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Age Group:

41-50

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Gateshead

Education:

Left school at 14

Occupation:

Housewife (previously Sewing Machinist and Shop Assistant)

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Gender:

Female

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T L S G five five

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I was born in Bronte Street Gateshead

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yes Sunderland Road

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Sunderland off Sunderland Road

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yes

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uh-huh

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

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ehm I was there for thirteen year

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aye

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then I went to ehm Prince Consort Road

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aye

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now I have to add up here

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(laughter)

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thirteen (pause) about fourteen year then I got married

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then you've been here since then aye ehm what did you think of eh those various places as you know as places to live in which did you like best

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well as a child off Sunderland Road I think you mixed in more because the houses were terraced

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aye yes

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you know and then Prince Consort Road the people seemed to eh keep to theirselves more you know

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yes

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you didn't mix in so much nice mind nice locality

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yes yeah I used to live in eh

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mm-hm

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Claremont North Avenue (unclear)

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did you

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yeah aye

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off Coatsworth Road mm-hm

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and what's what's this area like for sort of neighbourliness you know do you think

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well this block it's very quiet because the next houses they're flats for old people

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aye

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they're not family (interruption) houses you see

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aye yes

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there's only like eh mind I have two daughters well they're both out all day

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yes

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but the next block's a family block which is very noisy

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yes

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but we d don't mix in much you know

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you don't?

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just keep eh (pause) to ourselves

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yes you don't sort of know everybody on the block then

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well I know them all but eh I'm not a one for running in and out (interruption) you know

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aye aye I see what you mean ehm and what do you think of eh Gateshead as a place to live in you know compared with Newcastle for instance would you would you ever (interruption) move to Newcastle

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I would never fancy Newcastle no I don't know why but ehm I would rather be in Gateshead

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aye just really because you were born here (interruption) I suppose

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I think so uh-huh

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do you think you'll stay here for the rest of your life

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yes it's quite nice here especially here because there's no houses opposite

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aye

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you know it's nice and quiet

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yes eh and then ehm what do you think about eh Tyneside as a place to live you know I mean do you think Tynesiders are very different from o people from other parts of the country

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well I haven't been very far really I haven't had the money to get very far and apart from that you know I think it's just what you're used to

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yeah you've never been away from (interruption) Tyneside very much at all

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no no not at all

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mm eh whereabouts eh were your parents born please were they Gateshead

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ehm (pause) my mother was born in Saltmeadows Gateshead my father was born in Byker

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uh-huh

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I think round about is there a Commercial Road

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yes that rings a bell (interruption) yes yes

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along there mm-hm

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and eh what what was your father's occupation

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blacksmith blacksmith striker mm-hm

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ehm could you tell us please eh which age group you fall into on that card if you could just say the letter

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D

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ta and eh on what basis you occupy this house presumably C

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well it'll be C (interruption) mm-hm

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C is it yeah eh do you have any children by the way

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two two girls one's ehm thirteen year old and the other one's nineteen year old

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yeah yes and eh what where what do they do your youngest youngest (interruption) daughter's still at school

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well my the youngest daughter's at Sunderland Saint Anthony's convent you know

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ah yes

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the grammar school

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yes

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and the oldest one she's eh works for the blood donor she's a (interruption) (unclear)

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yes and eh

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she went to La Sagesse before she got (pause) this job

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oh I see yes eh and eh what does your husband do

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telephonist at the Queen Elizabeth hospital

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I see yeah and does he come from Tyneside as well

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yes mm-hm

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where was he born

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Felling

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yes

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Wellington Street Felling

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eh you eh I presume you don't work at the moment

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no

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eh

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that's how I'm poor you see (interruption) (laughter)

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(laughter) eh could you tell us eh what what jobs you have done in your life you know what did you do when you first left school

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mm-hm eh I was a sewing machinist on a eyelet machine that was ehm putting eyelet holes in eider downs for the CWS Pelaw

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ah yeah

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then I went on to the trading estate the same kind of work

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yes

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and then a few year ago I went as a shop assistant for the store

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in the Co op were you

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uh-huh

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whereabouts did you work

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oh you were all over because we were on the bakery we had a site in each of the stores you know and we used to get moved around eh the Leam estate I've been on Saltwell Road Eastbourne Avenue Beacon Lough I think I've been in nearly all of them

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mm-hm eh (pause) which eh which of those jobs did you enjoy best

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being a shop assistant

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yes just (interruption) (unclear)

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I think meeting people and eh (pause) I used to be very soft you know if I got a thing that I wasn't suited I would keep it but when I was a shop assistant people used to bring the least thing back to you and it changed me so now I do that (laughter) which I wouldn't have dares do before hand

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(laughter) yes yes it's always complainers and mm (pause) eh how old were you when you left school please

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fourteen

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were you eh do you eh do you think you were glad to leave school or not

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pardon

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do you think you were glad to leave school or not

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well I don't know I liked school I always liked school mm-hm

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yes eh and ehm y have you had any further education of any kind since you left school

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oh no

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no

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haven't had the brains (laughter)

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(unclear) eh would you say you know looking back on your education would you say that it had been worth very much to you in your life since you left

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well I don't think so no

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n no would you say you had more or less put it behind you like

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mm-hm

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yes mm

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I think it's your upbringing at home in those days it can it's you know very strict upbringing I had but at the same time I think it makes you nervous at school you know

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mm-hm yes mm do you think education's improved very much since you went to school you know

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oh yes I'm left behind now with my two daughters I haven't a clue (laughter)

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mm and eh do you think it's eh that education's pretty important for children nowadays I mean you know would you advise like your children to stay on at school if they po possibly could

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yes I would advise them to they're getting a better chance than likes we ever got

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mm-hm yes yes do you think there's anything wrong with schools these days

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oh not a thing

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not you don't?

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no

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you don't not even eh the state of discipline in them for instance

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well I'm going by eh my own children

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aye

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they don't need discipline at school they get it so much at home they've had it so much at home but at the same time mind it made them soft with other children you know what I mean

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mm-hm

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I brought them up the way I was brought up myself

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yes

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well when they had to go to school they know the wrong things that they hadn't got to do well others just go ahead they don't think and I I still think it makes them that bit nervous as well

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mm-hm

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but I can take them anywhere (unclear)

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yes

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but the children of today mind they don't get disciplined but I think it's their home and their background that counts before school

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yes more than the schools

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mm-hm more than school

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yes

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if you're disciplined at home you don't need so much at school

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mm-hm that's true yeah this eh this area has a bit of a reputation for hooliganism do you think is it is it true

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oh I think it's more so over (unclear) Springwell

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yes

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I don't think it's so much Wrekenton mind it's more Aycliffe Avenue and these places mm-hm

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aye yes I've I've heard that from people as well yes

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uh-huh and of course they stray you know they come down this part but they don't belong here

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yes ehm when you were eh fairly young yourself you know when you were under twelve say you were living on s in eh (interruption) Sunderland Road in Bronte Street yes eh did you think that was a good place to live from your point of view as a child then you know did you enjoy your childhood there would you say (interruption)

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(interruption) Bronte Street (interruption) well I enjoyed my childhood

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yes

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and at the same time I don't know we didn't seem advanced like the children of today having to pick and choose we just got along with it didn't you

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mm-hm

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you had no say in the matter and you would never have thought of saying it you might get a clip (laughter)

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yes do you eh can you remember any of the games you used to play or things you used to do then you know what sort of games did you play

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ehm (pause) well we played cannon with the tin block putting sticks on and throwing the ball and knocking the sticks off you know

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uh-huh yes

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we played hot rice in the street

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uh-huh yes

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and eh of course we used to put eh rope on lampposts and have a swing

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oh yes yes very clever that (unclear) (laughter) eh what did you used a call eh a game where one of the children has to chase the others to try to touch them

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eh relievo we (interruption) used to call it

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no I was thinking y yeah I used to play that as well

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but some say long string o misery but (interruption) we didn't

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aye yeah

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yes

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it was tiggy

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I yes I was (interruption) on I was just thinking of what I

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tiggy aye

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tiggy

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what I used to call tuggy

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tuggy oh (interruption) we (unclear) didn't

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tuggy or tiggy

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ours was long string o misery or relievo

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(unclear) tiggy you had to run and touch them yes I remember that one

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in a yeah in a game like that what do you say about the person who's eh who has to chase

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well I think they were only too glad to you know run hard and

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did you say you're on if it was their turn to (interruption) you know

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oh yes did say you're on aye

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yes yes eh and what did you used to say when you wanted to call a halt in a game for some reason you know if you eh did you used to cross your fingers and say

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ah eh squish or squash or something can't remember

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skinchers

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skinchers I knew it was an s (laughter) yes skinchers (laughter) (unclear)

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skinchers that's going back

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what did you used to call eh the glass things that boys flick along the ground

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oh yes glass allies

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aye yes

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marbles glass allies (laughter)

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ehm again eh on the line of what words you use for things could you tell us please just what you call each of the rooms in this house what your normal word is for each room

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well this is the living room

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mm-hm

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the kitchenette

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yes

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the back bedroom the front bedroom

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yes

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the bathroom and the toilet that's the lot

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yes and what about

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the hallway

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the hallway yes yes yes

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mm-hm

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eh and ehm you know on a on an old back door to get out of it you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

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the snib or the

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you call it a snib do you

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mm-hm the snib or the latch something like that

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yes

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you forget these little things

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aye you haven't got a back door that you have to do that with now

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no you don't turn the knob (unclear) (laughter)

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eh and eh again if you had a coal fire what do you call the thing you stand in front of it to get it going

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the blazer

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ta and what do you call ehm cleaning the plates and things after a meal

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washing the dishes

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ta eh (pause) could you tell us please eh what sort of things you like to do in your spare time you know like evenings and weekends and so on assuming that you've got any spare time

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oh I've got plenty ehm I have a game of bingo round the church

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yes

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I like a game of bingo I like to be out in the garden as well

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oh yes yes

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mm-hm

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eh

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I used to love dancing loved it but eh my husband thinks we're too old (laughter) it's him that's old I could still go but na that's out now

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(laughter) aye yes would you say eh how many nights a week do you go out do you usually stay in or go out

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mm-hm I go out on a Sunday a Wednesday and a Saturday for sure

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yes

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then ehm (pause) my husband works shift work now if it's his weekend off we generally have a Sunday or a Monday and then if he's six till two I go out on a Thursday pay night

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oh I see yes yes

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those are little extras (unclear)

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aye eh when when you stay in do you watch television very much

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well I watch it uh-huh

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yes is there anything ehm would you say it was usually on all the time when you're in

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well most of the time uh-huh

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yes

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we don't have late nights mind never see a late night film never

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no

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and if there's anything on that eh you know is suggestive my husband puts it straight off it's not allowed on

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yes eh is there any anything that you particularly like on television you know what sort of programmes do you like to watch

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I liked Henry the Eighth I followed that

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oh aye aye

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I didn't know a thing about it mind when I was younger

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(laughter)

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this was my first I think and I think it was the girls you know they were interested and of course we grew interested things like that and eh I like Des O'Connor and Max Bygraves because they've got happy a happy outlook on life somehow (laughter)

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(laughter)

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so would I if had their money (laughter)

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(laughter)

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(laughter) ehm are there any things that eh you wish you had been able to do but you've never got round to or you've never had the chance to do you know

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well I wish I had been educated and been able to talk properly because you can go anywhere where sometimes you go and you're more quiet because you're frightened to speak in case you put your foot in it (laughter)

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oh I see yeah eh what do you think ehm what do you think would happen if you won a very large sum of money tomorrow you know if you won the pools or something

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well then I would like to buy a nice house

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yes

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you know

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whereabouts

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really worth while eeh I don't know my husband wouldn't move from here because it's too near The Seven Stars next door (laughter)

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buy The Seven Stars

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(laughter) aye do you think ehm do you think it would change your life very much if you won that amount of money

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it wouldn't change my life no

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no

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it's nice to have money but eh I could never forget myself I would still be the same

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aye would you say that you were fairly eh contented with your life as it is at the moment you know

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well to a certain extent mm-hm

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you can't think of sort of loads of things that you would want to do w w w

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no not really no

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eh (pause) eh these are just eh a few questions about your opinions on eh some ordinary things eh what do you think that parents should do when their children misbehave you know how do you (pause) treat your children

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well I think when they're little a smack doesn't do them any harm and let them know they're doing wrong

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yes yes would that be sort of fairly fairly frequently then

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as long as they were doing wrong they would get a smack mm-hm

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yes and eh what about you know a young person of say sixteen or so what sort of control do you think their parents should have over them

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well you should be able to talk to them you know

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aye

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I know I talk to my daughter now you know let her know what I don't approve of and sometimes she disagrees but I just let her know

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aye uh-huh would do you think you would want to eh control things like what time they came in of a night time

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well I think if you can trust them it's all right but not too late

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uh-huh yeah mm eh this is eh a question you don't have to answer if you don't want because because some people don't ehm which way do you vote do you tell people

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well I don't know I don't know what to say there (laughter) I don't think it really eh matters nowadays who you vote for I have voted mind you know but eh mainly Labour you know but once this is what happened to me once there was a gentleman came to the door and he said have you put your vote in I said no and he says come on I'll take you up I knew this person wasn't Labour (unclear) the area he was (unclear) and when I got up I hadn't the heart to vote Labour

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(laughter) aye

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so I got wrong off my husband (laughter)

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yes aye

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eeh I says (unclear) (laughter)

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(laughter) (unclear) (pause) eh so do you ehm but you do normally vote Labour I mean you

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mm-hm yes

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eh why do you think that you always vote that way is it because

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just because my parents did that's all

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yes yes do you ehm do you think there's really very much difference between political parties or not much

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I think they're proper catty they're like children

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yes

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now they are I mean I mean one's no better than the other now I don't think so

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yes ehm would you say that you ehm you usually vote on all occasions I mean do you vote in local government elections for instance as well

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yes mm-hm

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yes pretty regular voter yes (pause) ehm what do you think about eh the way the present government are running the country

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oh I think it's terrible I I mean I'm poor now but my my goodness we'll nev never get a chance when they're in they're getting worse cost of living's going up and up and up and they're not doing anything about it

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eh now if we could go on to talk for a bit about the thing that we are most interested in that's the way you talk and so on what you think about the way people talk eh firstly do you think that you ever change the way you speak according to the company you're in or any other circumstances

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well I try in a little way I know I can't keep up to it you know

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aye

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but I try my best not to go you know below

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y yeah what eh what sort of voice would you say you were speaking in at the moment would you say this (interruption) was more or less normal for you

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just ordinary normal voice

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yes do you think ehm do you think (interruption)

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because you seem a normal person (laughter)

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thank you (laughter) I am complimented ehm do you think you've got a have you got any sort of broader accent than this or

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well I can forget myself (interruption) you know (unclear)

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you think you can go broader than this

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yes

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aye

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but I think when you have children you try for them to be better which we have done with our children they can talk properly

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aye

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I say properly it's properly to me you know when you hear some kids talk

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aye yes eh you would normally ehm correct your children for (interruption) talking in a very broad Tyneside accent

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yes oh yes I don't like it and they never have done it

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aye

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mm never have done I mean they can talk much nicer than I do but I'm glad for them I mean eh we didn't get the opportunity you know with it

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aye yes do you eh do you d disapprove on the whole of people talking in a Tyneside accent

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oh well I think sometimes it eh seems to lower their character to me it does

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mm-hm (pause) that would be I mean but you don't object to the way well I mean the way you talk presumably as well

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oh no I mean eh my myself I think I'm just ordinary but there is some very slang which I would say they could better theirselves

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uh-huh yes mm eh do you think that eh if somebody talks like you you know if you meet somebody for the first time and say and they talk very like you would would you think you were more likely to get on with them you know do you feel closer to them if they talk like you

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well I think so uh-huh

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yes yes mm eh you know the way that ehm (pause) say the way the newsreaders speak on television when they're reading out the news

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mm-hm

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eh do you approve of that way of speech you know (interruption) do you like it

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oh yes I'd love to speak like them (unclear) be great

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

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yes mm-hm I think it's really great

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you wouldn't miss local accents (interruption) at all

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no

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oh mm eh do you know anybody yourself by the way who talks like that

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well I have a niece and eh she had elocution and she's a real nice talker

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uh-huh yes mm you don't think (interruption)

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and I I like to hear it you know when you can talk properly like that

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yeah you don't eh you don't ever have the impression for instance that people who talk like that are putting it on

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no not unless you know they're putting it on (interruption) (laughter)

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(laughter) yes

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(laughter) that's the difference isn't it I mean there's some nice people that they just talk like that normally

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mm-hm

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it's all right but these people suppose like myself and then they add a bit edge on then I would know and I wouldn't like it (laughter)

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yes aye but it's all right if you've had elocution lessons and you've

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aye if you've really been brought up to it

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mm-hm yes ehm this might strike you as a a vagueish sort of question ehm what sort of things do you think you can tell about somebody from the way they talk you know do you ever guess things about people from

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oh I think so yes I mean some people boast all the time and you know straight away that's not the one for me more or less

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I was thinking more of just just from their pronunciation you know just from the way they speak as opposed to what they say

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mm-hm eeh I don't know

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do you think you can can you usually tell you know people who are rather upper class for instance do you feel that you can spot them from their speech

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oh I think so yes mm-hm

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eh what would you say eh about my accent

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just ordinary nothing eh elaborate like you know

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would you say I came from Gateshead

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well you say we say 'Gatesid' and you say 'Gateshead' you know

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Gateshead

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there's that little difference

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aye yeah that's true

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I mean eh if you like to be posh you say 'Gateshead' but we say 'Gatesid' you know what I mean

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I never noticed that one yeah but eh I mean eh so you find it hard to tell whether I come from Gateshead or not

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course you've just told us you do come from Gateshead

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that's true yes (laughter)

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(laughter) (unclear)

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that's right yes ehm (pause) when you are ehm in other parts of the country can people usually tell that you come from Tyneside

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I haven't been in other parts of the c I haven't been very far just up I think Northumberland I've been to Yorkshire you know Filey Butlins I think that's the furthest I've (interruption) been

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that's the furthest you've travelled (interruption) from here

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I've never had an opportunity

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eh ehm you know do people from other parts of Tyneside ever know that you come from Gateshead or do you yourself ever think that you can tell people who come from Newcastle

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I don't think there's that much difference really Newcastle and Gateshead

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mm not a bit

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no I don't think so probably no

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mm ehm (pause) would you like to read that list of words for us please fairly fairly quickly straight down

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

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ta eh

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should have been happy Harry (laughter)

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not happy Mary (laughter)

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aye eh now eh I'm going to read out a list of words for each one I would just like to know eh firstly whether you're familiar with it and secondly whether you would use it you know they're all fairly local words but

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like what do you mean if you're familiar with it ehm

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well there might be some eh that you know what they mean but you wouldn't actually use them yourself

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oh yes like eh some people use a big word where others use a simple word is that what you mean

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well yes but these are all eh these are all local you know

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mm-hm yes

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local Tyneside words that you might use eh aside for beside do you say it's just aside the fire

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aside for beside did you say

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mm

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I would say beside

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beside yeah eh bairn

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child

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a little bairn do you use it

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never use bairn

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do you not

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no never have done

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ehm bait

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I've used bait now it's lunch since I got two daughters (laughter) but I've used bait a lot (laughter)

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aye (laughter) bonny

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uh-huh bonny

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eh bray

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like when you bray a child

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mm-hm (laughter)

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I think I've always said I'll give you a hiding

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aye eh bullets

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what

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bullets

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oh aye (laughter) sweets (laughter) I never said bullets not I mean when I was younger probably but not now

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not now yes eh clamming

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common

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clamming

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uh-huh I use common

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no clamming

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oh clamming

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uh-huh

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no I just say I'm hungry

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mm-hm yeah boody

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boody

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aye

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no when I was little I used boody

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aye

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looking for boodies in the back lanes

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yes coin coin a corner

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oh no I say (interruption) turn

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no you say turn cree

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cree

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mm

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like a hen cree

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yes

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what else is there besides a he a hut like

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well just huts and all sorts pigeon cree (laughter)

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I think it was cree I think I used cree

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(unclear) eh fettle

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no I don't use that

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don't use it no eh gully

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gully the knife

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aye

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no

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you're familiar with it but you don't use it

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no no well I think eh my mother was more for gully and things like that what you're saying

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eh howk

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no

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no definitely not eh lowe

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loud

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lowe a flame or a light

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no light

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no ehm mense be more to your mense to get some work done

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never used it

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no do do you know it do are you familiar with it

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na

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no eh parky

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parky

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yes

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mm-hm she's (interruption) parky

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fussy about your food

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mm

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varnigh

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farm

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varnigh

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oh varnigh

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aye

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barely like I don't use it but I know it

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mell

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mell

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aye

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what's mell

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for a hammer

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no never used it (laughter)

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ehm knool to be knooled

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to be knooled down like

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yes

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mm I know it but I don't (interruption) use it

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you don't use it

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no

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eh now eh more or less on the same lines I'm going to read out a list of sentences and ehm for each one I would just like to know whether it sounds all right to you you know whether it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstances arose you know what I mean

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mm

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eh so the trouble is that some people insist on sort of harking back to their schooldays and correcting all of these in terms of you know what they were taught at school as being

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uh-huh

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good grammar like but I'm I'm just interested in you know whether you (interruption) think you could s whether you think you could say it now mm (interruption)

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(interruption) what you're (unclear) (interruption) mm-hm

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ehm were you wakened last night when I came in

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oh yes I often say that

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yes

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mm-hm

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eh I was still a bed when he called this morning

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mm-hm yes

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ehm he never gave us any

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mm-hm yes

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yeah eh do you not go there very often

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uh-huh

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yeah ehm they're useless them

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oh not I don't say that very often no

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don't think so no eh me and John went to the races on Saturday

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no John and I

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mm eh I might could manage it

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yes uh-huh

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

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no I don't

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you don't think so

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na

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eh it's ower big to get through there

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no

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no eh you know my cousin that her husband died

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yes uh-huh

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

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uh-huh (interruption) yes

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

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it's all right you know but I don't think eh

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you'd say the son would you

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mm-hm

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eh they go to the pictures of a Sunday

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uh-huh yes I would say that

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

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I don't think so no

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no eh these ones are pretty big to them others

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yes

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ehm here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

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mm-hm

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mm eh I think we're going to be soon for the picture

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yes

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yes ehm (pause) (unclear) ehm would you mind stop talking

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no

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no

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I don't think so

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you don't think so eh do you want a cup of tea making

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I would say do you want a cup of tea made

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aye yes right do you know him that used to work on the railways

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yes

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yeah eh he happened a nasty accident

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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mm eh I wanted for to talk to you about it

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repeat that

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I wanted for to talk to you about it

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no

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no mm ehm when did it happen you

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when did it happen

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when did it happen you

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no

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no eh I've got money belonging him

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uh-huh

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

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well I don't know I haven't used it (laughter)

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eh it's just the so as I can see bit do you think you could say so as I can see

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so uh-huh something like that

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

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mm-hm yes

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mm it's all right for you you're used with it

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uh-huh

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mm we've been waiting of a bus

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yes

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

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mm-hm

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

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well mm-hm

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yes eh there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought

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now if my husband was there he would say yes (laughter)

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(laughter) would he what we had brought

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yes I think that's what we would say

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aye mm eh many people were there there

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uh-huh yes

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ehm where did you get it at

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yes

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mm eh never mind I'll manage but

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mm-hm

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

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uh-huh

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yes eh me and George is going to the town today

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na

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no eh Jack didn't think much to the race

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no

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no mm all the caravan sites are good and I've stayed on them nearly all

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no I don't think so

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no ehm they'd not seen it

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they'd not seen it

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yes

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mm-hm

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that all right mm it's far too long this

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mm-hm

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yeah eh how's your wife and family then

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uh-huh

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yes eh Joe can't come tomorrow being as he's working late

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yes

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ehm what is it he does for a living

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uh-huh

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mm eh he wants his wages paid immediately

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yes

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yeah just light the fire on will you

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just light the fire on

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uh-huh

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we haven't got a fire to light on now (laughter)

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no but you could light this one on couldn't you

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we just turn it on

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turn it on or light it

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turn it we don't have to light it you see

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(laughter) eh I'll clout yous both in a minute

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no

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no

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na

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eh how much have they offered we

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how much what

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have they offered we

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mm-hm

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yeah eh pass us one of them spanners

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yes

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yes I've broke a plate I'm afraid

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I wouldn't say I'm afraid I would just say I broke a plate

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(laughter) all right (laughter) eh I come this morning but you weren't in

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yeah

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mm-hm eh he done it all right

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mm-hm

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yeah I had forgetten to buy the onions

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often (laughter) I often forget

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(laughter) yes but you would say I had forgetten

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yes

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eh he give us a pound for doing it

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uh-huh

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yeah eh we had went to the coast for the day

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repeat that again

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we had went to the coast for the day

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no I don't think I would say that

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no would you say we had gone

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mm-hm

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eh I seen Albert on Tuesday

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yes

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

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yes

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yeah eh that's what happens when you be naughty

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yes

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yeah I'll probably see him a Saturday

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mm-hm I wish I was (laughter)

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

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uh-huh

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yeah eh you've letten him get away

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no

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no 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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mm-hm

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yeah eh he's as Tyneside as what I am

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yes

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

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uh-huh

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yes mm eh nearly at the end eh could you give us ehm the opposite of I'll be going there this week

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you'll not be going there this week

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thanks and again the opposite of he's got some

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he hasn't any

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ta the opposite of he's seen that picture

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he hasn't seen the picture

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ta the opposite of you're working late tonight

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ehm you're not working tonight

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ta eh the opposite of I gave him one

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I didn't give him any

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ta eh suppose ehm you went up to somebody in the street to ask for a match what do you say

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could I have a match please

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ta and eh could you finish off this sentence eh I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

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today

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thanks that's it that's the lot ta

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ooh that's not so bad (unclear)

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why do you not like the idea of people listening to you

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I just once heard ehm my voice on the tape recorder eeh and I nearly died do you know when you used to watch Bobby Thompson years ago on here on the Geordie programme

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I think he still gets around as far as (interruption)

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he's never on the telly though

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no he's on the (unclear)

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eeh I mean you've got to laugh at him but he was what you called a real Geordie well I didn't think I was a real Geordie until I went on one of those (unclear) I didn't know it was on I nearly died when I heard myself (laughter)

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aye (unclear)

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as my husband says to me when I use the phone he'd say you sound like a henwife now some people use the phone and they sound no different you know course it's my husband's job using the phone you know I suppose (pause) as he says you've got to talk properly

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aye when yes that's when yeah some people use the phone they sound very posh

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uh-huh they do well he does he sounds much different on the phone to what he is in here talking to me

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aye

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I remember the first time I phoned him up I come off the phone laughing (unclear) (laughter) (unclear) bye bye and all the rest of it (unclear) well he's so posh and I like hearing that stuff by that's funny and when he come home I says you don't talk like that to me at home and he says oh you've got to be like that you don't know who's you know

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who's on the other end yeah (laughter)

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(unclear) well I think Wearside's just as bad as eh Tyneside really

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aye it's fairly different isn't it (interruption) localized

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it's much different but ehm in the sense that it's a dialect

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oh yeah

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you know I think they're bet

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yes

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mm-hm

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I think it's better it's not as bad as Tyneside

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you don't think so

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no

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I'm sure people in s I I I would think people in Sunderland probably think the opposite you know

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well I worked with a lot of girls from Boldon when I worked at Pelaw and they had funny sayings you know like colour they said that funny 'coola'

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colour (unclear)

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you know and 'spone' spoon

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spoon moon

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things like that there was a shop opposite Lucy's we said they said 'Loosy's' (unclear) I didn't think it was as bad as Tyneside I mean the really broad Tyneside

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I had a cousin came to our house once and we had a friend and she was broad Tyneside

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mm

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now she said she couldn't understand a word that he said and he she he couldn't understand her you s (laughter) but I (unclear)

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are you finished now do you just go (interruption)

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no I'll go I'll go and try and get another one (unclear)

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the next one

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because it's you know I mean I've got to come up a long way like from Rectory Road where I live now so