The Talk
of the Toon
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(2010, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Top Stories — Memories of the War: cold beds, lino and igloos
1990s / Female 51-60 & Female 51-60
I can remember lying in my bed in the War and waking up so cold that I couldn't straighten my knees ... and then I used to get up in the morning, went to the lino ... eeh it was, eh, oh, they don't know they're born ...
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The Talk of the Toon. Newcastle University.
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The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Newcastle University.
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