right

T L S G thirty three

ta (pause) ehm (pause) here are some census type questions ehm can you tell us eh where you were born please

yeah I was born in Gateshead

whereabouts

ehm Worcester Street

aye (pause) ehm and eh where else you've lived in for roughly what period you know like how long did you stay there for instance

eh we moved from there when I were about three year old

aye

then we went up to Wrekenton

aye

there for about fourteen year (pause) then we moved to ehm (unclear) that's the new (unclear) estates

oh aye

and from there we went down (unclear) I got married (interruption) came down here

I see yes aye (pause) ehm (pause) and eh so you've never really ehm been away from Tyneside for very long periods

no just on holiday

aye (pause) ehm (pause) w now were your pare parents born in Gateshead as well

yes

both

both of them

ehm (pause) and they had they were sort of local people were they they had lived in Gateshead for a long time when you were born

yeah they'd always been here

aye ehm (pause) and eh (pause) could you tell us eh what were your father's occupation was please

yeah he's a ehm (pause) lorry driver

ta (pause) ehm (pause) and eh (pause) you've never lived anywhere else than Gateshead like but do you like living here you know do you think it's a (interruption) (unclear) place to live

ehm (pause) what in Gateshead itself (interruption) or this area

aye (pause) well Gateshead itself (unclear)

oh Gateshead's all right

aye (pause) you wouldn't say (unclear) in Newcastle for instance

no (pause) not Newcastle (pause) (interruption) not that side of the water (laughter)

you mean (pause) aye you mean you just prefer this side (unclear) yeah ehm (pause) what about eh anywhere else in the country would you do you think you'd like to live anywhere else in the country

oh I wouldn't mind living down eh Southport somewhere like that

in Southport aye have you been down there on holiday like

yeah we've had a couple of years down there (interruption) holidays

aye (pause) aye I've been I I used to go to school there there once upon a time it's quite nice (unclear) (pause) eh (pause) what about eh anywhere else in Gateshead do you would you prefer to live somewhere else in Gateshead or this area

I'd prefer to live somewhere else

mm

somewhere well somewhere (unclear) better conditions for living like (unclear)

aye are you are you expecting to be moved out of Gateshead

yeah

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) can you tell us which age group on the card you belong to please just say the letter

B

ta ehm (pause) and eh (pause) you've you're married recently

yes (pause) been married about a year (pause) we we're just over the eh

no thanks no ta ehm (pause) is your your wife from eh Gateshead as well

yes

aye eh (pause) but you've got no children

no not yet

eh (pause) final card can you say how you're occupying this house again just say the letter

B

ta (pause) ehm can you tell us eh wha what job you're doing (pause) the moment

yeah I'm an engraver

an engraver

yep

what do you engrave

oh everything well all sorts of name plates you know

oh I see (unclear) in eh metal and that

ehm well (pause) (unclear) brass copper

aye

eh bronze (pause) (unclear) plastics (unclear)

yeah whereabouts do you work like

I work down at the trading estate (pause) (interruption) Thews

aye (pause) where

Edward H Thew

aye (unclear) I di I I didn't know that factory was there like I I've (interruption)

it's on eh (pause) corner of First Avenue and ehm (pause) Queensway

aye

it's not far from Sigmund Pumps

yeah (pause) that is I've worked on the trading estate myself like quite a lot and I've never (laughter) I don't even notice it (interruption) (unclear)

(laughter) well it's been taken over by Van de Veldes (unclear)

oh aye the office mach eh equipment (unclear)

yep that's the one

ehm and eh can you tell us you know ehm what the job involves like and what you you know exactly what you do

eh well it's machine engraving I do like

yeah

just consists of setting the machine up getting your the right type you know and

aye

whichever size letter the customer requires

aye

you just give them that

and eh is (unclear) ehm is the job you're did you eh serve an apprenticeship for it or

yeah

aye

five year

(unclear) ehm (pause) would you say that eh that you enjoyed this job

well it's got its interesting moments but

mm-hm

well it's like every other job you get sick of it sometimes

aye (pause) if eh is there anything else you can think of that you would rather do you know (pause) in particular

yeah win the pools and

(laughter)

have a couple of years off (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear) eh (pause) (unclear) and what what other jobs have you done or (unclear) (interruption) you've always worked at this aye

no I've always worked always worked in this one

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) this a question that I'm I'm not going to ask you but eh you know I'd just like to have your attitude on it if eh if I asked you how much money you made would you tell us

no

no

(laughter)

no that's fine ehm

takes us all my time to get in and give it to the h p people and that sort of (unclear) (laughter)

aye (laughter) (pause) ehm (pause) now eh (pause) I'd like to ask you ehm for some eh some words that you might use in various situations you know so eh if you could just eh say what what comes natuarally to you you know what what occurs to you ehm (pause) can you think of the word you might use for somebody who's eh ehm (pause) (laughter)

(unclear)

who's eh got loads of (unclear) or who thinks he can get away with anything you know (pause) he's a (unclear)

(unclear) (laughter)

ehm ehm if somebody's had too much to drink he's

pissed (laughter)

ta eh (pause) if something was eh stacked away on a high shelf somewhere could you say that it was up a height

eh

would you use that expression

eh probably would (unclear)

mm eh could you say about a tool that you were using eh this'll do the job clever

aye probably do

(unclear) but you wouldn't say it'll do it clever

no

no ehm (pause) eh what do you call ehm the thing that the bricklayers or labourer carries eh the bricks in over his shoulder

a hod

ta (pause) eh (pause) eh what age were you when you left school fifteen

fifteen

aye eh (pause) were you ehm (pause) were you glad to leave school or not

aye not keen (laughter) (unclear) (laughter)

aye which school did you go to

I went to Greenwell (unclear)

aye (pause) eh you haven't had any eh education since

no

ehm (pause) what would you say eh (pause) do you think that your education's been worth very much to you in eh in your job for instance

well (pause) regards English and spelling if it wasn't for the likes of spelling and whatever you know

(unclear)

and eh well arithmetic

yes

you need that for the likes of ehm measurements

aye (pause) and what about ehm (pause) otherwise you know in you know in in any other ways would you say (unclear)

well geography's got nothing to do with (laughter)

any use to you

history's got nothing to do with it

no

(unclear)

but eh outside work you know I mean would would you say your education's ever meant anything to you (unclear)

ehm (pause) well odd things when you're discussing things you know

aye

(unclear) we often get a get friends down here like

yeah

often discuss all sorts of subjects like you know

mm

sometimes you what you've learnt at a school comes back to you then you know

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) do you think that eh (pause) ehm (pause) you know when (unclear) like when you've got children of your own and that do you think that eh you'll consider education to be important for them

ah well they'll have to go to school

aye but would you s what age would you say that you know you would you would like them to leave school I mean would you would you (interruption) (unclear)

(unclear) if they want to stay on they can stay on (pause) I mead eh (pause) I was n I was never (pause) pushed to sort of go to work so I wouldn't push my kids to go (unclear)

mm

if I thought they were (pause) they were showing signs of (pause) ehm

mm

being really intelligent or anything like that

mm (pause) eh (pause) eh taking you back even further than your education can (unclear) when you were eh a little lad you know between five and twelve or something you were living (pause) where

ehm (pause) I (unclear) wey I was at Wrekenton then

mm-hm aye eh do you think it was eh like a good place to live from your point of view as a kid you know like

well I was there for fourteen year so (laughter) I did but that was the only place I really knew as a (interruption) lad like (pause) so I couldn't really (pause) judge

mm-hm (pause) aye

being at that age when you've got your friends you know you

aye

you never think of the the area that as a place (interruption) like (unclear)

aye (pause) eh can you remember ehm any of the games that you used to play or ehm things that you used to do as a kid you know I mean can you tell us for instance how to play any of the games that you used to play

eh (laughter) well (pause) (unclear) ehm a few games where you used to (pause) have a number each you know (unclear) if your number was called you had to race you know

aye yeah (unclear)

someone that didn't know what number you had you know (unclear)

aye

call some numbers out

uh-huh

and ehm you had to race around the street or something like that

aye (pause) eh (pause) what do you call ehm a game where eh one of the players eh has to chase the others to try and touch them

ah (pause) tuggy (laughter)

ta and eh what do you say about the person who's got to chase

they're on

ta (pause) ehm (pause) what do you say when you eh when you want to call a halt to the game for some reason

stop

do you yeah ta eh (pause) and ehm what do you call a game where you throw a ball to a batsman and if you catch him out three times you get the bat

oh (pause) in (laughter)

do you aye (unclear) ehm (pause) now ehm (pause) some questions about the house eh g going through all the rooms in the house could you t tell us what you call each room

the (pause) bedroom kitchen scullery

ta eh (pause) and eh but to get out the back door you have to lift the

(unclear) lift the sneck

ta ehm (pause) what do you call the thing that eh that your wife sweeps the floor with when she does it by hand if she does

(unclear) it's the brush

ta what do you call it by the way a brush

(unclear)

ta ehm (pause) and eh oh you haven't got a you you haven't got a coal fire if you if you had a coal fire what would you call the thing that you stand in front of it to get it going

bleezer

and you can talk about bleezing the fire up can you

yep

ehm (pause) what do you call eh (pause) ehm (pause) cleaning the plates and things after a meal

washing up

ta eh (pause) can you think of a word you might use for ehm when somebody's ehm ill and very weak and drowsy and that you would say he's

bad

ta eh could you say something like ehm (pause) after being so well all his life he took badly with his illness does that sound normal

no (pause) that didn't sound normal

ehm (pause) can you tell us ehm how you eh spend your spare time and that you know in evenings and weekends

well watching the television (pause) eh usually on a Saturday afternoon we'll visit (pause) eh or usually on Sunday rather we'll visit eh her mam or my mam you know

aye

but eh (pause) during the week we sometimes go out at night you know

aye

just different places (pause) we we've never got anything really arranged you know

aye (unclear) eh you eh watch the television a canny bit do you

yeah we have been recently like you know

what eh what kind of programmes

well any anything eh that might be a bit creepy or something like that you know

mm-hm do you think that eh the standard of television programmes is good or do you think that they could be better in any way like

I think they could be better

aye what

(unclear)

what do you object to what sort of things do you not like

well you get these sort of things like Family At War drag on and drag on (interruption) Coronation Street drags on (unclear)

aye (pause) ehm (pause) eh do you know the ehm the people around here like well you know the people in this street and so on do you

well there's only (pause) the lad next door that I have a bit

aye

word to a word with like you know

yeah

(unclear) very rare we see anybody you know

yeah you don't eh I mean you don't go out very much with the people near here

well well we divn't go out with them round here at all really

no and eh (pause) but would you say that ehm (pause) you know your eh friends and acquaintances sort of live elsewhere like or

oh aye definitely (laughter)

aye ehm do you think (pause) (unclear) presumably eh you wouldn't miss this area very much if you had to leave it

that's right (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear) predict the answer eh (pause) do you think that if you ehm if you got the offer of a a a slightly better paid job somewhere else in the country do you think you would go

I would move (laughter) that's money (laughter)

aye (pause) ehm (pause) does does your wife work

yes

aye (pause) (unclear) you've like eh you've no objection to the woman of the house working (unclear)

no well I mean eh (pause) she wants to work (interruption) and eh (pause) she likes her job

mm-hm (pause) aye

(unclear) extra cash is always a help when (interruption) you're first married you know

aye (pause) what do you do by the way

(unclear) receptionist

aye (pause) ehm (pause) now eh if we could talk a bit about eh what we are most interested in like that's eh you know the way you talk and what you think about the way people talk and this sort of thing do you think that ehm (pause) you ever change the way you speak according to the people you're speaking to and (interruption) (unclear)

yeah I think that sometimes you do you know ehm (pause) likes of you're if you go into a shop anywhere you know (interruption) if you're away from home or (unclear) down London (pause) you know

aye (pause) aye

you go and you start speaking the way you normally speak you know (unclear)

aye

I beg your pardon you know (laughter)

(laughter) yeah (pause) aye (pause) eh I mean do you think eh do you think you're talking normally now or not

eh I think I'm talking the way I normally talk (unclear)

(unclear) ehm (pause) do you ehm what eh what opinions do you have about eh about local accents do you like to hear people talking in in their local accents

yeah I've got nothing against accent

aye I mean say (interruption)

wey I've got one myself so (laughter)

aye and if if if you meet somebody and and he talks ehm more or less like you you know do you think that eh (pause) you're sort of more likely to get on with him or s or (unclear)

no well I mean (interruption)

do you feel more at home with him or (unclear)

as long as I I mean (unclear) I can more or less get on with most people you know

aye

unless they do something to annoy us you know

aye

but I mean otherwise I get on with anybody it doesn't matter what accent they've got

aye (pause) ehm (pause) so eh other accents of England and so on like you know Liverpool and that do you you don't mind them

I divn't mind them

yeah

those are the only ones you notice really (unclear) because eh (pause) you never notice a Geordie accent

aye

with living up here

(unclear) there's none that eh there's none that you particularly dislike

ehm (pause) I'd I'm not keen on the Australian accent

aye (pause) ehm (pause) eh if you can ehm think of the way eh the newsreaders speak on television you know when they're (unclear) when they're reading the news out if you think of that sort of for instance do you ehm do you like that way of talking or not

well it's a sort of (pause) way of talking well I think everybody in the country can understand

aye

there's nobody sort of using

aye

slang words (pause) that (pause) maybes we would understand but other peoples in another (interruption) part of the country wouldn't yeah

yeah (pause) mm (pause) so y you you approve of that for you know public speaking like that

yes

aye ehm (pause) and you would you approve or not if eh as they sometimes do on radio Newcastle read out the news in in eh a local accent

oh well I mean it's a local

aye

a local thing isn't I mean

as long as it could be understood you would say (interruption) (unclear) approve of it

yeah

aye (pause) eh (pause) now eh (unclear) a question that most people find difficult really (unclear) what ehm what kind of things do you think that you can tell from the way somebody talks

well eh (pause) in some cases you can tell what (pause) w well maybes what sort of person you know (interruption) as regards ehm whether they're a hard case or (interruption) whether they're (pause) really a sort of person that's easy going you know

(interruption) aye (interruption) (unclear) aye (pause) what about ehm do you think that you would eh (pause) be able to guess anything about eh the kind of job they do or how much money they make for instance

no I don't think so I mean if eh somebody's (pause) got the sort of job where they're they're maybes well up in an office or something like that get (interruption) good money

aye aye

naturally their Geordie accent's (interruption) starting to go a bit because they're

aye (pause) yeah

they're more or less eh altering their dialect for to (interruption) get on

aye (pause) (unclear) so you can tell that at least that at that level like (interruption) (unclear)

at that level yeah

eh (pause) when you're eh (pause) in other parts of the country people can people normally tell you come from Tyneside

yes

yeah and ehm (pause) on Tyneside elsewhere on Tyneside can people ever tell that you come from Gateshead

eh (pause) there's only once that I've eh I've eh really noticed it you know

aye

wey not noticed somebody's said that I'm (unclear) from Gateshead like

aye

(unclear)

it's not very common but it does happen occasionally I've heard (unclear) (pause) eh (pause) now (pause) can you read eh that list of words for us please straight down from top to bottom fairly quickly

find mind fly bill well men head back farm hall daughter down take straight cold alone poor fire four tower path after build gate year me field been new moon school revolution but none seven one long holiday room book good walker worker happy Harry Mary yet better something forward with which apple tissue television absent release eh revise Newcastle Seahouses method concert descend chocolate explain industry condemn

ehm now eh I'm going to eh read out a list of words and I want to know ehm for each one eh if you know what it means and secondly ehm if you hear it used fairly commonly and thirdly if you use it yourself right ehm (pause) eh ahint meaning 'behind'

ahint I've heard that one before

mm but you don't think you use it yourself

I ehm well I've used it when I've been carrying on you know

aye aye ehm (pause) bairn

bairn I've used that before

(unclear)

(unclear) I've often heard it used

right ehm bait

yes I use that one a lot

(unclear) beck

beck I'm not sure what that one means

(unclear) a little stream it's not very common these days eh bonny

oh I've used that before

(unclear) eh bray

bray (unclear)

aye

well I haven't eh I well I don't think I've used that one but I know what it means

aye when you hear it

I've heard it

aye eh bullets

yes

you use it

eh well (pause) I that's another one I've used in carry on

aye

but I mean eh I have heard it used a lot

aye eh boody

boody eh well I've heard it

aye (interruption) but you don't use it

but I haven't used it

ehm clarts

I used to use that one when I was (unclear)

aye

never have much occasion to using it now (laughter)

(laughter) eh coin to coin a corner

oh I've used that one like many a time

aye eh that's a normal word is it I mean

well ehm (pause) well I've often used it you know not thinking you know where I've been talking (unclear)

aye

normally if I'm talking to anybody I'd try and (pause) I'd try and say turn the corner (interruption) or something like that (unclear)

aye I see aye ehm cree

cree well that's a word I don't often use it (interruption) (unclear) nothing to do with (unclear)

aye (pause) aye

yeah (pause) yeah I've heard (interruption) it used (unclear)

but you do use it (interruption) (unclear)

yeah

dunch

yeah I've used that one before

mm eh dwalm

dwalm (unclear) not sure about that one

do you know what it means

no

(unclear) don't think anybody anybody actually but eh fettle

oh aye I've used that one before

eh in what in what meaning

well if somebody's well you know say (unclear) (interruption) canny fettle you know

aye (pause) what about eh to fettle something

pardon

what about to fettle something this will fettle it or (interruption) (unclear) fettle (unclear)

oh aye use them

use that as well

(unclear)

ehm (pause) eh (unclear)

no

eh gully

eh I've used that for the knife

aye

well the bread knife or something

(unclear) eh howk

howk is to poke right (interruption) I've used that one before

aye (pause) eh hoy

hoy yeah I've used that one before

ken

pardon

ken

ken

to know

ah no

no

to me that's more Scottish than Geordie (laughter)

aye you don't hear it round here do you not

no not often

aye eh kep

kep to catch (laughter) yeah I've used that one

aye eh lowe

lowe no

no parky about your food

oh that's often being used that one (laughter)

eh stot

yeah

varnigh

no

no ehm (pause) now eh I'm going to read out eh this list of sentences and eh I want to know (pause) ehm whether it sounds like a normal thing for you to say you know ehm not whether you think it's right or not ehm but just you know whether it sounds okay you know whether it sounds like the kind of thing you might say if the circumstances arose right so you you should get the idea I think as we go along ehm (pause) eh were you wakened last night when I came in

no

it's not normal ehm I was still a bed when you called this morning

ehm yeah

yeah ehm he never gave us any

yeah

yeah ehm do you not like Chinese food it's not a question but is it all right

ehm yeah

yeah eh they're useless them

yep

eh (pause) me and John went to the races on Saturday

no

no eh (pause) it's me and him's last day

no

no eh I might could manage it

yes

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

yep

it's ower big to get through there

yeah

(unclear) eh you know my cousin that her husband died

no

no ehm with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her

yep

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

no

no eh do you want out meaning do you want to be out

yeah

yeah eh to go to the pictures of a Sunday

yep

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

no

no ehm these ones are pretty big to them others

yeah

ehm here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

no

no eh I think we're going to be soon for the picture

yeah

would you mind stop talking

no

no ehm do you want a cup of tea making

yep

(unclear) eh you know him that used to work on the railways

no

no ehm he happened a nasty accident

no

no eh I'll put the kettle on for to make some tea

(unclear)

(unclear) eh I wanted for to talk to you about it

mm no

no eh (pause) when did it happen you

yeah

mm (pause) ehm I've got money belonging him

yeah

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

yeah

(unclear) ehm I'm going to get some wool for our Pamela a jumper

yeah

eh (pause) it's all right for you you're used with it

yeah

(unclear) ehm we've been waiting of a bus

no

no ehm (pause) I think they're going to give him the job permanent

yeah

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

yeah

eh (pause) there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought

(unclear)

many people were there there

what could you repeat that one (laughter)

many people were there there

yeah

yeah ehm where did you get it at

yeah

eh never mind I'll manage but

mm-hm

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

no

(unclear) there's something wrong with no the wonder is there ehm (pause) me and George is going to the town today

yeah

(unclear) eh Jack didn't think much to the race

no I wouldn't (unclear)

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

no

no eh had they seen it no they'd not seen it

no

no ehm my coat's too long this

no (laughter)

I wouldn't use that one either (laughter)

(laughter)

eh (pause) how's your wife and family then

yeah

yeah ehm Joe can't come tomorrow being as he's working late

yeah

yeah ehm what is it he does for a living

yeah

(unclear) he wants his wages paid immediately

no

no ehm there just light the fire on will you

yeah

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

yeah

eh how much have they offered we

yeah

eh pass us one of them spanners

yeah

I've broke a plate I'm afraid

no

no ehm I come this morning but you weren't in

yeah

eh he done it all right

(unclear)

eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

yeah

he give us a pound for doing it

yeah

ehm we had went to the coast for the day

yeah

I seen Albert on Tuesday

yeah

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

yeah

eh that's what happens when you be naughty

yeah

ehm I'll probably see him a Saturday

yeah

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

yeah

eh you've letten him get away

yeah

ehm my mother's keep coming in to see us

yeah

mm (pause) ehm could you give us the eh the (unclear) could you give us the opposite of I'll be going there this week

the opposite ehm I won't be going there this week

thanks ehm and again the opposite of he's got some

he's got none (laughter)

ta eh and eh the opposite of he's seen that picture

he hasn't seen that picture

yeah eh and again the opposite of you're working late tonight

ehm could you repeat that one please

the opposite of you're working late tonight

you're not working late tonight

ta eh (pause) and the opposite of I gave him one

didn't give him one

ta ehm eh imagine eh that you went up to somebody in the street to ask him for a a a match eh what would you what would you normally say

got a light (unclear)

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

today

ta (unclear) (pause) quite a bit of tape left there do you want to go on talking

no I'm not very bothered like (laughter) if you've got any questions I'll answer them