eh that's right ehm well just start at the beginning could you tell us eh where you were born please

where was I born in Morrison Street Gateshead

were you yes

yes

and eh whereabouts else have you lived since then you know how long did you stay there

I've always lived here I lived down there until I was married

aye

and when I was married I moved into this (interruption) house

moved here so just the two places

just the two places

ehm (pause) which did you like best you know as a place to live (interruption) (unclear)

between the two

yeah

oh well that's my home (laughter) down there

is it

yes this is my second home it's just (pause) mm-hm

yeah do you think it's a good part of the town to live down there

well not now it was when we were j (pause) kiddies like you know children because we used to have to make our own enjoyment and that

mm

you know

did you find it a very friendly sort of place

oh yes very much is when everybody gets together

yes

there was no vandalism and anything when we were kids you know

no

nothing like that

done a good few interviews down there you know

have you

aye

ah

that's right

people are eh (pause) they would help each other eh neighbours in those days you know sort of poverty sort of kept us together I think

yes mm eh would you say that you were fairly attached to Gateshead as a place to live in (interruption) you know do you think you would ever leave

oh I should think yes I'm attached to Gateshead (interruption) yes definitely

aye you'd never go to Newcastle for instance (unclear)

not to live I would never go there to live no I like to go and visit but shop but not to not live

aye what about eh you know Tyneside compared to the rest of the country do you think Tyneside's a better place than (pause) you know

well personally myself I think the you see we've c advanced a lot in Gateshead eh (pause) (unclear) Gateshead council have done wonders you know in Gateshead

yes

myself I've eh apart from here I think eh I've always liked down south if I if I wanted to move like it would have been down London (unclear)

yes have you been down there on holiday

visiting yes I used to have a brother lived down there

mm yes eh do you find that eh Tynesiders are very different from people from other parts of the country you know in your experience

oh yes I think eh it's a bit of a fallacy that they're all friendly mind

(laughter) yes

I found that out I think this is myself because even in these places you can if you were living on your own I think you could be lonely

aye

in the North East (pause) myself

yes

I've always found the Cockneys don't get such a grand name but I've always found them very nice people mm-hm very nice friendly people (unclear)

eh whereabouts were your parents born they were born in Gateshead as well

well I mean my mother was fetched up in Blackhill

aye

and my father lived in Newcastle and then he went to work at during the war at Coventry

mm-hm

that's a place I like I visit that

aye

because his (unclear) he still keeps in touch with we and he's been dead for about eighteen year we still keep in touch

yes seems to be a nice place that I've never (interruption) been

oh it's nice lovely shopping centre

yes

nice shopping centre

ehm what was your father's occupation what did he do

he was a general labourer

yes (pause) ehm (pause) could you tell us please eh which age group you come into on that card if you could just say the letter

which age group eh (pause) well I'm in between the two shall I say the one nearest or go on to eh the last one

(laughter) compliment yourself

compliment oh well I'll say between the forty ones and fifties you see

(laughter) eh (pause) and on what basis do you occupy this house again if you could just say the letter

well it's just rented this one yes

yes mm mm ehm (pause) eh you're doing a you are working at the moment

yes

yeah whereabouts do you work

the post office

ehm where wh which one (unclear)

the telephone exchange

oh I see in (interruption) Newcastle

Newcastle Carlyle House

yeah is that what what kind of a job's that (interruption) do you enjoy it

I'm cleaning oh I like it yes uh-huh and I like it uh-huh

ehm (pause) what sort of ehm (pause) what sort of other jobs have you done in your life you know

shop assistant I've always been a shop assistant

have you

yeah

is that what you did when you first left school

ah yes I went to the shop and eh (pause) mostly from one shop to another you know not a lot of shops but eh what I did I went from one shop to another I was in the (unclear) and grocery line you know that's what I like

aye did you used to work around here (interruption) in shops

I used to work in the Co op over the road (interruption) it used to be a fruit shop I used to work over there (interruption)

(interruption) did you (interruption) oh

then eh I had to give it up for the little girl then I went into the cleaning work because it was part time you see (interruption) couple of hours in the morning and couple of hours at night

yes is it yeah is it just part time that you work now like

eh well no now I work full time but it still shifts you know I still go morning and night

yes what what time do you start

I start at six o'clock in the morning mm-hm

(laughter) yeah

I've done a shift by dinnertime nearly

yes

I'm finished then I go back tonight again you see gan about four o'clock

do you

mm-hm

yes (pause) ehm (pause) eh (pause) eh (pause) how old were you when you left school

when I left school fourteen

yes

mm-hm

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

well I wanted to (pause) but it was only just to make money it wasn't with the idea of leaving school I don't (interruption) think you know

oh I see yes

uh-huh

eh

because you really wanted to help your parents and everything

yes (unclear) ehm (pause) would you say you know looking back on your on your education would you say it had been worth very much to you in your life since you left school

no not a great deal no I well I mean I I was good quite a good scholar when I left school I could have went to the grammar school but eh we couldn't afford the uniform my mother couldn't afford the uniform you see we couldn't you had to buy all your books and uh pencils in those days

aye

you all had to have a uniform it was compulsory in those days and eh (pause) my father wanted to send us I mean he wa because his father was well educated because my father paid to go to school because his parents were pretty well off but eh I didn't want to go I always thought they were a bit toffee nosed compared to the likes of us you know we thought they were

yes

I would be unhappy in them places you know

I see

through them we never bothered

I see you you so you wouldn't you wouldn't even have gone if you had (interruption) had the chance really you don't think no

yes I don't think so not even if I had had the money it was just the idea

mm eh what do you think about eh the same problem now you know I mean for kids these days do you think (interruption) they should carry on their education

oh my daughter yeah well she's she she goes to senior high but she would have passed for the grammar well my son went to the grammar school and he's in the air force now

yes

but ehm (pause) oh I think it's a good opportunity I wouldn't let her miss it I would eh tell her to keep take the idea away from her head that she was underneath anybody else now

mm

because you're as good as anybody else

aye

doesn't matter what circumstances in life you know

yeah yes

definitely I would just tell her to go anywhere as high as she could get if she had it in her I don't know whether she has you know she's a scholar bright she's good at the languages

yeah yeah

she goes to senior high in August

that's right up (unclear)

eh Saltwell senior high

oh yes

it's the nearest from here I think she might have went to the Dryden if we'd moved

uh-huh

you know but eh all her friends (interruption) are going anyway

is that eh Avenue Road

Avenue Road it is Saltwell senior high

is that eh eh co educational now like is it

oh yes they all are there's no eh grammar in gate she would have went to the grammar if it had been on because eh I think she's pretty well top in her class you know

aye I knew they were like eh (pause) comprehensive like but I didn't know that they were eh boys and girls all in the same (interruption) school

oh yeah she's been eh at the school about three year they've been boys and girls about three year now comprehensive uh-huh

do you think eh do you think schools have changed very much since you were at school

oh yes definitely

yes

well they're not frightened of teachers like we were (laughter)

(laughter) yes

no aye

do you think eh that's a good thing or a (interruption) bad thing

oh I think it's a good thing myself

do you (unclear)

long as it's not carried too far I don't believe in too fami you know familiar like eh they call them by their first name teachers

do they

sometimes I don't know whether it's a good point or a bad point (interruption) you know

yes

but eh she just talks to her teachers as if she was talking to anybody

yes

where we didn't dare look around

yeah do you think they were too strict like when you were in school

well a little bit too strict we used to get strapped if we turned our head you know

yes

very strict I think sometimes it stopped you from learning if you wanted to learn it might prevent you from learning

yes yes

oh yes I think it's a good thing but I think teachers should be a bit more stricter in a (pause) the way kiddies go on these days you know

yeah

bit more stricter in the way they talk and that

yes ehm eh when you were fairly young yourself that you know when you were under twelve say you were living down in eh

Morrison Street

Morrison Street

uh-huh

did you eh did you think that was a good place to live you know from your point of view as a child then like (interruption) did you enjoy yourself

oh no not to live no I would have liked to had a better place to live (unclear) house in them days you know because there was no modern (unclear) like carpet or you know

that's true yes

but it was nice the houses but eh as my mother had a big family and it was on the flat you you know so they stayed there

yeah yes but I think I think kids sometimes don't really notice these things you know I mean you might did you not would you not say (interruption) you had a fairly good childhood

oh well I noticed because I've always been a bit on the proud side I had all brothers you know

aye

and ehm boys I don't think take any notice

yes

but with me being a girl I was very eh watchful and that but oh yes I used to wish I'd had a better type of house and things like that (unclear)

yes

and it's took me twenty odd years to get myself out now and then buy what I wanted

yes

to improve

yes

you know

are you you're buying a new house

yes I'm buying the well they're bought actually it's just eh I'm I'm buying it for my mother and taking my mother with us

yeah ah it's it's just (interruption) like a pair of flats is it

yes I'm going to take her downstairs and then I'm putting eh bathrooms on you know and all modernized I've tried to do a lot in here (unclear) especially (unclear) landlords because they won't do anything so eventually the job that I took I thought well I've found I'll buy flats you know (unclear) well she could have one (unclear) and they might move her too far away and it's she's getting old you know a lot for me to do

yes these ones here are coming down aren't they

no not this one here (unclear) no

aye

I've put a bath in and you know hot water and that myself and put fireplaces in myself and sort of hardboard and try to make it decent but that's as far as you can go with them you can't do much more (unclear)

aye

unless you're go get with (unclear) you know what I mean

mm-hm

I mean I've spent about two eh (pause) it's cost about two thousand pound in rent since I've come in well I've got nothing to show for it you see

yes

so (pause) what I spend on future'll be for my own benefit

yeah eh (pause) oh yes ehm these are just a few questions about eh some words that you use for things could you tell us please just eh what you call each of the rooms of your house you know what your normal word is (interruption) for each room

oh well I'll dare say I'm still old fashioned now and I call that the scullery I suppose it's the kitchenette now

yes

that's the scullery and eh we call that the living room what you call now is the kitchen you call it a kitchen

yes

the bedrooms but my sitting room I've got a sitting room yeah we could have been in there it's cooler aye and that's we call I call that the sitting room people call them the lounge these days

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

you go through there

what do you call the what do you call the thing you have to lift to get out

oh that's eh (pause) the bolt the catch

eh well not the bolt the thing you actually lift

the turn thing on the top the catch I would call (interruption) that catch

catch do you yeah okay

(unclear) (interruption) what I call the catch (unclear) maybe

yeah (laughter)

the latch actually

aye

ehm and eh what do you call the thing you stand in front of the fire to get it going sheet of tin you stand in front of the fire

oh well I know what you call it a bleezer (laughter) generally call it the (unclear) (laughter)

ehm (pause) eh can you tell us please just eh you know how you like to spend your spare time and that assuming you ever get any

oh jus I just like watching television and maybes going out one night a week to the club that's all

aye which club do you go to

we go to the Railway Club

yeah whereabouts is that

that's down beside Gateshead station

oh aye yes yeah is it very good

well it's you know pretty decent like eh you get good shows on sometimes you get bad shows you know

yeah (pause) ehm what eh what sort of things do you like to watch on television you know what I mean

I like watching television oh I like to see a good film to tell you the truth

mm-hm

mm I'm not for Coronation Street I don't watch Coronation Street

yes

eh I like mostly mainly watch American shows I like

aye

uh-huh I like watching American eh you know mm-hm

do you eh do eh you watch it very much you know I mean is it on

oh no not eh not a great lot in fact I like to read the Evening Chronicle

aye it's you don't you don't set out

I watch it and read the Evening Chronicle at the same time

aye you don't si ehm (pause) is it usually sort of on all the time from six o'clock till eleven or or do you just (interruption) put on when you

well I like I'll tell what I put it on it goes on at quarter to six every night because I love to hear the news

aye

I like to hear the news (unclear) the BBC news the North East I listen to that every night from then on it's a matter of just being on

aye

sometimes we watch (interruption) (unclear)

you don't particularly watch it

but eh I'm mostly reading

yes yes ehm (pause) ehm do you think like you know in the way of like recreation activities do you think there's any sort of things that you would like to have done but you've never got round to or you've never had the chance to

yes I've always wanted to go dancing and I never went dancing

aye

I never get round to it

like ballroom dancing (interruption) and that

yes I always wanted to go dancing

you could go and learn some places in (interruption) Gateshead

I could you know uh-huh there's one on the high street isn't there

that's right yes

I know I could go it's just I think I'm getting a bit old now

(laughter)

you know I would like it I suppose i it's always something I've wanted to do it's eh (pause) I've liked it you know

yes eh (pause) what do you think eh what do you think would happen if you won sort of a very large sum of money tomorrow you know if you won the pools or (interruption) something

what would I do

yeah

buy a beautiful house

aye

a really lovely house

whereabouts

well that's something I've never decided but it wouldn't be too far away from Gateshead I'm afraid

aye

it would be eh up Low Fell or just somewhere lo or round Saltwell Park that area

yes

up you know up that way

yes

I'd like eh (pause) in fact I tried to get one up Low Fell before I bought these flats that's what I'd definitely would love a sum of money for we to buy a nice house

aye

a really nice house yes it's always been my ambition a really nice house

yeah do you think it would sort of change your way of life very much you know you

not really no it would never t change me no

no

I would still have the same thoughts and ideas

aye yeah (pause) eh (pause) these are just a (pause) few questions about your opinions on uh some things ehm (pause) what what do you think that parents should do when their children misbehave you know how do you think they should (interruption) control them

what parents should do I always believe that two eh parents should agree with children not one take one side and the other not you know

aye I see yes uh-huh

they should agree or if you don't agree to keep quiet till the other one's finished that's definitely one thing I do eh believe in

yes

I'm very strict I must say that I'm rather strict with children

(unclear) like would you smack them quite often

I don't smack them no but I do definitely shout I think it's the only thing I've got and I have (unclear)

(laughter)

but she can be a good girl if if she wants to she's (unclear) I think I'm a bit frightened she gets in company you know

aye yes

because you have to worry about these things they've more temptation than we had that's one thing I will say

yes

course they get more money than we ever had she gets more for pocket money than I got for (interruption) working for a week

for your wages yes

she does

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

which way do I vote Labour socialist mm-hm

yes y you always vote the same

always

yes

I've never changed my views

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

well that's probably could because of upbringing but eh no I definitely think that if well I tell you what my mind goes back to the the Tory days when lots of people were unemployed

aye

and this country never had any money but when war was declared they found millions of pounds for a war and up to then my father'd been out of work

yes

and on work and out of work and yet all that money was there to be got when there was a war that's something I'll always vote Labour I've seen too much eh poverty

yes aye

I had brothers who were at home you know and they served their time till they were twenty one and when they were twenty one my father was unemployed and when he went up they told him that his sons would have to keep him

mm-hm

he couldn't get any more money so my father said well my sons have never kept me and they never will keep me so they had to go away from home

yes

because they wouldn't give him any money you see if they stayed at home

yes

so they well they were more or less finished soon as they served their time and their jobs was finished they worked for nothing for years

yes

and my mother struggled to put them in apprentice put them in a trade each one in a trade and they both left home and that it was the breaking up of a family

mm-hm

that was

yes

that was the start of the family breaking up you see

yes

so (pause) so that's why I would never could never vote any other way

aye do you think that ehm (pause) do you think Labour governments have sort of done (interruption) been reasonably good

I think so they try to they should never been put out in my my opinion that's my (interruption) opinion

aye you're right there

it's just a tragedy they were but mind I do believe the Tory government won't have it all their own way like they did have Conservatives

mm

they'll never have it their own way like they did have

no

because people won't stand for it now

yes

where they have done in their time

mm

that's my opinion so

eh do you usually vote in every election you know do you vote in

every election local council government every one both of we do he's the same like in

if we could just eh if we could just eh go on to talk for a bit about eh you know what we are most interested in like that's the way you talk and that and what you think about it ehm firstly do you think that you ever change the way you speak according to you know like the person you're talking to or any other circumstances

well I might do ehm I don't really talk very Geordie suppose I say it myself you know I've never talked sort of real rough eh you know what I mean I mean we never have none of we have but I mean I suppose if anybody's talking ordinary then you're trying to talk ordinary back I wouldn't eh sort of talk slang to them you know I don't swear that I (unclear) very rare I mean I talk in (interruption)

excuse me

you don't eh you don't think that you ever talk sort of more more more localized to more local people you know if you get somebody who talks very rough and broad do you (interruption) (unclear)

no I don't like it mes I don't like them talking like that I don't think I do answer them that way you see in fact the more they talk I more cringe eh really with the dialect

mm-hm

because eh I always remember it was the first time I ever went down south my brother lived down there it was when they first left home and he went down the south and he was getting married so he took us to meet her in laws his in laws I should say

aye

and they said eh well they do you don't think he was coming from the same place I talked English I thought me (laughter)

(laughter)

that was the first time ever anybody I always thought I just talked ordinary well I've talked like this all my life I just talk that was eh just ordinary to me you know suppose I thought it was Geordie

aye

the way I talked

yes

but they said that they could understand me and not my brother and he's been down there for about four year

yes

but they could with me

yeah eh so you don't really ehm you don't really like Tyneside accents (interruption) really

not really no now when I when sometimes I listen on the television it makes me cringe

does it

yes I I like Geordie songs mind I like to hear them singing (interruption) them you know

aye

I like local eh songs but I don't like the Geordie voice

yeah is ehm are there many people around who you know whose whose accent you dislike you know is there many people broad enough for you to dislike you know what I mean

very few and far between I must tell you the truth very few eh I might hear an odd eh odd rough person but very few even my mother we don't talk eh real Geordie you never hear we talk you know

what s yeah what sort of people do you think it would be I mean old people for instance do you think

that should talk like that

that would be the broadest people

well I don't know I've heard some of the young ones coming up and they're worse than the the older generation

yeah (pause) yes because eh a lot of people think you know the only people who talk the really broad Tyneside are (interruption) sort of like old blokes

would be old people uh-huh no no my mother doesn't not really no eh just an odd word that eh you might get because she never had any education I mean she never went to school at all she was an orphan but eh I mean maybe odd words that she comes out with but eh some of my eh family's took it up course I never did because I used correct her that's how I know I never you see I would put her right

yes

you know she would say boots for shoes and you know it was always boots it was never shoes you see I would correct her I've always been the one sort of corrected them

aye

so I had to keep myself you know so more or less talking properly

yeah yes

that well properly I mean as I'm talking you see

yeah yes are you ehm (pause) do you think that ehm (pause) you know the way the newsreaders talk (interruption) on on the radio like or the television do you think that's a kind of ideal way to talk you know do you think everybody should talk (interruption) like that

yes yes yes I think so there's no eh eh there's no accent or (unclear) English language I think it's best to talk like that mind I like to hear other people talking eh if I go away on a train or anything I like to hear people with their accents I think it's nice

yes I think (interruption) so

and yet I can't stand my own

yes it's funny that way (interruption) yeah

I can't stand it I don't know why

I've lived in (unclear)

but no I can't it must eh maybes it's just because I haven't been away long enough from it I might want to hear it if I was away a long time

aye when you say you can't stand your own do you mean do you mean that you even disapprove of the way you speak

probably yeah (pause) probably yes uh-huh sometimes I wish I had been eh (pause) eh you know sort of eh (pause) don't forget yourself you know and talk properly all the time

yeah do you ehm do you know very many people who talk you know well like the newsreaders talk personally do you know any

no well th there's two or three eh I do know people eh supervisors at work you know I mean that's (unclear) people speak like that

yes

but eh

and do you like to hear them talk or do you do you ever do you never

eh sometimes I've no I think it's not really the way they talk it's eh the per people themselves I like

aye

it's the personality of the people

yes do you never feel that if somebody sort of talks like that they're putting it on or showing off or being (unclear)

well there is ehm (pause) there's one person who she's a supervisor and ehm everybody talks about her she'll sort of there's an accent to her when she talks you know you like that sort of talking well I don't like that

yes

it's a sort of a put on accent that

yes

it's not real now you see her husband talks (unclear) is Geordie

aye

and this lady always talks like that and she's always she does it though I mean I don't suppose she's putting it on and she talks like that real posh you know think she had a plum in her mouth sort of type of person she's a very nice person but I just can't stand that talk

aye yeah

not to me but ehm personally I just like a person that's just themselves I d wouldn't like you to put an accent on because you were (pause) you wanted to be eh because somebody's listening to you I mean I've just like people talking to you I wouldn't like anybody to put an accent on for the sake of putting it on

yeah yes (pause) ehm (pause) this eh (pause) might strike you as a bit of a vague sort of question but ehm what sort of things do you think you can tell about somebody from the way he talks you know just by listening to his pronunciation and that

eh wha what he is like or

yes do you think you would (interruption) sort of

I think so

have guess about his job (interruption) for instance

I think so yes

the kind of job he (interruption) does

yes I think so yes

do you think you'd be able to tell like you know the difference between somebody who worked in a factory and somebody who worked in an office

well not always no I wouldn't say that because eh (interruption)

n no not not always

no not always

but do you think do you think you know do you think you would have a guess like

you sometimes gue eh when you're working with a variety of people you ha well I think I could give a good guess myself but I know lots of girls works in factories they're very nice talkers there's girls who you would expect to talk nice that don't so (pause) therefore

yes (interruption) certainly that's about it

you know a surprising thing really

yes what ehm what would you say about my accent from listening to us now

well I should think you're local (pause) aren't you

yes

yes you've been fetched up very nice by somebody respectable (pause) parents (pause) I can tell that

I'll tell them

have you well you have you can tell you're the way you talk it's eh I think it's just the something in the way you're fetched up and gentle voiced people and they talk like that yeah

do you think I talk like you I mean

you talk a little bit like me but you talk even eh a little bit smoother than I talk I'm a bit rough on the edge compared with you I should think

eh (pause) mm do you think you could eh (pause) just read that list of words for us please

find mind fly bill well men head back home farm wall daughter down take straight cold alone poor fire four tower path after (unclear) field been new moon school revolution but none seven one long holiday room book school 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 now eh I'm going to read out a list of words that are all sort of fairly local Tyneside words you know and I would just like to know ehm firstly if you're familiar with it you know and secondly if you actually use it yourself

(unclear)

aside for beside

pardon

aside for beside you know would you say it's just aside the fire

(unclear)

bairn (pause) yes bait yes ehm bonny

body

bonny

bonny oh yes

aye ehm bray (pause) to bray somebody

oh bray yes

aye yes do you use it

well I might I've said it I should think yes I've said it uh-huh

eh bullets

yes well not m no I (unclear) saying that

yes

not normally I I hear it though yes

eh clamming

clamming

yes

it's funny I used that the other night (laughter)

boody

well no but I familiar they're familiar words

ehm cree

cree

mm-hm

no that's a word I've never used

but you know what it means though

I know what it means yes pigeon cree uh-huh

yeah eh lowe

no I've never

no do you know what it means

lowe

aye

no I cannot (interruption) say

a light or a flame or something a bit old fashioned

(laughter) what he means is give us a lowe

give us a lowe that's right

no I've never used that thing I've never heard that before

although I've never used it myself

you have heard it

oh yes I think eh

yes well there's he has got a different accent belongs to South Shields

eh you eh (pause) you don't hear it now you used to hear it more often in the old days you know

yes I think that's (interruption)

the street corners give us a lowe but you don't hear it now

(unclear)

there's a game evidently called Jack shine your lowe as well

aye

oh yeah uh-huh

eh

(laughter) that's a funny thing though I've never heard that word for years a lowe

(laughter) eh mense be more to your mense to get some work done

no I've never used that word

no

uh-huh

(unclear) (laughter)

eh parky

yes parky yes I've used that

uh-huh eh varnigh

no not (unclear) not that one

you've heard it though

oh I've heard it yes I've heard it uh-huh

eh knooled to be knooled

what did you say

knooled

well very rare I know what it means ehm (pause) I sh I would say kept down you see that's the difference I would say yes

eh (pause) now eh more or less on the same lines like I'm going to read out eh this list of sentences and for each one I would just like to know eh if it sounds like a normal sentence to you you know if it sounds okay ehm if it sounds like the sort of thing that you might say if the circumstances arose do you know what I mean

mm-hm

just if it sounds okay were you wakened last night when I came in

eh that sounds all right yes

yes I mean would you

m mm

eh I was still a bed when you called this morning

oh yes I suppose I would uh-huh

ehm he never gave us any

never give us it huh

yes

mm

eh do you not go there very often

I would say that yes

eh they're useless them

I would say that yes

me and John went to the races on Saturday

eh I probably would I would say John and me I (interruption)

mm

one thing I was always particular about someones name before my own uh-huh

(laughter) aye I might could manage it

I could say that yes

aye

uh-huh

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

I would say that I think uh-huh

ehm it's ower big to get through there

it's ower big (laughter) oh I don't think I would ower big no I would say too big uh-huh

eh you know my cousin that her husband died

well I could have said that uh-huh uh-huh

ehm (pause) with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her

with the what

with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her

with the wife being what

ill

being ill I had to stay in and look after her

well I might have yes I might have said that uh-huh yes

ehm I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

I could say that uh-huh

they go to the pictures of a Sunday

yes uh-huh

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

well I could say that uh-huh uh-huh

mm these ones are pretty big to them others

uh-huh yes

eh here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

yes I would say that

ehm (pause) I think we're going to be soon for the picture

yes I would say that

yeah mm

or film I would say it depends uh-huh

eh would you mind stop talking

oh yes yes I've said that

eh do you want a cup of tea making

yes

mm ehm you know him that used to work on the railway

uh-huh yes

eh he happened a nasty accident

yes

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

yes

I wanted for to talk to you about it

uh-huh

eh when did it happen you

uh-huh

yeah eh (pause) I've got money belonging him

yes

yeah eh could you mind your head so as I can see out the back

oh yes I'd probably say that like

yes eh I'm going to get some wool for our Pamela a jumper

mm-hm

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

yes (laughter)

yes eh we've been waiting of a bus

yes I would say that

eh (pause) I think they're going to give him the job permanent

yes I could say that

I don't bother much about the television and that

well I might say that yes sounds all right

mm yeah there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought

well very rare (unclear) but I you could say that yes uh-huh uh-huh

yes I mean yes eh many people were there there

no I don't think I would say that

no would you say how many people

not many people there

ah yeah I see eh where did you get it at

I've said I would say that uh-huh

yes eh never mind I'll manage but

yes

eh no the wonder I couldn't get it to work it's not plugged in no the wonder

the window

no the wonder

ah you've got to be deaf no the wonder

no the wonder

oh no the wonder no no I never say

uh-huh would you say no wonder do you

eh no I wouldn't say I wouldn't say that no I would say no wonder I think probably that's what I would say no wonder I couldn't get it to work mm-hm

ehm (pause) me and George is going to the town today

uh-huh that's what I would say or George and I I might say George and I yeah uh-huh

yes eh jack didn't think much to the race

Jack didn't think much of the race

of the race uh-huh eh (pause) all the caravan sites are good and I've stayed on them nearly all

well I might say that yes

mm-hm yeah they'd not seen it

not seen it uh-huh

eh it's far too long this

I could say that aye

yes eh how's your wife and family then

mm-hm

eh (pause) Joe cannot come tomorrow being as he's working late

uh-huh

yeah

uh-huh

what is it he does for a living

what is what

what is it he does for a living

my husband

no

oh y it's just a saying oh that's uh-huh yes I could say that uh-huh

just light the fire on will you

uh-huh I've said that

yes ehm (pause) I'll clout yous both in a minute

no

no

no

eh

I'll smack you

yes

uh-huh

eh how much have they offered we how much have they offered we

I could say that yeah

aye eh pass us one of them spanners

yes mm-hm

yes eh I've broke a plate

yes

yes mm (pause) I come this morning but you weren't in

yes

yes eh (pause) he done it all right

yes

mm-hm eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

uh-huh

yeah ehm he give us a pound for doing it

yes

mm-hm we had went to the coast for the day

yes

yeah ehm (pause) I seen Albert on Tuesday

yes

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

yes I would say that mm-hm

yeah eh that's what happens when you be naughty

yes

yeah ehm (pause) I'll probably see him a Saturday

yes

uh-huh eh I doubt he'll have to stay in hospital for a long time

yes

mm eh you've letten him get away

uh-huh

yeah ehm my mother's keep coming in to see us

yes

yeah eh we'll sharp get this done

yes

yes eh (pause) he's as Tyneside as what I am

(laughter) yes (laughter)

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

yes uh-huh

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

the opposite

the opposite mm-hm

I'll be going there this week (pause) (unclear) (pause) see you at the weekend or something like that

no I was thinking more of like ehm I'll not be going there this week (interruption) or I won't go there

I will go there this week something like that

oh eh well we will be going there this week

no well I was interested really in whether you would say like I'll not be going there this week or I won't be going there this week you know I mean something something something like that you know like

I'll not be going there this week

mm yes eh eh again the opposite of he's got some

he's got to eh well he has to

yes eh the opposite of he's seen that picture

eh (pause) what would I say to that he's seen it once I would say probably

yes eh the opposite of you're working late tonight

you're not working tonight

yes ta ehm again the opposite of I gave him one

I didn't give him one

yes ta ehm suppose that you went up to somebody in the street to ask for a match what would you say

can you give us a I would say give us a light please

yes ta ehm (pause) and could you just finish off this sentence ehm (pause) I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

today

yes ta