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Age Group:

31-40

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Gateshead

Education:

Left school at 15

Occupation:

Shop Worker

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Gender:

Male

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(unclear) T L S G five one

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thanks (pause) eh (pause) to start from the beginning could you tell us where you were born please

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ehm Windy Nook

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yeah eh and whereabouts eh else you've lived since then for roughly how long how long did you stay there for instance

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well I was there right (unclear) I was eh Windy Nook right from being born till I was nineteen and I was married and then I went down to eh Windmill Hills at Gateshead

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mm-hm mm

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lived there for two and a half year and then come up here (pause) and I've been here nine year this month

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ta and eh which of those places did you think was the best to live in you know where did you (interruption) enjoy living most

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oh Windy Nook

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yes

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definitely aye

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why why do you think it was so much better

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wey I mean to say I think just being used with the place you know

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yeah

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just being brought up in a place more or less

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yeah did you find that it was more ehm more neighbourly you know (interruption) did you know people better

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yes oh yes wey you knew everybody because it was only a small eh place you see

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yes yeah eh it's almost almost a sort of village by itself isn't it really (unclear)

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mm

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eh (pause) mm what about ehm this area do you find that this is a pretty neighbourly sort of area you know

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well not really it's anything but neighbourly

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is it

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oh no it's not ehm (pause) it's not my cup of tea like you know

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oh you don't would you say that you knew say most of the people on on your block

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oh I know all them on the block uh-huh mm-hm

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mm eh mm (pause) would you ehm (pause) you know considering Gateshead as compared with Newcastle would you (pause) rather live in Gateshead

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oh yes

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definitely

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yes

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why do you think that is just because you were born here or (interruption) (unclear)

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well probably that's what it is uh-huh sometimes I like to go shopping the town and that but eh for living I wouldn't like to live in it

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aye do you not shop in Gateshead very much

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uh-huh I shop in both places you know

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yeah ehm (pause) and what about eh Tyneside as compared with the rest of the country would you be happy to move away from Tyneside if there was reason for you to or (pause) do you think you would miss it

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oh I think I would miss it if I moved away

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yes

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uh-huh

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sort of connections and friends and something

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uh-huh I think that's what it is

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yeah ehm (pause) do you think that eh (pause) people from Tyneside are in in your experience different from people from other parts of the country

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well they are uh-huh I think they are anyway uh-huh I think they're more neighbourly and you know easy to get along with them eh more than any other parts I've been to

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yes have you eh been away from Tyneside very often just holidays

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oh just holidays you know that's all just fortnight holidays

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eh (pause) could you tell us ehm where your parents were born please in Gateshead as well were they

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ehm (pause) eh uh-huh both in Gateshead

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ehm yes

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don't (NAME) get up

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ehm (pause) and eh so they've lived in Gateshead all their lives in fact (interruption) (unclear)

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all their lives uh-huh

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ehm and what was your father's occupation

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mining

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yes (pause) it's amazing how many people have you know mining connections (unclear) generation but ehm (pause) eh could you say what age group you fall into on that card please if you could just say the letter you know

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the letter C

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ta eh and finally on what basis you occupy this house is it C

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ren eh C (interruption) uh-huh

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yes yeah and eh you're married

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yes

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and ehm how many children have you got

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two

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the two is that are they both yours

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no eh just the little boy and I've got one eh nine

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oh I see both at home

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eh sch yes she's at school

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ehm (pause) eh do you work at all (interruption) at the moment

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yes

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oh eh whereabouts

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emh Whitehall Road Co op

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do you

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mm-hm

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oh right I haven't seen you in there I I sometimes go in I go in on eh Saturday mornings

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oh well I don't (unclear) I have been these last couple of Saturdays like (interruption) I've been in uh-huh

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yes

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but eh I don't I just work the five day

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oh I see yes and do you work

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just the twenty hours you know part time (interruption) (unclear)

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ah I see yes you don't work a whole day

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no

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you just work

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mornings or afternoons

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wey it all depends what shift I'm in doesn't it

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(unclear) mornings or afternoons I just put twenty hours a week in that's all

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yes it's it's (pause) pretty well up to you is it what eh (interruption) when you work (unclear)

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uh-huh mm-hm

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is it eh is it a good job do you enjoy it

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oh yes uh-huh I like it better than any of the other jobs I've had

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yeah what eh what other jobs have you done in the past (interruption) (unclear)

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wey mostly factory work you know machinist

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yes

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of course as well ehm CWS at Pelaw worked in (interruption)

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the fact the factory oh I see yes

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three of the factories (unclear) quilting shirting and tailoring

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oh I see aye

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and then eh Farnon's a while then like I got married and then at the store

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I see yeah yeah (pause) and eh but your your present job you enjoy better than the (interruption) factory

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yes right uh-huh any the rest uh-huh

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mm (pause) ehm (pause) this is just eh (pause) some questions to find out if you use certain expressions in certain situations ehm (pause) if something's eh stacked on a on a high shelf do you say it's up a height

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uh-huh

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do you use that expression

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uh-huh

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yes and ehm (pause) could you say of a a tool or something eh this'll do the job clever do you ever use that expression

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not clever no

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no

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na

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and ehm if somebody's had too much to drink he's (pause) what do you say

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wey (pause) (laughter) well I (laughter)

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she says all sorts her (laughter)

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(laughter)

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(laughter) (pause) ehm

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(unclear) all sorts of things (laughter)

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(laughter) yeah ehm how old were you when you left school

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fifteen

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

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well I was at the time till I got till I got left then I wished I was back

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aye did you think that school life was better than working life in fact

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oh yes wey aye

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aye (pause) and eh have you had any eh further education since then or anything (interruption) night class or anything no

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no

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no ehm (pause) looking back on your education would you say that it's been worth very much to you in your life you know since you left school

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well not really

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not particularly

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no

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not in your job

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not really no

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not very important (unclear) and what about ehm (pause) what about out outside your job do you ever feel it's been important to you you know just in your ordinary life like for for you yourself

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well I (unclear) it has been important uh-huh

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yes

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mm-hm

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eh (pause) and what about ehm (pause) for your your own children you know do you feel that education's important for them

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oh yeah (interruption) mm-hm I do

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yeah if eh if you had say a child who was you know deciding whether to leave school at fifteen say or to stay on do you think you would advise them to stay on

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I would advise them to stay on uh-huh if I thought eh you know he was wey clever you know uh-huh if he could (pause) be able to

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yeah and do you think that ehm (pause) that this would go as much for girls as for boys or more for boys

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wey more for boys I think than for girls uh-huh

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wey I don't know because they've got a good good job for life now if they haven't got education isn't it

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I think it is I think it's more important now for a lad because I mean to say the lad's going to work all his life whereas the lass gets married and has family and (interruption) (unclear)

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aye (interruption) yeah

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(unclear)

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you see that takes most of her life up I think

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but they can always gan back to work now can't they

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wey you can do when their family's up

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(unclear)

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mm-hm

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do you think do you think it's eh a good idea in general for a woman to w work after she's married

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wey I I do because you're in the house all day and you've got the work when you just you're interest lies in the house whereas when you get out you see a bit more life I you know that's what I think oh I do

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so I mean you you would eh you would work even if you know I mean even if you didn't have to you would just do (interruption) (unclear)

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oh I would I wouldn't stay in the house all day no

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yes (pause) do you think that eh schools have improved since you left

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oh definitely (interruption) oh yes definitely uh-huh

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is this the impression you get yeah

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oh there's a school along (unclear) oh what a smasher (unclear) and all sorts even a swimming pool everything

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where aye that's near Washington

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aye

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yes yes (interruption) (unclear)

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(unclear) one that lights up

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aye (pause) eh now eh you lived in ehm Windy Nook when you were s pretty young that's you know under twelve say

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yeah

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ehm (pause) did you think that it was a was a good place to live for children you know did you enjoy your childhood there

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well I enjoyed it but there was nothing there really you know there was a lot of country like we used to go for all the walks and that

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mm-hm

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whereas it's all been built on in that same country now you know

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right

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but when I was (interruption)

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has it changed very much since you were (interruption) young then

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oh yes oh it's changed I mean to say a lot of buildings has went up whereas they weren't there when I was (interruption)

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yeah aye all the new ones eh (interruption) Harlow

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big housing (interruption) estates and that uh-huh wey aye

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Harlow Green ones of course yeah pretty (unclear) mm eh can you remember any of the ehm games that you used to play or things you used to do when you were young

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well eh I joined the harriers and I enjoyed that

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did you

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uh-huh Saltwell ladies

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that was Saltwell was it

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uh-huh

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aye was it very eh (interruption)

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I enjoyed that while I was in it

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was it very popular in those days for girls to

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oh yes uh-huh it was popular

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aye because that that's I I I don't think it is now so much

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no you never hear it now but you did used to hear a lot of it in the papers and that at one time you know

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aye (pause) because I I run for the eh university like you know we run in the loc in the local harrier league

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mm-hm

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and there there are women's competitions but they're usually pretty sparsely you know entered

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uh-huh (pause) no I never hear much of it now well I never hear really of it at all

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aye

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but you did hear in the Gateshead Post like you know (interruption)

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uh-huh yes

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you used to hear you know more than any other paper like

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were you a very distinguished athlete

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(laughter) but eh oh aye I enjoyed that while I was in

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yes

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well you used to do all right in the school sports though and all didn't you

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sport I used to like anything to do with sports

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aye

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netball anything

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uh-huh good (pause) ehm can you remember eh what you call a game where eh a street game where one of the kids has to chase the others to try to touch them what do you call that

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mm (pause) we used to play it and I've forgetten the name now

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(unclear)

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relievo was it we used to play

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I I was just thinking of tuggy did you used to play tuggy

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oh aye tuggy uh-huh that's right aye uh-huh

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wey aye

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(laughter) uh-huh

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and what do you say about the the one who has to chase the others

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what eh

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did you say he's (pause) do you say he's on

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aye uh-huh (unclear) mm-hm

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yes yeah and eh (pause) did you have any eh methods for deciding who was going to be on

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wey ehm (pause) I don't know sometimes we used to have a race to see you know if you're last (laughter) you were on more or less I think

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eh (pause) and what did you used to say when you wanted to ehm call a halt in a game for some reason you know if you want to stop and tie your shoelace or something like that did you used to cross your fingers and say

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no I don't whether we done that

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skinchers

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oh aye that's (interruption) right (laughter)

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aye you forget divn't you

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aye you forget it he's bringing it back (laughter)

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I find (pause) strange like but the older the people are who I'm talking to the better they remember their childhood you know some people dead old people can remember loads about when they were little mm ehm (pause) now ehm (pause) do you think you could tell us what your ordinary word is for each of the rooms of this house please just (pause) you know what you normally call them what's this room please

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well I usually say this is the kitchen

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uh-huh

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and I'd say that's (pause) like in the scullery

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yeah

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and the bedrooms like that's

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yes and what do you call the eh you know what you're in after you come through the front door

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the passage

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yes ehm (pause) and eh (pause) this probably isn't true for you but to get out of my backdoor you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

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the sneck

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yeah and ehm (pause) what do you call eh the thing you sweep the floor with when you do it by hand

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just the brush

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ta eh and what do you call ehm that

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the bleezer

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ta (unclear) you would talk about bleezing the fire (interruption) (unclear)

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uh-huh uh-huh (laughter)

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(unclear)

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(laughter)

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

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cleaning the what

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the plates and things after a meal (unclear)

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just tidying up

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eh I mean actually (pause) washing them you know what do you say you have to

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have to wash the dishes

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wash the dishes yeah ehm (pause) could you ever do you ever say washing up

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no just washing the dishes (laughter)

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eh (pause) can you tell us ehm (pause) how you like to spend your spare time you know assuming that you have any

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going out (laughter) just going out and for a drink

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aye whereabouts do you like to go for instance

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well we just usually go to the Mount Pleasant club

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oh aye yes

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that's where we would go

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(unclear)

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well uh-huh it gets sometimes you know turns on

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good (unclear) (unclear)

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(unclear) a Saturday night that's the only night I get out

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oh I see yes

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on a Saturday night I don't get out any other time (pause) we just go there

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we sometimes gan to Wardley

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oh very odd times

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you see with mother being handy for the young ones you see when we've got a baby sitter (unclear) we've got to back (unclear)

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yeah

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(unclear)

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yeah what about eh watching the television do you watch very much

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oh yes watch it on wey on a night uh-huh

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yes all the nights you're in you usually watch the television

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I watch it uh-huh wey not all the time like (unclear) things I've got

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aye

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different times I've got things to do but (interruption) if there's a good film on I like to watch it

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aye yes

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and anything I like on it

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and if if you don't like what's on do you usually switch it off or do you just leave it on

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no I just leave it on

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aye but ignore it

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(laughter) uh-huh (laughter)

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yeah she'll say turn it on I want to see this and I'll watch the other side and then she gans in the scullery and starts washing up (unclear)

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(laughter)

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(laughter) nasty trick

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wey aye

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yeah do you think that the eh standard of programmes is pretty good on the whole or poor

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oh I think they're pretty good

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not bad

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mm

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what kind of things do you like

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wey eh I like the films and I just like Coronation Street and ehm I like to see that University Challenge (interruption) I like to see that

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oh aye it's a good programme that

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and quizzes and that you know (interruption) and the eh Hughie Green shows

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yes yes aye do you not get bored with Coronation Street

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no I like it no

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no have you watched it

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I used to like to see Peyton Place when it was on and then I (pause) would never miss that

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uh-huh (pause) eh (pause) and what do you think's the worst sort of rubbish on television is there anything that you really hate

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ehm (pause) oh I don't like that Callan

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do you not

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oh no it's an eh (pause) ehm (pause)

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you know that Star Trek you didn't used to like (interruption)

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star that Star Trek aye

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now she's going bad (unclear)

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(laughter)

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hm come on turn over to Star Trek I want to watch Coronation Street

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I used to think it was funny that (unclear) Star Trek (unclear)

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(laughter) (unclear) too far fetched that was (laughter)

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(laughter)

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wey it was only because (unclear)

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(laughter)

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(laughter)

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got to use your imagination

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eh I can't

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(unclear) and are there any things that eh you sort of ehm wish you could have done but you've never got round to or you've never had the chance to do

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wey ehm (pause) I mean to say I would have joined up I think you know like

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yeah

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before I was married like joined up you know if I could have you know if I had my life to go over again like I would s I would have done that

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wh why do you would you like the sort of travel (unclear)

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uh-huh travel uh-huh

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and eh

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I think that's the only thing

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mm what about eh if you if you won a a very large sum of money tomorrow you know I mean if you won the pools or something what do you think you would do

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I would go on a lovely cruise

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aye travel (interruption) would be the first thing

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eh buy a house

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mm-hm

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and (pause) well I think that's enough money to do you I think you know to live

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aye yeah (pause) these are just ehm (pause) a few questions about your (pause) eh opinions on some ordinary matters like ehm (pause) what do you think that parents should do when their children misbehave you know how what what your policy about you know that sort of thing

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well I usually find if you keep them in if they do something wrong and you keep them in the house

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yes yeah

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and that us more usually works more than anything else than you know braying or anything

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bet better than hitting them like aye and eh (pause) do you ever eh hit your children (unclear) (interruption) eh

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oh yes I hit them (interruption) uh-huh

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you do sometimes

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mm-hm

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but it's got to be for something special

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yes oh oh yes I wouldn't hit them for nothing

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mm eh and ehm (pause) what about a young person of say sixteen do you think that they should be more or less allowed to do as they want mm-hm

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oh no not sixteen year olds no

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do you think their parents should still have

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still uh-huh

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keep them under control

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well they don't really know much at sixteen

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aye (pause) and this would go for things like ehm staying out at at nights you know they would have to be in for a certain time at night

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oh yes sixteen year olds definitely

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(unclear) sixteen year olds is stopping out it's the parents that get worried wondering where they are like

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yes mm-hm

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I mean instead of talking about how old they are you know it's it's their parent theirsel

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aye

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I mean even you can get bairn who'll be twenty odd (pause) but if they're out all night you still wonder where they are and get yourself a bit (unclear)

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aye that's true yes (pause) eh and this is eh (pause) this is a question you don't have to answer if you don't want ehm secret ballot and all that which way do you vote

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Labour

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yeah and have you always voted the same way

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yes always

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eh (pause) eh why do you think wh wh why do you always vote the same way d is it (pause) eh do you feel a sort of loyalty to the (interruption) to the one party

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wey I would mind I like eh the Labour policies you know

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yes

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that's what it is

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you're really convinced that they're like (interruption) you know better for

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they're better mm-hm definitely

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aye (pause) and (pause) would you say that eh (pause) you turn out to vote fairly regularly I mean do you vote in sort of local government elections for instance

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yes

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yes every time ehm (pause) and eh what sort of things do you expect of a government once it's elected you know mm what do you think its main duties are

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well (pause) to the people (pause) and ehm (pause) I don't k to the poor as well you know

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aye think there should be more concentration on (interruption) social (unclear)

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mm-hm yes

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yes ehm (pause) what about ehm (pause) how do you feel about equal pay for women do you think women ought to get equal pay for equal work

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well eh (pause) I think some sometimes they should

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aye if they really (interruption) do this equal jobs

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but eh (interruption) eh uh-huh they do yes

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I would say (pause) if they're doing the same work (interruption) they should do

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if they're doing the same work uh-huh (pause) should eh should get equal pay

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yes ehm (pause) you don't think y you don't think women have got anything to lose by being sort of treated as economically equal

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I don't think they've got anything to lose

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no

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no

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ehm (pause) now if we could just go on to talk about eh the thing we are most interested in like that's the way you talk and (pause) what you think about the way other people talk ehm firstly eh (pause) do you ever change the way you speak according to the person you're talking to or the circumstances

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wey not really no

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no

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no

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not even (pause) on the telephone or anything like that

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wey I think on the telephone you have to eh you know change your eh (pause) (interruption) (unclear) (laughter)

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yeah

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(unclear) (laughter)

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(laughter)

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(laughter)

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(laughter) you try (unclear)

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(unclear) wey aye

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(laughter)

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but you're not eh (pause) you don't normally sort of change your speech to suit you know

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no not re

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towards the speech of the people you're talking to

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no not really

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aye and y you've never tried to make any eh permanent changes in the way you talk you know (unclear)

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oh wey I would like to talk nice like it's (unclear) I don't like Geordie eh

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do you not

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no no I don't think it sounds nice

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that's a just a matter of it its pleasantness like you don't think it's pleasant

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no na I don't not one little bit

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wey the trouble is if you gan anywhere though man you just have to gan say over the water or go out (pause) over the town at Sunderland there (pause) you know because they're saying words there half the time that I don't understand when we're working as well there's a lot of different types of people work there you know from Crook and what not you're saying aye and they're saying what what

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yes aye it's eh

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it'd be better if everybody spoke the same like wouldn't it

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do you think so

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wey aye

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you don't think you would miss any miss anything

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no

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yes

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you'd be able to understand each other wouldn't (interruption) they

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yes (pause) eh (pause) so (pause) there's eh (pause) there's no sense in which you approve of of local Tyneside accents do you think do you think they should be dropped altogether do you think they should go out of you know out of circulation

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wey (pause) aye they should be dropped

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yeah

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mm

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eh (pause) you you never feel ehm (pause) eh closer to people if they talk like you for instance you don't feel that

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wey you think to yourself oh well they're one of us (pause) (interruption) yeah but that's eh

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yeah so it does it does have that effect on you really (interruption) yes

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that's eh (pause) what it is like

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ehm (pause) what about eh other (pause) local accents of England you know Liverpool or Cockney accents do you think they're pleasant or

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wey I don't like the Cockney

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no

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no I don't like the Cockney eh I think eh (pause) when you get to Guisborough there they've got a lovely way of talking

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mm-hm mm

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it's not very (unclear) you know it's not that far like they've got a nice way of talking them

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and some are so some accents are nice and some are (interruption) are (unclear)

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mm-hm

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I like to hear the Scots on me as long as they don't talk too sharp (unclear)

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mm yeah and you know when when you said that eh you would like to to be able to talk nicely do what do you think you mean by nicely sort of

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well proper (interruption) you know

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the way the newsreaders speak (interruption) on the BBC

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English uh-huh yes uh-huh

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you you thoroughly approve of that way of talking

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yes uh-huh mm-hm

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eh do you do you know anybody yourself who talks like that

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no I don't think so

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no (laughter) what do you think you would think about them if you did you know I mean

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wey eh (pause) I wouldn't think anything just they were nice talkers and that's all you know

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mm (pause) yeah (pause) and eh what what sort of things in general do you think you can tell about people from the way they talk do you ever do you ever guess things about eh (pause) other people from listening to them talk you know (pause) just from their pronunciation

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like guess wey what

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yeah I mean well let's say (pause) you know how do you react to my speech for instance what w what do you think you would say about the way I talk

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well you talk properly talk properly (unclear) you know

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really properly

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well maybe not really (interruption) but eh I mean to say you don't talk slang Geordie do you

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no but you can tell the accent's there though behind the voice can't you

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what accent though

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I think well do yo you think y do you think you would be able to guess that I came from Gateshead I mean that I came from Tyneside

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no I don't think so

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you don't think so

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no I I don't I don't (interruption)

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what about you

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oh wey aye I would think so wey aye

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it's pretty obvious in fact in my thinking

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wey aye

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no I thought you (unclear) maybe outside Newcastle you know

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aye I was in fact born in Gateshead I've lived all my life in Gateshead you know and as far as I know always talked like this as well you know I've never change I've never I've never changed anything about the way I talk not consciously anyway (pause) yeah but do you not think that you can guess ehm (interruption)

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you don't talk slang though do you

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eh well I'm not I'm not exactly sure what you mean by slang

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wey like ganning and you know things like watta and

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yes

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like that like you know and ye for you you know

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aye

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do you sound like that

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well I think it depends on the circum

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(laughter)

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it depends on the situation you know sometimes I do like sometimes I don't but I mean I don't think you do either I mean eh I don't think you've ever said watta in this you know in this interview like

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no (laughter)

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although you did before

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aye he does (laughter)

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but you haven't really you know eh in a way I would have thought that I would be you know fairly close to you really in a you know in in wor manner of speech

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(unclear) (laughter)

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it's funny that you should (interruption)

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you should hear his own outside (laughter) with them all (laughter)

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do you think that you speak sort of very differently when you're you know I mean do you think that this you know the way you're talking now is very different from the way you normally speak

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oh no not no

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you don't feel as if you're doing anything special to change it

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no I don't no

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ehm (pause) a about yourself when when you're in other parts of the country can people usually tell that you come from Tyneside

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usually uh-huh

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yeah

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mm-hm

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ehm and what about eh on on other parts of Tyneside can people ever tell that you come from Gateshead

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no I don't think so

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and do you yourself feel that eh (pause) there's a difference between the speech of Gateshead and Newcastle (unclear)

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no I think it's about the (interruption) same

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more or less the same

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uh-huh

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you wouldn't like to guess whe whether somebody came from this side or that side (pause) from the way they talk

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wouldn't like to guess

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mm

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I mean to say you get that at Hepburn they talk nice and like Jarrow's just you know the same as like what Gateshead talks you know

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yeah

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but ehm

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but there's no big difference between Gateshead and Newcastle

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no I don't think so

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ehm (pause) mm (pause) whuh ehm do you think you could just read that list of words for us please just straight down from the top to bottom

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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 happy Harry Mary yes better something fall which apple television absent realize Newcastle Seahouses method concert descend chocolate explain industry condemn tissue with

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ta (pause) mm now eh I'm going to read out a list of words and for each one I'd like to know ehm (pause) if you know what it means and secondly eh if you use it yourself and thirdly if you hear people using it fairly frequently you know they're all fairly local words you know ehm (pause) excuse me a minute (pause) ehm (pause) aside for beside do you say it's just aside the fire

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mm-hm (interruption) yes

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yes ehm bairn

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just the same bairn aye

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yes you would say that

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yes

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eh bait

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uh-huh

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yes

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(unclear)

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eh (pause) beck meaning a 'stream'

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beck

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mm

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no I never use that

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no eh bonny

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uh-huh yes

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you use that eh bray

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yes

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yes ehm bullets

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yes

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clamming

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yes (laughter)

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yes eh boody

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mm

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you do w w what do you mean by it boody

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wey eh like a cup broken cups like you know

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yeah they've got to be broken

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mm-hm (unclear)

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you don't talk about eh a boody teapot or a boody dish

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oh uh-huh that and all yes uh-huh yes

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you do mm just that it's made of uh-huh

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boody

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ehm (pause) clarts

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mm-hm

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yes eh (pause) coin a corner

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no I divn't say (interruption) coin no

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you wouldn't say it no

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little bit since I heard that now like to coin

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yes seems to've c

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I had a laugh the other day when I says it at work

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aye

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you always used coin round there (laughter)

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(laughter)

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yeah eh (pause) cree

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uh-huh yes

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dunch

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yes

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yes ehm fettle

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mm-hm

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do you use that in the sense of ehm to fettle something

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mm-hm yes

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what about being in good fettle do you use it that way

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no I wouldn't say to be in good fettle no

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eh gully

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yes

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yes howk

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yes

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yes hoy

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mm-hm

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yes ken for 'to know'

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ken no

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do you ken him no

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no

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eh (unclear)

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uh-huh

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yes lowe

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yes uh-huh

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eh (pause) meaning a light

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mm-hm

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give us a lowe

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yes uh-huh

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there's not many people who are familiar with that like

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aye

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mm

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(unclear)

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yeah

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(unclear)

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(laughter)

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I noticed that (laughter)

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(laughter)

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(laughter) yes

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(unclear)

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(laughter) (unclear) (laughter)

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no no it's all strictly confidential (pause) eh (pause) eh mense be more to your mense

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yes uh-huh

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aye ehm parky about your food

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parky yes (interruption) mm-hm

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aye eh stot

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yes

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yes varnigh

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what

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varnigh

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varnigh aye varnigh (interruption) yes uh-huh

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yes very nearly uh-huh

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uh-huh mm

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eh and now eh I'm going to read out eh this list of sentences and for each one I want to know ehm if it's sounds normal to you that is if it if it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstances arose you see what imean ehm (pause) so eh (pause) you know some of them will sound a bit odd to you and some of them will sound just you know just like ordinary sentences right

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mm-hm

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ehm (pause) eh were you wakened last night when I came in is that okay

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mm-hm

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yes

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mm-hm

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I was still a bed when he called this morning

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yes

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ehm he never gave us any

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mm-hm

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okay yeah

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mm-hm

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eh do you not go there

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(unclear)

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do you not go there very often

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mm-hm that's okay

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okay

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(unclear)

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they're useless them

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(unclear)

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me and John went to the races yesterday

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mm-hm

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eh it's me and him's last day

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uh-huh it's all right

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that would be okay yes

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mm-hm

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ehm I might could manage it

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uh-huh

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yes eh it's ower big to get through there

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(unclear) it's too no I wouldn't (interruption) say that

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you wouldn't say ower big no eh (pause) he wouldn't could have worked even if you had asked him

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uh-huh (unclear)

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yeah eh (pause) you know my cousin that her husband died

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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yes eh I've got to stay with the son for the holidays

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mm-hm

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yes they go to the pictures of a Sunday

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mm-hm

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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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mm-hm

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yeah eh these ones are pretty big to them others

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mm-hm

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here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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yeah

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mm-hm

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yes would you mind stop talking

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mm-hm

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wey you wouldn't say that you'd say hey will ye shut up

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(laughter)

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I w I wouldn't dare say that (laughter) I told you it should have been him (laughter)

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(unclear)

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that's all right perfectly all right eh do you want a cup of tea making

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mm-hm

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okay

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mm-hm

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eh (interruption)

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was that a hint (laughter)

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(laughter)

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(laughter) no it isn't but it has occurred to me that some people might think that it was eh (unclear)

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(unclear)

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eh (pause) you know you know him that used to work on the railways (interruption) that's okay

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mm-hm

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he happened a nasty accident

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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okay eh I wanted for to talk to you about it

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mm-hm

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yeah when did it happen you

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mm-hm it's all right

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eh I've got money belonging him

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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

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uh-huh

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yes yeah I'm going shopping for John a pair of trousers

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yes

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

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mm-hm

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yes we've been waiting of a bus

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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yes many people were there there

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mm-hm

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yeah eh where did you get it at

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uh-huh

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yes never mind I'll manage but

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mm-hm

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

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mm-hm

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no the wonder is okay

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mm-hm

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yes me and George is going to the town the day

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mm-hm

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right

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he divn't want to be (unclear) work

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(laughter)

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(laughter) Jack didn't think much to the race

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uh-huh

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yes

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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had they seen it no they'd not seen it

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mm-hm

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they'd not seen it yeah

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mm-hm

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yes eh my coat's too long this

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uh-huh

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yes

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mm-hm

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how's your wife and family then

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mm-hm

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mm 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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mm-hm

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yes eh he wants his wages paid immediately

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yes

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(unclear) paid straight away

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yes (laughter) I'll change that eh just light the fire on will you

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mm-hm

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uh-huh eh (pause) I'll clout yous both in a minute

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yes

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(unclear) (laughter)

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eh how much have they offered we

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uh-huh mm-hm

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mm pass us one of them spanners

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yes

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yeah eh I've broke a plate

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mm-hm

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I come this morning but you weren't in

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yes

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yes eh he done it all right

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mm-hm

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yes I've forgetten to buy the onions

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yes

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he give us a pound for doing it

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mm-hm

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ehm we had went to the coast for the day

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uh-huh

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yeah (pause) I seen Albert on Tuesday

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mm-hm

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yes

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(unclear) (laughter)

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I'm not (interruption)

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(unclear) (laughter)

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(laughter)

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I'm not going to stand being tret like that

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mm-hm

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

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yes

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yes I'll probably seeing her Saturday

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mm-hm

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

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no I would say I think he

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yeah mm-hm eh you've letten him get away

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mm-hm

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yeah my mother's keep coming in to see us

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mm-hm

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and almost finished eh could you give me eh the opposite of 'I'll be going there this week'

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mm-hm

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the opposite of

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the opposite

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yes

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wey I'll not be going there this week

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that's right eh could you give us the opposite of 'he's got some'

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he hasn't got some

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

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he hasn't seen that picture

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ta again the opposite of 'you're working late tonight'

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he's not working late tonight

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ta eh the opposite of (interruption)

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because he was in sharp wasn't it (unclear) that's what you want to hear isn't it

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well no I (interruption)

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that's what she generally says

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n aye no I think in these cases I'm more interested in just you know the actual the negative sort of form of it you know

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ah (unclear) because she don't say (unclear)

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(laughter)

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I wish you would stop interrupting (laughter)

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(unclear)

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it's my interview

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true true (pause) eh (pause) the opposite of 'I gave him one'

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I didn't give him one

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ta eh (pause) suppose eh you went up to somebody in the street and asked for a match what would you say

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have you got a match please

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ta and 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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yes fine thanks