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Age Group:

17-20

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Gateshead

Education:

Left school at 15

Occupation:

Sewing Machinist

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Gender:

Female

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well ehm (pause) to start at the beginning could you tell us eh first of all where you were born please

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ehm along the road (laughter)

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whereabouts is it

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along the road

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were you on this (interruption) very street

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uh-huh uh-huh

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and eh (pause) whereabouts else have you lived since then you know

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just in here

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just you've just sort of moved (interruption) along two doors then yeah

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yes

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what eh (pause) what do you think about this area then as a place to live in and that

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well it's all right really you know (pause) there's not much (pause) there's not much exciting happens like

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no

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there's only the youth club that's the only place you know for we to go

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uh-huh yes

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and that's really all

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what about this sort of is it very neighbourly you know do you think that (interruption) people are fairly friendly (interruption)

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(interruption) uh-huh (interruption) ah yes

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mm mm mm ehm would you say that eh (pause) what do you feel about like Gateshead as a place to live in you know do you (pause) think you would ever fancy moving away from Gateshead

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no

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no

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mm

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what eh what is there anything particular you like about it or just that

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I don't know really it's just that with us being brought up here you know

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yeah I suppose so mm eh (pause) so (unclear) you just see yourself sort of living on Tyneside you know for the rest of your life if it

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uh-huh

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if it's not your choice yeah mm eh (pause) have you ever (pause) been away from Tyneside very often you know (interruption) (unclear)

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well (pause) just you know like on holiday

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holidays

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to Scotland and ehm

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yeah mm

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that's all really

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mm

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just on holiday that's all

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mm do you find that eh (pause) do you find Tynesiders very different from people from other parts of the country you know

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well up Scotland it wasn't too bad because (pause) you know they sort of talk like us don't they

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aye I suppose so

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it was just really the same

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yeah yes a lot of people say things like eh (pause) you know they find people here much more friendly than people (interruption) (unclear)

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aye apart from that they are really

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yes mm you know I get this even from people who don't come from here much it's it's the (unclear) mm ehm (pause) eh whereabouts were your parents born please

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ehm my mam was born along Sunderland Road

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mm

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my dad my dad was born down Gateshead

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yeah

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just you know just round here still

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yeah yes and eh (pause) ehm what was your father's oh well what is your father's occupation

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ehm he's off work now he's (pause) been off work for quite a while with his back (pause) he was a labourer

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yeah

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he is

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who does he work for

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he doesn't work for nobody at the moment

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aye

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with him being off he's been off over a year now

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yeah (unclear) (pause) yeah and eh (pause) just eh sort of completing the facts eh how old are you at the moment

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seventeen

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yeah mm and eh (pause) and this is a council house right

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uh-huh

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mm mm mm ehm (pause) now eh (pause) if you eh eh are you working at the moment

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uh-huh tra- trading estate

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where

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Alexandra's (pause) they make (interruption) suits

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now that's the gown eh place

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uh-huh

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yes oh right

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I've only worked there a year like (pause) used to work in a shop at the top (pause) Brough's (interruption) Self Service

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yes yes mm what eh (pause) how did the two jobs compare like which one did you like best

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the shop because you meet more people in the shop

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aye

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and it's more friendly really (pause) you know

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yeah what

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because the factory people you know like mostly stick to theirselves

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do they

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mm-hm

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oh

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you know like if they come from one area they usually stay together

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oh I see aye right yes

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but the shop like with (unclear) there's only a few of you you all mix in

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mm-hm yes

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and you're mixing with customers

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that's true yeah (pause) yes the that's qu- it's n- they employ nearly all women there don't they I mean that's

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mm at Alexandra's?

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at the factory yes yes

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yes

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because like I was working (pause) quite near there last summer you know and I always used to see g- qu- (pause) hoards and hoards of women outside down there at tea breaks and that

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mm-hm

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mm what about eh (pause) is the money very much better there

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the money's better (interruption) uh-huh

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in the factory mm

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but (pause) I'd rather go back to the shop (unclear) really you know

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yes yeah (pause) what about eh the job itself in the factory you know what kind of eh thing do you do

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well I'm on the machines and on the press (pause) depends how much work we've got (pause) you know like

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yeah

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if there's a lot of work on the machine I'll go on the machine and if there's

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what is yeah is that like stitching up (interruption) and stuff like that

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sewing (pause) sewing up the sleeves uh-huh

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yeah

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and if there's a lot on the press I'll go on the press depends

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mm yes mm mm mm (pause) eh would you and do would you say you were fairly (pause) eh settled in your present job you know or would you think you'd

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oh I'd like a change really (laughter)

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

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fifteen

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mm eh do you think you were glad to leave school at the time then

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not really (pause) wanted to stay on but (pause) all my friends were leaving you know

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aye

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so I just left with them

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oh yes it's a pity that like course eh did you get the impression that ehm (pause) that staying on at school wasn't a sort of popular thing to do you know what I mean

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mm-hm

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yeah I see mm did you did you used to enjoy school (interruption) (unclear)

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uh-huh it was good

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aye

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used to go to (laughter) Hill Head and then to Saltwell senior high school it's a comprehensive it was a boy's grammar school

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yes is that the one on eh on (unclear) road there

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uh-huh

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yes yeah (pause) mm is eh what's what what's the what's the case now does Hill Head not take (interruption) all the kids from here right up to fifteen (interruption)

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(interruption) Hill Head's (interruption) no they just take them up to thirteen no fourteen and then have to go to Alexandra Road

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oh yes must be a bit of a ehm you know bit awkward for people like that changing (interruption) after their last year

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(unclear) it is really stupid in a way because you have to like get uniform for your other school and you're only there for a year

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mm (pause) mm yes (unclear) right difficulty with people who are sort of (pause) get sick with their last year at school you know (interruption) and they get sort of

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uh-huh

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mm now (pause) would you say that you know ehm (pause) eh (pause) you haven't got much to look back over of course but looking back on your education you know would you say that since you left school (pause) it had been worth very much to you like you know (unclear) for instance

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well it was when I was at the shop

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yes mm

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was (pause) (unclear) shop you know

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yes

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mm and like pronouncing it right to the customers you know (pause) that's all but it's no (unclear) really

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(unclear) mm what about ehm (pause) you know outside work like just in your ordinary life do you ever (pause) do you ever feel that it's been important to you you know just for yourself like but

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never really think about it (laughter)

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no more or less put it all behind you do you think

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uh-huh

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yeah (pause) eh (pause) do you think that eh (pause) do you think it's on the whole a good idea you know for ehm (pause) for kids to stay on at school if they can I mean (unclear)

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well it really depends on what they want to be you know

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yes

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if they want to be like (pause) something like (pause) something good it depends (laughter)

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mm yes you would th- you would think that it eh you know that if they wanted to stay on it would have to be specifically for some sort of job that they wanted to do (interruption) (unclear)

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mm-hm that's what they usually stay on for that's all

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yeah yeah eh

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usually if they want to be a nurse they stay on for qualifications

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mm-hm yeah

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and that's all

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when you left school did you have sort of did you have a very clear idea of what sort of job you would do when mm

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oh I wanted to go in a shop

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mm

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well first I wanted to be a nanny

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yeah

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but my mam says I was a bit young to leave home you know to go to

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yes

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you hear some people going away and not v- having very good homes you know when they're there (pause) so I just went to the shop

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yeah (pause) mm (pause) ehm (pause) eh you you've you've lived here all your life haven't you in fact (interruption) you've

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yes

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so (pause) mm-hm

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oops

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thanks very much

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do you want one

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ehm (pause) what eh (pause) you know if you could sort of cast your mind back to when you were say fairly young say under twelve year old between five and twelve ehm do you think this was a fairly good area to live in from your point of view as a (pause) a a child there you know did (interruption) did you enjoy your childhood yeah

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uh-huh uh-huh it was good

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yeah (pause) can you remember any of the (pause) sort of things you used to do you know games you used to play or (pause) eh

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(unclear)

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mm-hm

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eh (pause) we just usually go to the park or to the library dep- depends

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yeah

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or to go to the woods we used to go to the woods

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mm

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you know to where there's a stream at Washingwell Woods

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yes yeah it's quite a popular place isn't it for

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we used to go there along the (unclear)

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yeah yeah what about like ehm you know children's eh street games did you play very many of them

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mm uh-huh not when I used to live along there never because there's hardly any kids you know to play with (pause) just since I come here (pause) we used to play like hidey or (pause) relievo

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mm-hm mm mm you know can you remember (pause) you know we're sort of fairly interested in the words that people used for various things can you remember ehm (pause) what you used to call (pause) just like a game where one of the kids had to chase the others to try to touch them

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sticky toffee (laughter)

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eh (pause) yes probably but I was just the the very simplest form of the game you know where you touch somebody and

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tuggy

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yeah yeah that's what I used to call it eh and what did you used to say about the one who had to chase the others you know the one who had to chase the others you know the one whose turn it was to chase

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mm (pause) just the same tuggy

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but (pause) well did you used to say that that somebody was on you know what

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uh-huh

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yes you did yeah and eh (pause) what did you used to say ehm (pause) when you wanted to call a halt in the game for some reason you know if you wanted to like eh

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we just used to say

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did you just cross your fingers

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we change wor games (laughter)

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aye eh no I was thinking of like a special (interruption) truce word you know if you want to if you want the thing (unclear) used to cross your fingers (interruption)

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(interruption) oh right (interruption) oh I would just say eh (pause) skinchers

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and say

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(unclear)

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yes mm and eh (pause) what did you used to call (pause) you know the things that little lads flick along the ground

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marbles

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right did you not have another word for them

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liggies was it liggies

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yes mm

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liggies uh-huh

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that's what we used to call them as well

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used to play hidey as well

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yeah (pause) eh (pause) still on the ehm idea of sort of what words you use for things ehm what do you call each of the rooms in this house you know what's your normal word for each room

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well we usually call this the kitchen

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yeah

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and the other place the back kitchen

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mm

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and the scullery

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mm-hm yeah

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and then the passage way upstairs the landing

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yeah

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and the bathroom and toilet round bedrooms

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yeah ehm (pause) and eh what do you call ehm (pause) your back door's probably different you know but to get out like an old fashioned back door you know you have to lift the

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sneck up

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yes right aye eh

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in the wash house we've got (unclear) and the coal house

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mm

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and wor arch

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yes

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we've got

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ehm (pause) and what do you call eh (pause) I don't know if you've got one of these the thing you stand in front of the fire to get it going

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one them what you blow one of them things

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no I mean the like a sheet of tin that (interruption) that you put in front of the fi-

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like a bleezer

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yes yeah (pause) eh could you tell us please just ehm (pause) you know how you like to spend your spare time and that you know your evenings and weekends and that

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well (pause) with the weekends we usually go down to the coast (pause) for a night you know like

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aye

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go down about half past six or something get down there half past se-

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yes

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seven (pause) just usually go there on a night time we just usually go to a friend's and listen to records

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mm

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or go to bus (pause) get a bus ride somewhere

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aye

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it depends how much money we've got (laughter)

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(laughter) yeah

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or (pause) if there's any Newcastle football matches on we usually go there

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aye you go to watch the match then mm fairly regularly during the season

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uh-huh eh well everyday well every match we usually go to

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oh (pause) yeah

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but my my friends that work (pause) eh

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yeah

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I used to work with in the shop I still knock round with them but they work on a Saturday so they can't come

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yes that's true

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but on Wednesday night we usually go (pause) you know

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yeah

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but a friend at work ehm we're in the supporters club Newcastle's

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mm-hm

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and we usually go away cheaper

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yeah

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last season ehm (pause) oh it was only two pounds to go down to London

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yeah cheap that

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to Arsenal's match

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yeah

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and it works out really cheaper in the supporters club

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yeah

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I think it's five shilling now to join

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mm

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and that's with (interruption) (unclear)

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(unclear) yeah it's quite a big eh (pause) canny incentive (interruption) (unclear)

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uh-huh

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(unclear) football matches mm whereabouts what sort of places do you go to down the coast you know is it

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eh just Whitley Bay you know usually the Spanish City

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mm

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on the shows

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

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mm eh don't know not really I (pause) I've really sort of done everything

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aye

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I'd like to go abroad like but we're thinking about going next year my three f- friends

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aye aye

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that's all really

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where to have you got any ideas

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don't know yet haven't suggested it (laughter)

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mm but (pause) would you say you were fairly sort of eh you know contented with your life as it is at the minute (interruption) and not really yeah okay

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uh-huh

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what do you think would happen if ehm (pause) you know if you won a very large sum of money tomorrow like if you won the pools or something like that

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oh (unclear) (pause) don't know really (laughter)

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do you think it would change your (pause) way of life very much and that you know

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I don't think so

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mm

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I would just buy a car that's all (laughter)

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(laughter) yes

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save bus fares (laughter)

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(laughter)

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and that's all aye

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strangely enough most people say that you know that they don't you know they don't think it would change the the sort of things they do very much at all you know they would still (pause) do you think you would buy a a a new house (pause) no

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no

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mm (pause) eh do you eh watch television very much you know

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uh-huh

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yeah

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well (pause) when (pause) well I'm (pause) on Monday night I stay in

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yeah

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and tonight I stay in (pause) and that's all I watch it you know (pause) well I baby sit like tomorrow night and go out on weekends

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yeah

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that's all I watch

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yeah what eh (pause) what kind of things do you like to watch you know

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well eh I like to watch the wrestling and cowboys uh-huh

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yeah

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and I used to like Alias Smith And Jones on BBC Two Monday night

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yeah I like them yeah I don't really know television programmes because I haven't got one (laughter) (pause) too poor (pause) eh (pause) these are just ehm (pause) a few questions about your opinions on some you know ordinary matters like eh (pause) what do you think that eh parents should do when their children misbehave you know how do you think they should (interruption) (pause) check them

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oh ehm (pause) oh well it depends on the parents really you know well I don't know it depends if they've done something seriously wrong you know

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aye do you think they should ehm (pause) if it was something serious do you think they should hit them

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uh-huh (pause) well (pause) not really hit them you know like keep them in or something for so long

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aye yes (pause) mm and what about (pause) what about say some person of say sixteen or so do you think they should be more or less allowed to do as they want or not

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not really (pause) I well I wasn't really stopped for doing anything but

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mm

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you know I couldn't really do everything I wanted (pause) you know

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mm (laughter) yes it's a subtle sort of situation to mm mm (pause) eh (pause) this is eh going on to something different it's a question you don't have to answer if you don't want because eh some people don't eh (pause) which way do you vote have you voted yet you you d-

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no I haven't voted

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have you not

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no

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you had one chan- you had one chance to vote didn't you in the last (interruption) local government election

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yes (pause) last mm-hm (pause) but I think I was bad then and I couldn't

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mm mm which way do you think that you will vote I mean (interruption) (unclear)

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for Labour (pause) yeah

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ehm (pause) and do you think it'll be I mean do you think you'll always vote the same way you know it's it's not really

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mm (pause) well with this government in I think I will because it's all con- (pause) everything goes up

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yeah

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except for your wages (laughter)

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mm mm

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I think I'd vote for Labour

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yeah (pause) ehm (pause) do you think you would vote mainly for (pause) eh (pause) you know the party who you think's going to do like the best job

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uh-huh

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or do you think yes (pause) yeah do you think it's it ehm you don't have sort of any particular great sort of belief in the Labour party for instance or

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well (pause) I don't really

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right

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but I just think you know if they want to do the best

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aye you don't what do you what do you think about you know a lot of people well a lot of people that I talk to for instance say that eh (pause) you know they vote say they vote Labour because they're (pause) working class sort of folks or they vote Conservative because they own their own house and this sort of thing you know do you think this is a (pause) sensible way to vote you know or d- (interruption)

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not really I don't think

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eh (pause) do you think you eh (pause) do you think you would usually (pause) like bother to vote you know (interruption) on- (pause) on all occasions

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uh-huh

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I mean you would use your vote fairly (pause) consistently mm mm (pause) eh if we could just eh (pause) go on to talk for a bit about ehm (pause) the thing we're most interested in like you know that's the way you talk and that and what you think about it

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mm-hm

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eh (pause) firstly do you think that ehm (pause) do you think you ever change the way you talk according to (pause) you know like the person you're talking to or any other (interruption) circumstances

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not really (pause) well (pause) not really I don't think so

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mm (pause) ehm do you think the way you're talking now is (pause) ehm you know the same as the way you talk to (pause) like your friends

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oh yes

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when you're at the football match

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mm-hm

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yeah more or less the same

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sometimes you say aye (laughter)

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uh-huh yes

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and I divn't know (laughter)

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mm yes yes

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that's all

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I yeah I wondered whether you know ehm (pause) whether you might have much more (pause) eh broad sort of way of talking for

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I have (laughter)

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for yeah yeah I wondered eh I thought that might be eh (pause) and what about do you think you do you think this is the way you talk to well say your family for instance

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uh-huh

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yeah uh-huh yeah ehm (pause) would you say that eh (pause) you know on a fairly long term basis you had talked more or less the same all during your life you know

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ah I have

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the same now as what you did (interruption) when you were young

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mm-hm

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yeah mm ehm (pause) eh (pause) do you on the whole like to hear people talking in local accents you know do you like Tyneside accent

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well you get a laugh at some of them

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mm yes that's true but

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never really bothered with them

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yeah

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I've never really thought about it and

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yeah you never you never think (pause) well do you ever think eh you know that you disapprove of somebody's accent because it's very broad or something like that

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not really I've never really thought about it really

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no aye do you think that (pause) well let's say do you think that teachers in schools ought to correct the kids about the way they talk

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ah (pause) I think it depends really you know depends on what the parents think first I think (pause) if the parents want them to talk mm properly (pause) it's up to them

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mm-hm yeah well you're I think that you know home has much more is a bigger influence than school like you know but eh did did you find that when when you were at school did did your teachers sort of emphasize this very much you know did they try to (pause) make you talk in a particular way

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well not really you know

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no

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well it at Saltwell senior high school they did

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mm-hm and I mean they used to pull you up for like bad grammar and things like that

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uh-huh not just at that school not anywhere else

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aye not at Hill Heads

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(interruption) no

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no mm yeah (pause) what do you think of ehm you know the ways eh the news readers talk on television when they read the news you know what do you think about that way of speaking you know how do you react to that

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well it's all right you know

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aye

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never really thought about it

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(laughter) you don't eh (pause) do you know anybody personally who talks very like that

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no

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no (pause) I think they're they're pretty rare do you think (pause) if you met somebody you know who who was who talked like sort of I mean Robert Dougal or one of these BBC blokes do you think eh do you think that you would think that he was very snobbish or (pause) mm

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well not really (pause) well in a way I would eh uh-huh

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yeah mm (pause) ehm (pause) a lot of people you know ehm well in in s- in some kinds of schools think that (pause) think that that way of talking you know the BBC way of talking is is the way everybody ought to talk you know and that everybody should do you think it would be a good idea if everybody talked like that

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not really I don't think

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mm mm would you miss sort of (pause) local accents you know if eh

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mm-hm

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yeah mm ehm (pause) eh do you think that eh you know most of the people that you're (pause) friendly with and so on do you find that they talk the same as you on the whole

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yes

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mm do you think that ehm (pause) do you think that if you meet somebody you know eh for the first time let's say and they talk mm and they do talk like you you know do you think that you're more likely to get on with them you know you feel

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uh-huh (pause) you do (pause) just

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

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eh divn't I divn't know really

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very much or

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not really

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I mean (pause) eh (pause) to take a particular example what would you think about (pause) eh what would you think about my accent from listening to it now

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no (pause) (laughter)

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eh

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I don't know that

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yeah I mean (pause) like would you say I came from Tyneside

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not really no

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no

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no mm

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mm (unclear) you're wrong (laughter)

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do you

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mm eh yeah it disturbs me when people say that because I I come from you know I come from Gateshead in fact (interruption) mm yeah

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do you

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yeah but do you I mean do you think it's very different from yours you know do you think I talk very different from you

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not really

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mm

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no not a lot (pause) you talk a little bit but not much you know

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mm yes I would have thought the same like you know (unclear) eh (pause) ehm do you think you could eh (pause) just read that list of words for us please straight down

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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 isn't it

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(unclear)

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but none seven one long holiday room book good maker wafer happy Harry Mary yes better fall which apple television absent realize Newcastle Seahouses method concert descend chocolate explain industry what's that condemn tissue with film

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ta eh ehm now eh I'm going to read out a list of words and eh for each one I would just like to know you know they're all sort of fairly local Tyneside words and I would just like to know firstly if you're familiar with it you know and ehm secondly if you'd actually use it yourself ehm (pause) aside for 'beside' you say 'it's just aside the fire' like

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mm-hm well that's the way I say it (laughter) uh-huh aside the

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eh (pause) bairn little bairn yeah ehm bait

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bait we say

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aye eh bonny

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huh

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bonny

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we (unclear)

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yes you say eh bray

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no

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no you don't talk about braying somebody (unclear)

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oh yes I do

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yes yeah

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bray uh-huh

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bullets

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sweets uh-huh

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mm-hm yes eh clamming

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yes (laughter)

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yes boody

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no

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no do you do you know what it means are you like familiar with it

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no

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no (pause) probably shows something about your age (laughter) you know it's like did you not play with that when you were little broken china and that boody (unclear)

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no

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must be going out of fashion (pause) eh (pause) c- coin

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mm-hm

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coin a corner aye yeah that's cree

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no

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no for a pigeon cree no (pause) eh fettle

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no

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no not like to fettle something

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well sometimes uh-huh sometimes

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mm-hm yes (pause) eh gully

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no

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no do you know what it means

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I've heard of it but I don't know what it means

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like a bread knife or something yeah ehm

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some people says they're going to use that (unclear)

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yes yeah (pause) eh howk

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uh-huh

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yes eh (pause) mense

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pardon

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mense do you say 'it would be more to your mense to get some work done' you never

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mm

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have you ever heard it

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no (laughter)

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no eh parky

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uh-huh

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about your food (interruption) and that

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uh-huh

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eh (pause) eh varnigh

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never heard of it

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have you not it's another old fashioned sort of word for 'very nearly' you know varnigh missed the bus' ehm (pause) what about eh 'to be knooled' mm

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never heard of it

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have you not no to be eh hen pecked you know eh like a husband can knool his wife or vice versa you know eh now eh more or less on the same lines like I'm going to read out ehm this list of sentences and for each one I would just like to know ehm you know if it sounds like a fairly normal sort of sentence to you you know if it sounds like eh (pause) if it sounds like the kind of thing that you might say if the circumstances arose you know what I mean

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mm-hm

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ehm (pause) were you wakened last night when I came in

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(unclear)

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

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yes (laughter)

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yeah eh he never gave us any

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uh-huh (laughter)

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yeah ehm (pause) do you not go there very often

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mm-hm

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ehm they're useless them

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yes (laughter)

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yeah yes (laughter) ehm me and John went to the races on Saturday

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yes

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yes eh (pause) I might could manage it

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uh-huh

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

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uh-huh

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yeah (pause) eh it's ower big to get through there

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uh-huh (laughter)

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yes yeah eh you know my cousin that her husband died

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm (unclear)

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yes it wouldn't crop up for you would it what about ehm eh (pause) with it being such a sunny day we'll go to the park (interruption) something like that (interruption) yeah

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uh-huh

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yeah eh (pause) I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

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(unclear) (unclear)

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if you had a s- yeah (laughter) if you had a son who was old enough (pause) mm (pause) they go to the pictures of a Sunday

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mm-hm (pause) no not really

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no you'd say on a Sunday something like that ehm (pause) excuse me (pause) eh (pause) I was coming home on the train and if I didn't leave my coat lying on the seat

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mm

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no (pause) eh these ones are pretty big to them others

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mm-hm uh-huh

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so it's eh (pause) here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

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not really

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no you don't say like 'here she had done this' no eh (pause) I think we're going to be soon for the picture

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(unclear)

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yeah ehm would you mind stop talking

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uh-huh

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yes eh do you want a cup of tea making (unclear) (pause) yeah

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mm-hm

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ehm you know him that used to work on the railways

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mm-hm

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yeah (pause) eh he happened a nasty accident (pause) no

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mm

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

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yes

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yes eh I wanted for to talk to you about it

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pardon

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I wanted for to talk to you about it

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no

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no eh when did it happen to you

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uh-huh

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yeah eh I've got money belonging him

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uh-huh

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

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uh-huh

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

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yes

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

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yes

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yes eh we've been waiting of a bus

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no

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

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yes

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yeah eh (pause) I don't bother much about the television and that

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well I do (laughter)

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(laughter) yeah

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yes uh-huh

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

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uh-huh

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eh (pause) many people were there there

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what

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many people were there there

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no

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no eh (pause) where did you get it at

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uh-huh

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yes ne- never mind I'll manage but

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uh-huh

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yeah ehm (pause) never the wonder I couldn't get it to work it's not plugged in

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uh-huh

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say never the wonder yeah

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mm-hm

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ehm me and George is going to the town today

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mm-hm

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yeah eh Jack didn't think much to the race

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no

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no eh (pause) all the caravan sites are good and I've stayed on them nearly all

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yes

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yeah eh they'd not seen it

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what

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they'd not seen it no w- eh what do you think you would prefer do you know

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didn't see it

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aye yes eh it's far too long this

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mm-hm

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yeah ehm (pause) how's your wife and family then

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uh-huh

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

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mm

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yes eh (pause) what is it he does for a living

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uh-huh

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yeah eh just light the fire on will you

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uh-huh

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yes eh I'll clout yous both in a minute

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mm-hm

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yes eh how much have they offered we

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huh

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how much have they offered we

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uh-huh

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pass us one of them spanners

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mm

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I've broke a plate I'm afraid

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no

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no what

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just broken (unclear)

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

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uh-huh

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eh he done it all right

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mm-hm

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eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

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oh

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yes eh he give

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I sometimes say (unclear)

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aye yes but you could say forgetten you think

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aye

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he give us a pound for doing it

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mm-hm

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yeah we had went to the coast for the day

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uh-huh

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yes eh (pause) I seen Albert on Tuesday

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mm

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

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mm-hm

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yes eh (pause) that's what happens when you be naughty

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mm-hm

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I'll probably seeing her Saturday

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mm-hm

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yeah (pause) eh (pause) I doubt he'll have to stay in hospital for a long time

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mm

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yeah ehm (interruption) (unclear)

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are you (pause) finished

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yeah ta ehm (pause) you've letten him get away

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uh-huh

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

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yes

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we'll sharp get this done

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mm-hm

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mm he's as Tyneside as what I am

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mm-hm

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yeah eh (pause) you used to sweep the floor and us used to wash the dishes

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sometimes

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sometimes okay eh and eh getting just a little bit more complicated eh do you think you could could give me eh the opposite of eh 'I'll be going there this week' does that make sense

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mm (unclear) (laughter) (pause) (unclear) ask you

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what eh well no I was thinking more of like ehm 'I'll not be going there this week' or 'I won't be going there this week' you know what I mean eh how about the opposite of 'he's got some'

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I haven't got none

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ta good eh again the opposite of 'he's seen that picture'

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saw that picture no I haven't seen that picture

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yeah ta (pause) the opposite of 'you're working late tonight'

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I finished (unclear) (laughter)

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and again the opposite of 'I gave him one'

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ehm (pause) never given us any

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okay ta ehm suppose you went up to somebody in the street and asked for a match what would you s- say

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have you got a light

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yes (unclear) (pause) and could you just sort of finish off this sentence eh I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

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do it tomorrow

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yes ta