets where I lived and couple of hundred yards over the other way and there was only three streets you know

yes mm

and that was it that was Clara Vale like

yes aye always think that you know country must be a very different sort of place for a kid like (interruption) from from what the town is

oh yeah

ehm (pause) these are just eh just a few questions about what words you might use for things (interruption) you know

mm-hm

eh firstly eh what do you call each of the rooms in this house you know what's your normal word for each room

eh we just call this the front room

yeah mm

and that's the just a kitchen we call it eh top one's a bedroom

yes

and there's a scullery

uh-huh and what about

you can call it a kitchenette I suppose the way I say (interruption) it it's scullery like you know

call it a scullery yes what about that space over there

that's just a passage

yes yes yes eh and eh you know to get to get out of the back door you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

the latch just the latch

yes mm-hm and eh

well it's a sneck kind of you know

sneck sometimes yes ehm (pause) and what do you call eh the thing you stand in front of the fire to get it going you know do you have a word for that

well bleezer

yes yes uh (laughter) eh (pause) eh could you tell us please just how you like to spend your spare time you know the sort of things you like to do

oh I just muck about in my yard I've got a shed built there you know I spend all down there

aye

making bits of things you know (pause) then I look after all the property like you know do all my own decorating and that

yes yes you've got it very nice by the way (interruption) you know

aye it's not bad there

mm-hm (pause) you've got your fish as well what sort are them down there

they're telescopic eyed (unclear) they were they're blind eh now

aye

aye they're old I thought I'd lost them but they're (laughter) they cannot see now you know you know because they have that bulge in their eyes they've getten them lost when they've been in the other tanks or through age I don't know but

oh I see yes

there's one still has one left but it they're completely blind like

aye are they aye (interruption)

so that's why I keep them separated I have a big tank but I'm just keeping them in the little one until I get the shed properly fixed up for them you know

oh I see yes aye are they (pause) fresh water fish or

mm-hm they're all fresh water fish

yes and you've got to yes but it's not eh what I meant was it's not heated like you don't have to (interruption) heat it

no oh I have tropical fish in the kitchen there

do you

I have about eh fifty or sixty in there like you know

aye grand what kinds

oh I've only got eh two kinds at the moment eh three kinds anyway guppies they're the main ones that I have

aye

and eh neon tetras

aye (interruption) oh they're nice them aren't they

and eh red cardinal

aye

I have other ones but at least I've had other ones but eh this last eighteen month I've never bothered I only had one or two other ones and eh I've gradually lost them but I've never bothered with them till I get sorted out you know if I get started on them properly again like you know

aye I see yes because they're fairly difficult to sort of keep and that aren't they

wey not they're not they're not too bad to keep like at least I've found them eh pretty easy I haven't lost I don't loss a l lot actually I've lost a few this last week or two but

aye yes

that's all

aye my friend keeps them you know he's I think he's had a canny bit trouble with them

mm I have some little ones there now about a dozen

aye

I just keep every now and again when I see them swimming I get as many as I can out like you know

uh-huh

and eh I have a little tank floating in the top you know

mm-hm ehm (pause) do you eh do you watch television very much you think you know I mean

oh quite regular at least eh aye quite regular

yes mm-hm

oh I like the television I like the films most of all like

aye is it mostly is the television mostly on you know say a all night you know

no generally just the weekend as a rule eh on a week eh we might watch a film of a night

aye

but eh

you just switch it on if you want to see (interruption) something (unclear)

mm-hm we don't switch it on and leave it I only switch it on when I want it

a lot of people do that you know it's just on all the time

oh no I don't like that

yes

of a weekend of a Saturday afternoon I maybe put it on about four o'clock

mm-hm

for the wrestling and we leave it on at about ten o'clock at night time you know

huh (laughter) yes

and maybes on a Sunday afternoon

aye

but through the week I very very rarely bother much unless there's a good film on

yes

otherwise I get myself (unclear) down the yard or something you know

yes eh do you think the standard of programmes is fairly good you know

well some of them are there's eh of course different s (pause) there's a lot of eh things that don't a appeal to me very much I don't care so much for the eh variety

yeah

and that you know and this pott singer I divn't care for that fellow I like to hear it sometime but as for watching it on television I don't care much for that you know

eh do you think that you know in the way of like recreation activities do you think there's any things that eh you'd like to have done but you've never had the chance to do or you've never got round to you know what I mean

well we have quite a bit of opportunity like but well just quite comfortable here you know we're not bothered really about going very far

you're really content with your life are you

we do go out occasionally we go up to the eh we have wor supper out on Saturday night sometimes like you know up to the eh Highwayman or

aye aye it's a canny pub

the other thing is we gan up to the eh is it the Falcon up Prudhoe way or something you know up there somewhere maybes a Saturday night or a Friday night

aye you've got no sort of like wild ambitions that you've never fulfilled

not really no not really very ambitious I don't think

(laughter) mm eh

actually it's a bit late for us to think of eh ambitions now you know if I knew if I knew if I knew lo lon long years ago what I know now I would have eh

aye

probably had some different ideas you know but you unless you have somebody behind you to advise you and push you a bit I think you know you're just apt to let things slide I think

what do you think ehm what do you think would happen if you sort of won a large amount of money tomorrow you know if you won the pools or something

probably gan daft (laughter)

yes

well my wife my wife's working so she would retire straight away I think you know

mm-hm (pause) so you think it would sort of change your way of life very much you know I mean do you think there's many things you would do that you don't do now like

eh there is I think there is quite a few things I would change like you know (pause) I'd probably gan in for a lot of these (unclear) (laughter) you know (unclear)

yes

course we've never had a lot of money so eh we don't really know what if we had it we would be g we would probably just get worselves worked into it you know

yes well a lot a lot of people say that eh although they would like it it wouldn't really it wouldn't change their habits very much you know they would still more or less (interruption) do the same things

well it's hard to say though

it's true n no one ever really knows

I wouldn't like to eh (laughter) I wouldn't like to say what I would do (laughter)

(laughter) mm now these are just eh a few questions about your opinions on eh some ordinary matters

mm-hm

eh what do you think that eh parents should do when their children misbehave you know how do you think they should control them

how do you think they should control them or

mm-hm

wey I don't know I haven't got any children myself you know (unclear) I could eh give my opinion at times though when eh when some of them it just depends there's a lot of them are badly behaved

aye

they seem to be more cheekier now than what they were years ago it seems to be the way I don't know

do you think the eh discipline in schools is particularly you know at fault like you know

I don't know whether it's the f (unclear) of course I think now you know I think television will have a lot to do with it

mm-hm yeah

and eh there's bingo and that now

that's true yes

you know the because you often see I seen a good programme on television about you know something I fancy and of course we sit there and we're watching it

yes

and I might slip down the yard for coal or something like that

aye

hear the kids playing in the street they're not interested in it whatever we are you see and I think they let them get left on their own may be a lot

aye that's yeah (unclear)

that's how they get a bit headstrong

headstrong yes

they're not getting enough ten attention

yes

to what they (pause) used to

aye it's true what do you think about ehm you know a young person of say sixteen do you think they should be more or less allowed to do as they want or not

well I'm not saying they should be allowed to do as they want like (pause) but then again that's (pause) it depe a lot depends on their family for the way they act I think and all you know

mm-hm yeah yeah

some of them are spoiled some of them aren't and

mm-hm do you think their parents should sort of well say control the time they come in at nights and things like that

well eh oh yes I still think they should do that about them anyway because you can get up to some funny things nowadays

mm

it's rather eh (pause) eh easy society easy going society you know now it's I'm getting a bit beyond that

(laughter)

that eh (pause) (unclear) because I divn't know how they feel now you see that they divn't feel that it's not the same now as what it was twenty year ago or thirty year ago you know when I was a teenager

yes (pause) eh going on to something different like and this is eh a question you don't have to answer if you don't like because some people don't eh which way do you vote

Labour

aye have you always voted the same way

mm-hm

yes ehm why do you think it is you know that you always vote the same way

well I think it's a working man's eh (pause) to the working man's advantage you know

yes

that's always been my opinion anyway I I d I'm not eh I'm not very well up on politics you know

yeah

I follow it a bit like but just

yeah yeah

the rudiments of it you know

do you think that the eh do you think the Labour party's you know done a reasonable amount for the working man you know I mean the last Labour government for instance is it doing all right

well I think they do better than than than the Conservative anyway for for the working man

mm-hm yeah yeah ehm do you usually eh you know vote in every election like in you know local government

no it's generally just in the eh as a rule it's just in the eh (pause) in the general election you know I do vote sometimes in it but there's many a time I'm not here you know

(unclear) yes

certain times of year I'm away maybes two or three days you know

mm

and eh I think there's only the last one I didn't vote and I was at home and eh the other ones I've generally been away you know travelling

yes

generally generally vote on a Thursday I'd generally be away on the third Wednesday or Thursday and come back on the Friday and that's that's (unclear)

it's such a foregone conclusion in Gateshead isn't it

it is like but eh course if everybody le eh stopped away it would

yes I think that's what happened (interruption) in the last general election wasn't it

it'll change there was I think there's too many eh stayed away

what do you think about the eh you know the present government like do you think they're

I don't know I think they've got themselves in a bit of a hole

aye

I don't like eh (pause) the boss man like very much (laughter)

(laughter) not many people do

but eh

what about entry into Europe do you think do you think we should go into Europe or not

well I think it'll be good for the future it might and I mean it eh it mightn't be so good at the moment you know

aye

probably be different but I think it'll be advantage

yes

advantageous to us in the future really you know

yes that's maybe true yeah

that's at least I I just think that it would be to our advantage to be eh in latter years you know

yes eh if we could just eh go on to talk for a bit about the thing we are most interested in you know that's the way you talk and that

mm-hm

eh firstly do you think that you ever change the way you speak according to like the person you're talking to or circumstances

oh yes often

yes

yeah

what what eh like what sort of changes do you think you make

well years you see trying to talk a bit posher you know

yes ehm who would you have to be talking to you know to to talk a bit posher like

well when I g I gan round the different shops and this sort of thing you know and eh (pause) if I'm talking to the engineers or this sort of thing television shops and that you know that's all right like but if I'm talking to the boss or something you know

aye

trying to talk a bit better you know

yes

when I'm at the boss's house or any of the boss's houses you know well I try to talk a bit so they can understand because there's some of them who are eh

(laughter) yes what eh

different eh nationality as well you know and eh I try to talk as (pause) clearly as good English as possible like you know

aye mm-hm what eh how would you say you were talking now you know what I mean is this

it's a bit of a mixture (laughter)

aye do you have do you think you are sort of more localized than this you know broader than this

oh aye I can be broader than this ehm

yes is this eh do you think this this is perhaps well the way you talk to you know your family for instance

ehm (pause) aye about that

yes

course when you get along among the lads you know you just let everything gan and eh it's all wey aye and wey no (laughter)

(laughter) mm

where you ganning and what have you

I think ev everybody does this you know I think everybody changes their voice

does practically everybody does it

other people deny it you know a lot of people don't seem to be aware of it like you know

oh no I know I change it eh

aye

because there's a lot of people that's especially if they're say from the south and I mean there's there's a lot of the people from all over the country come up here

yes

and if you can generally tell as soon as they they talk to you

yes

so you try to make it so they can understand you know

mm-hm yeah yeah eh do you think on on a fairly sort of long term basis you know you've always talked the same all during your life

more or less yeah

yes mm ehm (pause) would you say that you like to hear people talking in local accents you know Tyneside accent

well there's times it doesn't sound very nice

aye

you know there's it's eh (pause) if you're one of these you know when they've eh been on the television there Tyne Tees

aye

for the news and they're talking Geordie and it sounds funny you know

aye mm

and that's how that's how makes you think how difficult it I can be for people that aren't eh used to that

aye the these are like ehm announcers and that

that's slang you know really

aye yes yes mm

when they get Michael what's Mike Mike Neville and the other chap

George House yes they're quite funny eh do you do you ever think that you know ehm if you meet somebody for the first time and you hear him talking and he talks more or less like you you know

mm

do you feel that you're more likely to get on with him you know

eh (pause) well could do like eh I divn't think it really makes much difference

no

actually w whichever way talk you more or less change your voice to talk or try to talk eh the same way as them you know

yes

if they're not talking broad Tyneside well you try and s in case they divn't understand you you know

yes yes eh do you think you would ehm you know if if well you haven't got any children but if you like if there was a nephew or something like that do you think if if you heard them talking in a very localized sort of eh voice do you think you would correct them about it

no I don't think so na

no yeah if they said (interruption)

I have one nephew and eh he's a really broad Tynesider you know

yes

and he has a deep voice

yes

he's about eh he's just started school the other week but

yes

he gans to the country with his father and his father says (unclear) he got stuck in the stream or something he says hey da howay geris oot (laughter)

(laughter) yes

but he's now he's down south in eh Cornwall like you know last year

aye

aye howay da howay geris oot

(laughter)

he's fallen in the stream or something

(laughter) yeah yeah it's eh it's a bit strange that because most people say that I think most people you know even if they talk very broad themselves correct their children about it like it's like smoking you know even if you smoke yourself (interruption) (unclear)

I probably would eh correct I probably would correct them if eh if I had them children of my own like you know

aye yes

but when they get out with their friends like you know it comes straight back to them

that's right

but I suppose it will get into their mind about it like you know like

yes you know eh you know the way the newsreaders talk on television like you know sort of Robert Dougal or somebody like that you know

mm-hm

eh do you think that's a particularly good way to speak you know do you do you like that sort of (pause) accent

eh (pause) I'm not sure about Robert Dougal eh say Michael Aspell

mm

I I rather like the way they speak a a lot of the commentators anyway you know

yes

I think it's it's eh how you can understand everything they say

aye yes do you think ehm do you think it would be a good idea if everybody talked like that

probably would be

aye you don't think you would like miss you know I mean the eh

yes you would miss the eh but eh of course on television it you know you hear them like the Scottish brogue you know

yeah

or eh say like the Liverpool it is pretty broad as well like isn't it (pause) aye you probably would miss it if eh

aye I suppose you would yeah

I've never really thought about it

(laughter) yes it's just that eh you know I mean lots of people think that that way of talking is very you know very correct and and and proper and this sort of thing you know what I mean I think they feel as if everybody ought to talk like that eh this might strike you as a rather vague sort of question but eh what sort of things do you think you can tell about somebody from the way he talks you know just from sort of listening to his pronunciation and that

eh (pause) wey you can get a few ideas about them like you know uh from the way they talk I suppose (pause) it just depends depends on eh their tone of voice and that you know

that's true yes

and eh and if it's (pause) eh you know you hear some of these (pause) they they they seem to talk so posh you know it sounds silly

mm-hm

it sounds a bit silly sometimes you know but

yes what what do you think you would think about somebody who talked like that you know if you actually meet somebody who talks very posh what sort of things do you think about them

well you think stuck up like you know

aye yes do you think do you think you would do you think you would assume that he was fairly upper class you know I mean or something about the sort of job (interruption) (unclear)

eh more or less you could think that eh because I think it is that type that really that have that very high toned eh type of speech you know

yes do you think do you think you would be able to tell the difference between like a Tynesider who worked in a factory and a Tynesider who worked in an office you know

well eh as a rule you can with women

yes

I think you know but eh well yeah maybe men and all but it's eh (pause) you can really it just depends o on their job actually if they're if they do a lot of like interviewing or (pause) I think there there is a bit difference I think

yes I think I would be willing to guess mm what sort of accent would you say I've got you know from listening to us now

well now it just eh seems pretty good English like you know

yes yeah would you say I came from Tyneside

eh you might do it's hard to say

yeah (laughter) (unclear) you wouldn't yeah it's it's not obvious to you

eh not really obvious I hadn't taken particular notice like but eh (pause) you could be from Tyneside you know I'm not sure

yes strikes me as funny when people say that because I am like you know I am I've lived in Gateshead all my life

mm-hm you haven't eh you haven't like a London accent or a Liverpool accent anyway so you could be from here just you're you're quite well spoken you know nice eh

yeah do do you think I'm sort of less localized than you you know

possibly like course it's just a comparance really you you come over with a lot of eh like Geordie a bit you know but it just am and (laughter) (unclear) well aye you said aye that sort of thing you know

yes perhaps after I've asked the question you start to sort of you know make a different opinion

yes you said (unclear) that's the only way you can really tell you know

aye ehm (pause) can you just eh read that list of words for us please straight down

right just in good English or

just ordinary you know what I mean

find mind fly bill well men head back farm wall daughter down take straight cold alone poor fire four tower path after earth year me field been new moon school revolution but none seven one long holiday room book good maker wafer happy Harry Mary yes better something fall which apple television absent realize Newcastle Seahouses method concert descend chocolate explain industry condemn tissue with film

ta eh now ehm I'm going to read out lists of words and for each one I would just like to know eh firstly if you familiar with it you know

mm-hm

and secondly if you use it yourself like they're all sort of Tyneside word eh aside for beside

aside aye

would you say it's just aside the fire

oh yes or just aside here

eh bairn

yes

bait

bait aye

aye eh bonny

yes I use that and all

eh bray

pardon

bray bray

bray

aye

not really much because I'm thinking about donkeys you know really

(laughter) not for 'to hit something' like

no

eh bullets

oh but I have used it bray mind you know I actually it eh slipped my mind there when I was thinking the first thing that came into my mind there was a donkey braying

aye

but when you bray somebody aye

aye eh bullets

oh yeah (unclear)

eh clamming

oh aye I say clamming I'm clamming when I'm hungry

eh boody

eh very rarely

mm

I hardly ever use that I know somebody down the road they often use it for the little eh (pause) lassies that come into the shop hello boody (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter) aye cree

occasionally mostly (unclear)

fettle

yes

like to fettle something or to be in (interruption) good fettle

or what fettle you always used to say what fettle

eh gully

mm-hm

yes

yes

eh howk

aye (unclear)

eh lowe

lowe aye I use it occasionally

sometimes like give us a lowe

aye give us a lowe

there's not many people use that now like

no actually I use I never think much about that now

aye

you know

I I I've met a few people who say they do use it sometimes

probably eh miner might aye give us a lowe for eh when they're working down the colliery and that you know

yes

shine your lowe on here

that's right yes yeah eh mense it would be more to your mense to get some work done

eh not really no probably a few years ago I've never used that for years I think now

yeah eh parky

oh yeah

about your food

mm-hm parky

varnigh

what

varnigh

oh aye varnigh (unclear)

mell mell

I don't think so I cannot eh think of that now mell

aye no for a hammer

mm

for a hammer

oh yes a mell wey aye (laughter)

(unclear) (laughter)

give us a big mell

big mell

there was some blokes using it in the yard last night the old hut down the in the coal house you use the big mell

yes (laughter)

well of course by itself you stop to think what the devil's a mell mean you know

yes (laughter) it's definitely (unclear) eh knooled to be knooled you know

knooled I don't think I've ever heard of that one a fore now

to be eh hen pecked or you know kept down like

oh aye aye hen pecked but not knooled I've never heard that a fore like I can say I've never used that word knooled

now ehm (pause) more or less on the same lines like I'm going to read out eh this list of sentences and eh for each one I would just like to know if it sounds like an ordinary sentence to you you know if it sound like if it sounds like something you might say if the circumstances arose

mm-hm

if it's okay eh 'were you wakened last night when I came in' something you would say

oh I would say that aye

yeah ehm 'I was still a bed when you called this morning'

oh I would say that mm-hm

yes ehm 'he never gave us any'

mm-hm I would use it

yeah yeah eh 'do you not go there very often'

aye it's okay I think

yeah eh 'they're useless them'

oh aye I still use that they're useless them

eh me and John went to the races on Saturday

mm-hm

mm eh 'I might could manage it'

aye I've said that said that and all

mm eh 'he wouldn't could have worked even if you had asked him'

aye I suppose so

mm yeah it's ower big to get through there

mm-hm

mm eh you know my cousin that her husband died'

no I wouldn't that never heard that one

no aye eh 'with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her'

aye

yes eh I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

aye I could do mm-hm

yes eh 'they go to the pictures of a Sunday'

say that again

they go to the pictures of a Sunday

aye it's eh

ehm (pause) 'I was coming home on the train and if I didn't leave my coat lying on the seat'

aye it's eh well it's a regular saying like and if I didn't leave my

(laughter) yes ehm these ones are pretty big to them others

it's okay

yes eh here she had left her pram standing outside the shop'

here what

here she had left her pram standing outside the shop'

aye I suppose it's (pause) eh okay it's a bit hard that one

eh aye

here what was that

h here she had left her pram you know I mean if people were surprised about it like you know

oh aye aye aye here she had left her pram aye

(unclear)

aye it's all right for eh up here mm-hm

yes (laughter) eh 'I think we'll be soon for the picture'

mm-hm

ehm 'would you mind stop talking'

aye I suppose you could hear that use that

yeah eh do you want a cup of tea making

mm-hm

yeah eh 'you know him that used to work on the railways'

mm-hm

mm eh 'he happened a nasty accident'

yeah

mm I'll put the kettle on for to make some tea

yeah

eh 'I wanted for to talk to you about it'

yeah

yes ehm 'when did it happen you'

no I'd put that another way

no eh 'I've got money belonging him'

mm-hm

yes eh 'could you shift your head so as I can see out the back'

yeah I say that in the van (laughter)

(laughter) eh I'm going to get some wool for our Pamela a jumper'

yes

yeah eh 'it's all right for you you're used with it'

yeah

mm-hm eh 'we've been waiting of a bus'

pardon

'we've been waiting of a bus'

oh yes

yes eh 'I think they're going to give him the job permanent'

yeah

mm 'I don't bother much about the television and that'

yeah

'there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought'

yeah

mm-hm eh 'many people were there there'

yeah

mm eh 'where did you get it at'

yes

mm 'never mind I'll manage but'

yeah mm-hm

eh 'never the wonder I couldn't get it to work it's not plugged in'

yes

never the wonder's okay 'me and George is going to the town today'

yes that's right enough I think (unclear) doesn't it bad grammar (laughter)

(laughter) it's local grammar

it is it really spoils it doesn't it yes ah it's it's right

it's all (unclear) stuff yes

it is it's what's used every day it is mm-hm

eh 'Jack didn't think much to the race'

mm-hm

mm 'all the caravan sites are good and I've stayed on them nearly all'

mm-hm

mm eh 'they've not seen it'

yes

mm 'it's far too long this'

yeah

mm-hm 'how's your wife and family then'

yes

mm 'Joe cannot come tomorrow being as he's working late'

yeah that's regular now I think

mm-hm eh 'what is it he does for a living'

mm-hm

'just light the fire on will you'

yes mm

eh 'I'll clout yous both in a minute'

aye (laughter) I've done that a few times

yeah eh 'how much have they offered we'

mm-hm

mm eh 'pass us one of them spanners'

yes

eh I've broke a plate I'm afraid

yes that's right

mm 'I come this morning but you weren't in'

mm-hm

eh 'he done it all right'

yeah

eh I had forgetten to buy the onions'

yeah

mm 'he give us a pound for doing it'

mm-hm

mm eh 'we had went to the coast for the day'

yes

mm eh 'I seen Albert on Tuesday'

yes

yes eh 'I'm not going to stand being tret like that'

yeah I've heard that a few times

mm eh 'that's what happens when you be naughty'

mm-hm

mm 'I'll probably see him a Saturday'

yeah

mm eh 'I doubt he'll have to stay in hospital for a long time'

yeah

mm 'you've letten him get away'

mm-hm

mm 'my mother's keep coming in to see us'

yes

mm eh 'we'll sharp get this done'

yes

mm eh 'he's as Tyneside as what I am'

yeah

mm eh 'you used to sweep the floor and us used to wash the dishes'

I say that

eh and eh just getting a little bit more complicated ehm could you give us eh the opposite of 'I'll be going there this week'

you'll be going I'll be going there this week

yes

the opposite

yes

well I'll be coming back next week (laughter)

aye

oh you mean eh

I was thinking more of ehm like I'll not be going there next week

you'll not be going there next week

or I won't be going there you know

I'll not be ganning there next week

yes eh again the opposite of he's got some

he hasn't any

right ta again the opposite of he's seen that picture

he hasn't seen it

ta eh the opposite of you're working late tonight

I'll be early

(laughter) ta eh the opposite of I gave him one

I didn't I give him nowt

mm oh eh suppose that eh you went up to somebody in the street to ask for a match what would you normally say

gis a light

uh-huh and could you just finish off this sentence eh I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

the morrow

right ta