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Age Group:

41-50

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Gateshead

Education:

Left school at 14

Occupation:

Cleaner

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Gender:

Female

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

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where was I born in Morrison Street Gateshead

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were you yes

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yes

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

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

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aye

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

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moved here so just the two places

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just the two places

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

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between the two

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yeah

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

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is it

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

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

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

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mm

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you know

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did you find it a very friendly sort of place

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oh yes very much is when everybody gets together

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yes

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

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no

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nothing like that

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done a good few interviews down there you know

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have you

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aye

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ah

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that's right

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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yes

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

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yes have you been down there on holiday

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visiting yes I used to have a brother lived down there

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

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

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(laughter) yes

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

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aye

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in the North East (pause) myself

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yes

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

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

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well I mean my mother was fetched up in Blackhill

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aye

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

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mm-hm

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that's a place I like I visit that

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aye

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

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

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oh it's nice lovely shopping centre

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yes

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nice shopping centre

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

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he was a general labourer

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

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

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(laughter) compliment yourself

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

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

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well it's just rented this one yes

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

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yes

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yeah whereabouts do you work

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the post office

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ehm where wh which one (unclear)

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the telephone exchange

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oh I see in (interruption) Newcastle

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Newcastle Carlyle House

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

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

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

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shop assistant I've always been a shop assistant

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have you

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yeah

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is that what you did when you first left school

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

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

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

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(interruption) did you (interruption) oh

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

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

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

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yes what what time do you start

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

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(laughter) yeah

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I've done a shift by dinnertime nearly

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yes

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

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do you

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mm-hm

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

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when I left school fourteen

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yes

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mm-hm

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

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

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oh I see yes

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uh-huh

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eh

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because you really wanted to help your parents and everything

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

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

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aye

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

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yes

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I would be unhappy in them places you know

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I see

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through them we never bothered

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

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

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

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

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yes

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

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mm

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because you're as good as anybody else

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aye

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doesn't matter what circumstances in life you know

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yeah yes

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

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yeah yeah

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she goes to senior high in August

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that's right up (unclear)

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eh Saltwell senior high

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oh yes

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

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uh-huh

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

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is that eh Avenue Road

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Avenue Road it is Saltwell senior high

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is that eh eh co educational now like is it

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

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

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

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

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oh yes definitely

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yes

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

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(laughter) yes

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no aye

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

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oh I think it's a good thing myself

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do you (unclear)

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

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do they

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

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yes

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

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yes

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where we didn't dare look around

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

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

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yes

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

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yes yes

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

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yeah

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bit more stricter in the way they talk and that

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

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Morrison Street

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Morrison Street

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uh-huh

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

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

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that's true yes

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

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

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

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aye

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and ehm boys I don't think take any notice

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yes

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

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yes

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

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yes

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to improve

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yes

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you know

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are you you're buying a new house

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

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

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

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yes these ones here are coming down aren't they

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no not this one here (unclear) no

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aye

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

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aye

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

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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

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

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

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yes

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

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yes

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

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

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you go through there

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

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

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eh well not the bolt the thing you actually lift

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

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catch do you yeah okay

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

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yeah (laughter)

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the latch actually

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aye

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

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

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

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

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aye which club do you go to

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we go to the Railway Club

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yeah whereabouts is that

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that's down beside Gateshead station

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oh aye yes yeah is it very good

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

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

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

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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eh I like mostly mainly watch American shows I like

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aye

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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aye

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

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aye

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sometimes we watch (interruption) (unclear)

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you don't particularly watch it

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but eh I'm mostly reading

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

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

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aye

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I never get round to it

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like ballroom dancing (interruption) and that

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yes I always wanted to go dancing

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

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

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that's right yes

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

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(laughter)

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

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

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what would I do

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yeah

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buy a beautiful house

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aye

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a really lovely house

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whereabouts

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

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aye

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

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yes

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up you know up that way

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yes

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

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aye

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

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

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not really no it would never t change me no

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no

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I would still have the same thoughts and ideas

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

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

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aye I see yes uh-huh

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

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yes

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

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(unclear) like would you smack them quite often

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

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(laughter)

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

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aye yes

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

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yes

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

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for your wages yes

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she does

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

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which way do I vote Labour socialist mm-hm

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yes y you always vote the same

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always

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yes

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I've never changed my views

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

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

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aye

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

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yes

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

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yes aye

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

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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

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yes

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

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yes

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

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mm-hm

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that was

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yes

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that was the start of the family breaking up you see

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yes

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

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

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

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aye you're right there

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

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mm

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

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no

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because people won't stand for it now

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yes

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where they have done in their time

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mm

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that's my opinion so

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

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

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

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

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excuse me

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

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

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mm-hm

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

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aye

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

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(laughter)

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

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aye

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the way I talked

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yes

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

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yes

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but they could with me

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

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

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does it

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

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aye

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

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

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

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

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that should talk like that

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that would be the broadest people

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

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

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

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yes

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

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aye

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

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yeah yes

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

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

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

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yes I think (interruption) so

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and yet I can't stand my own

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yes it's funny that way (interruption) yeah

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

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I've lived in (unclear)

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

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

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

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

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

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yes

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but eh

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

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

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aye

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it's the personality of the people

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

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

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yes

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it's a sort of a put on accent that

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yes

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

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aye

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

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aye yeah

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

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

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eh wha what he is like or

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yes do you think you would (interruption) sort of

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I think so

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have guess about his job (interruption) for instance

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I think so yes

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the kind of job he (interruption) does

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yes I think so yes

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

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

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n no not not always

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no not always

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

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

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yes (interruption) certainly that's about it

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you know a surprising thing really

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

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

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yes

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

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I'll tell them

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

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do you think I talk like you I mean

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

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

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ta now eh I'm going to read out a list of words that are all sort of fairly local Tyneside words you know and I would just like to know ehm firstly if you're familiar with it you know and secondly if you actually use it yourself

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aside for beside

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pardon

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

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(unclear)

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bairn (pause) yes bait yes ehm bonny

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body

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bonny

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bonny oh yes

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aye ehm bray (pause) to bray somebody

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oh bray yes

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aye yes do you use it

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

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eh bullets

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yes well not m no I (unclear) saying that

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yes

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not normally I I hear it though yes

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eh clamming

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clamming

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yes

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

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boody

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well no but I familiar they're familiar words

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ehm cree

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cree

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mm-hm

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no that's a word I've never used

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but you know what it means though

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I know what it means yes pigeon cree uh-huh

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yeah eh lowe

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no I've never

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no do you know what it means

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lowe

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aye

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no I cannot (interruption) say

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a light or a flame or something a bit old fashioned

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(laughter) what he means is give us a lowe

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give us a lowe that's right

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

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although I've never used it myself

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you have heard it

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oh yes I think eh

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

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

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yes I think that's (interruption)

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

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(unclear)

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

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aye

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oh yeah uh-huh

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eh

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

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

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no I've never used that word

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no

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uh-huh

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(unclear) (laughter)

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eh parky

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yes parky yes I've used that

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uh-huh eh varnigh

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no not (unclear) not that one

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you've heard it though

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

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eh knooled to be knooled

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what did you say

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knooled

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

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

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mm-hm

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

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eh that sounds all right yes

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yes I mean would you

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m mm

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eh I was still a bed when you called this morning

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oh yes I suppose I would uh-huh

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ehm he never gave us any

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never give us it huh

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yes

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mm

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eh do you not go there very often

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I would say that yes

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eh they're useless them

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I would say that yes

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me and John went to the races on Saturday

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

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mm

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

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(laughter) aye I might could manage it

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I could say that yes

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aye

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uh-huh

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

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I would say that I think uh-huh

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ehm it's ower big to get through there

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

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eh you know my cousin that her husband died

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

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

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with the what

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

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with the wife being what

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ill

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being ill I had to stay in and look after her

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

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

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I could say that uh-huh

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they go to the pictures of a Sunday

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yes uh-huh

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

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well I could say that uh-huh uh-huh

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mm these ones are pretty big to them others

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uh-huh yes

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eh here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

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yes I would say that

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

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yes I would say that

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yeah mm

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or film I would say it depends uh-huh

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eh would you mind stop talking

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oh yes yes I've said that

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eh do you want a cup of tea making

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yes

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

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uh-huh yes

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eh he happened a nasty accident

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yes

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

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yes

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I wanted for to talk to you about it

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uh-huh

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eh when did it happen you

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uh-huh

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

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yes

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

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oh yes I'd probably say that like

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

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mm-hm

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

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yes (laughter)

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yes eh we've been waiting of a bus

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yes I would say that

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

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yes I could say that

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I don't bother much about the television and that

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well I might say that yes sounds all right

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

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

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yes I mean yes eh many people were there there

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no I don't think I would say that

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no would you say how many people

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not many people there

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ah yeah I see eh where did you get it at

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I've said I would say that uh-huh

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yes eh never mind I'll manage but

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yes

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

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the window

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no the wonder

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ah you've got to be deaf no the wonder

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no the wonder

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oh no the wonder no no I never say

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uh-huh would you say no wonder do you

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

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

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

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yes eh jack didn't think much to the race

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Jack didn't think much of the race

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

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well I might say that yes

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mm-hm yeah they'd not seen it

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not seen it uh-huh

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eh it's far too long this

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I could say that aye

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yes eh how's your wife and family then

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mm-hm

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

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uh-huh

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yeah

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uh-huh

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what is it he does for a living

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what is what

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what is it he does for a living

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my husband

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no

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

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just light the fire on will you

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uh-huh I've said that

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

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no

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no

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no

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eh

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I'll smack you

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yes

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uh-huh

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

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I could say that yeah

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aye eh pass us one of them spanners

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yes mm-hm

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yes eh I've broke a plate

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yes

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

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yes

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yes eh (pause) he done it all right

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yes

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mm-hm eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

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uh-huh

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yeah ehm he give us a pound for doing it

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yes

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

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yes

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yeah ehm (pause) I seen Albert on Tuesday

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yes

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

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yes I would say that mm-hm

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yeah eh that's what happens when you be naughty

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yes

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

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yes

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

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yes

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mm eh you've letten him get away

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uh-huh

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

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yes

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yeah eh we'll sharp get this done

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yes

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

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(laughter) yes (laughter)

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

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yes uh-huh

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

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the opposite

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the opposite mm-hm

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

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

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I will go there this week something like that

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oh eh well we will be going there this week

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

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I'll not be going there this week

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

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he's got to eh well he has to

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yes eh the opposite of he's seen that picture

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

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yes eh the opposite of you're working late tonight

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you're not working tonight

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yes ta ehm again the opposite of I gave him one

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I didn't give him one

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

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

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

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today

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yes ta