(unclear)

yeah do you think that ehm (pause) (interruption) do you think it's usual for eh men to be more broad than their wives (interruption) you know

(interruption) what do you want to know (interruption) I think it is

yes I think so as well

I find they are (pause) broad I find they are but my husband he oh he's very broad he keeps saying eh ye knaa I say it's not it's you know

(laughter)

and what else eh I'll say it's not spelt that way I mean I go by the way it's spelt I mean I say aye and I you know there is a lot of words I suppose I do say Tyneside

aye

but these words they are you know I say it's not spelt that way it's not spelt that way and I'm teaching my little one to talk the way I talk

yeah

and yet he's doing it the opposite you know

yes yes aye (unclear) it's a mixed effect on the on the (interruption) kids

so he's picking both up you see and I say teach him to talk how it's written because now he's learning to read and he cannot understand why we say it a different way

yes

(unclear) in the book

aye that they eh they learn to read in a very special sort of voice don't they

they do you see

children when they start to learn to read

and they learn the way it's wrote

yes

and we don't we are doing it a different way in the Tyneside dialect

yes

aye

mind he'll he he he'll almost certainly grow up talking Tyneside (interruption) you know because it's you know it's the way his friends talk you know

probably probably probably

no harm in that at all

oh I don't mind I mean he can talk which ever way he has a mind I mean I'm not bothered really

mm

but it's just I think for school (pause) to you know to so as he'll not be in any trouble at school speaking properly you know

yes mm

now what do you want anything first are you wanting a cup of tea or what would you rather get to the tea first (interruption) eh

aye might as well yes thanks

have a cup of tea then you can do what you like settle there

mm

(unclear) it's funny weather isn't it eeh dear

yes (pause) oh could I have one without milk in please

without milk oh well I haven't put the milk I never do when I have eh eh anybody come because I like them to do their own (pause) you know

ah oh that's that's very considerate of you most people you know they ask you whether you take sugar (interruption) but they always put milk in

but but they put it in they put it in I know I've been to a lot of places and they put the milk in first and I don't care for it in first so just eh (pause) so you don't take milk just (pause) sugar (pause) do you just want it there do you can you manage put your sugar in (interruption) and then

ta (pause) yes the way I go round is usually just to send out about ten letters at a time all in sort of near one (interruption) area

in the area (interruption) like

go round them all until I can get them all

(unclear)

eh mostly yes although it's eh you know there's some some people just never seem to be in it's funny you know you can call back dozens of times and

well usually I go on a Thursday morning to the shops but I haven't gone today in case you came this morning you know (interruption) when I wasn't in I thought it would just be my luck to miss you this morning but otherwise I don't bother much (pause) going out Thursday morning's my shopping morning

oh I see yes (pause) yeah yes

are you going to have a biscuit

huh

cookies go on this is (unclear) rubbish mind that's his dinner table he has to have all there beside him

oh hey I like this I like this picture

well that was in eh Shepherd's eh you know down Gateshead

yeah

they were selling off it was after the Christmas and I think somebody had been painting them

yes

you know when they go into Shepherd's advertising the paints and that

oh I see yes

I think they had been painting it (pause) you see and it had been left standing and she was selling it and my little one was going mad for that picture he says I want that picture mam

yes

and eh I had to buy it for him but it's not we've always been going to finish it off but we've never finished it off

yeah

but he thinks it's lovely

aye

he thinks it's a lovely picture (unclear) cool off bit better (laughter)

(laughter)

now have you to be plugged in (unclear)

no no it's eh works off eh off an accumulator you know you just have to (interruption) you charge it up the night before and then

oh you haven't to be plugged in oh oh then you're set are you oh

thought it would be a bit too much tape moves forward again right

T L S G 5 6 (interruption) right

ta eh well could you tell us first of all where you were born please

on eh Hewit Street on Askew Road

oh yes mm-hm

Gateshead

yes and ehm whereabouts else did you have you lived since then you know how long have you lived round here

oh well I've lived on Askew Road all my life until ehm we were married and then I went as I say onto eh Tyne Road East and from there we got this house here

I see yes so you lived sort of all round the same area in fact

in the one area the Askew Road area practically all my life

until you came up (interruption) here

just this last four years we've been up here

aye yes how did the eh how did those two areas compare with compare you know as places to live which eh which did you prefer

oh I prefer up here

yeah for what sort of things

well I mean the air's better

yes

and the houses are better I mean we do have eh a cleaner place down Askew Road but I have nowhere to play just brick buildings brick back and you know walls and what have you where now I've got a nice garden and the view's better

mm yeah did you think ehm did you think that it was more friendly down there than it is up here you know some people say that's a very (interruption) friendly area

oh I don't think s well it was I mean but ah the older generation was more friendlier than what the younger generation is

yes just

they don't have time for you

mm

nowadays (unclear) are all working and everything but I mean in them days they weren't working

yes

all the women always sort of got together you know they talked together

yes

that's what I find it is now I mean the women the young ones are working they haven't got time for all this neighbourly business

mm were there ehm a lot of people rehoused from the same area up here at (interruption) the same time as you

yeah locally y you know not all in the one street but locally they are they're round about I have met a few of them you know round about that's (pause) come from that area

mm

yes you know

mm eh what do you think of eh Gateshead as a place to live in compared with Newcastle what do you know do you think you would just as soon live in Newcastle

no I wouldn't settle in Newcastle I like Gateshead as a place I mean it's improving every day and I mean in a few years time our children should benefit by it I mean it's a better place now than what it was when I was young

oh yes (interruption) by a long way

there is there's oh dear me I mean it looks as if well that they're doing this and they're doing that and they're not settling on one thing but I mean when our little ones are grown up it'll be lovely

yes yes I think so and eh what do you feel about eh Tyneside as a place to live compared with you know I mean do could you ever see yourself moving away from Tyneside

well the only other place I would go to would be is where my sister lives it's a little country place and that's the only other place I could (interruption) settle

aye where's that then

other than here down Berkshire way Oxford way you know that way on

yes

it's it's a lovely little place we go every year for our holidays and the first chance we get we go down there but as I say that's the only place I would settle other than up here

yeah yeah do you eh do you think Tynesiders are different from people from other parts of the (interruption) country

yes they're better people

are they mm

you couldn't beat them better people altogether than anywhere else only as I say this little village (unclear) I know all the people because I've been there quite a lot well I've been going about twenty year

mm

and I know the village people and I know them and they know me but other than that you can't beat Tyneside

do you think they're more sort of (interruption) friendly

oh yes

aye

doesn't matter where you go you find that they all like the Tynesiders

mm-hm yes

because I used to go to the football matches and wherever we went we were welcome because we were from Tyneside

mm-hm mm-hm ehm (pause) whereabouts were your parents born please were they born locally (interruption) as well

they were born eh Sunderland Road area

in Gateshead

Gateshead uh-huh

and they lived in Gateshead (interruption) more or less all their lives

mm-hm oh they were Tynesiders real thoroughbreds them

(laughter)

they were Tynesiders

and eh what was your father's occupation

he was a eh fitter at Armstrong's Newcastle

aye mm-hm ehm (pause) could you tell us please in which age group you come into on that card if you could just say the letter

what happens if you're in between

oh I don't know just say either (laughter)

well I'm in the middle of them two

I see aye uh-huh (interruption) C and D

(unclear) C and D oh well (unclear) (laughter)

(unclear) it's more trouble than enough this it's just meant to be a polite way of asking people how old they are and (laughter) on what basis you occupy this house again it's presumably C is it

yes it's C that's right

ta eh is your eh husband from Gateshead as well

yes

yes born in Gateshead

mm-hm

aye mm indigenous family you are

mm

eh and eh how many children have you got

just the one

one lad

a little boy yes

how old is he

six

eh you don't work yourself at the moment

no I've never worked not since I had the little boy

no can you tell us eh what eh what jobs you have done in your life you know what ehm what did you do when you first left school

a tai tailoress ehm I was on the s you know sewing machines then worked my way up and then I was a what they call examiner you know

mm-hm

then from there well been at it all my life practically on that eh (pause) same job

aye

until I well when I was married and I had to have the family I ga eh had to give the work up in the factory so after that I went ehm as it happened I I lost that baby and then I didn't want to work anymore but a friend offered me asked me if I would help out at Tyne Tees television in the kitchen staff

mm-hm

and I went there and I was just you know starting to get used to it when I had to give it up to have the little one and I've never worked since that was (unclear)

(unclear)

I don't bother now I'm a lady of leisure

yes do you think you've do you think you've given up work for good now (interruption) (unclear)

yes I (unclear) back to work why should I

(laughter) mm

no fear I don't believe in women working when they've got a family anyway

no

not if they can do without if if they're all right I mean and I find I'm all right I mean there's a lot of things I want but eh (pause) I'll do without I would rather have the pleasure of my little one and (pause) be here when he comes in from school

oh aye yes yes

I think that's the proper way

yeah some women that I talk to say that eh you know that after their at least after the family have grown up they go back to work just to keep themselves busy you know (interruption) (unclear)

yeah they do they do but eh I can find plenty to do I like knitting and sewing and all that sort of thing so I could find plenty to do I'll keep myself occupied and I'll do my garden I like my garden so no I'm not going to work

(laughter)

not that I'm lazy but eh no I'll eh (pause) I'll find plenty I'll keep going I think

yes eh whereabouts did you used to work (unclear) you know when you were a tailoress

the factory do you mean

yeh

the North Eastern clothing company was one and ehm wasn't it Wyman's the other one Wyman's I went to I've only been in the two places

yes mm-hm whereabouts are they

on the Team Valley trading estate

oh they're both on the on the Team Valley

uh-huh just across the road from one another you know

aye yes

I come out the one and went to the other one that's as far as I went

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

fourteen

mm

we had to leave then fourteen

mm

when the war broke out I left

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

well I think I was really I mean them days they hadn't the things that they've got now

aye

I mean we just had to do wor lessons and that was it and now they're doing lessons and they are going to (pause) well sports and they're doing these outings they're taking them on outings and everything we didn't get anything like that we just got wor lessons and it was as dull routine that was it now I think they've got everything

mm

(unclear) hadn't (unclear) we were at school

do you think there's ehm anything wrong with schools these days or do you think it's just all improvement you know since you went

it's improvement

aye

improvement definitely

you don't think that well discipline at school isn't what it used to be

well it isn't but I mean it's up to the parents to discipline

mm

isn't it I think it is

yes mm

I mean if the parents don't bother well why should the school

mm

and I mean if they get disciplined at home they'll be all right at school

yes mm this is one thing that you know most people mention to me they think that schools now they're not eh strict enough for the kids you know

they think they should be stricter do they

yes

yes well maybe but I mean I mean I can't speak much because he's only gone since September

aye

I mean he's only six you know so I'll maybes complain later on

(laughter) yes

whether they're not strict enough well I might have something to say but eh up to now I can't grumble I mean he's he's just starting

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

wey

or have you more or less just put it all behind you

oh no I mean there's there's a lot of it you still think but now the likes of history and geography it never worked with me I don't know wh some might have been interested in it but I was never interested in it and of course to me I thought it was nothing but nowadays it's a lot because you can travel we couldn't travel

aye (pause) yes

well they need it all this geography and th that they need it don't they for their travel

yes

but I mean when we were little we didn't get (unclear) it was a waste of time

yes yes

it was a waste of time it was a waste of time to us as I thought then but not now I wouldn't I would say learn all you can (unclear) that line (interruption) you know

yes yes

but them's only two lessons I divn't like

mm

and I mean your sums and that well you (pause) you have to have the likes of that you have to have reading and writing to learn

yes I suppose you (interruption)

so other that that I used to think French fancy learning French at the the secondary school they used to be posh they used to talk French we used to say well they can keep their French but now they need if they're going abroad don't they

mm

I mean they're taking them abroad now from school

mm-hm yes

so they need it

yes they ehm they us quite often teach French in the primary schools now as well don't they (interruption) (unclear)

now I think they do uh-huh but I've never had anything to do with schooling you see because my little one I was forty year old when I had him well my sister's down the south she had her little boy when (pause) well away form home so I I mean I had nothing to do with the schooling you know for years in between there's a big gap in between what I heard what they were learning at school I'm just picking up now what they're learning at school I'm just finding out what they're what they're doing now that's the trouble

mm-hm eh do you think you would eh would you always advise your own well son let's say

mm-hm

to stay on at school if he possibly could I mean after after sixteen would you advise him (interruption) to stay on if that's

well I think so if he's inclined to be intelligent because I was just saying the other day when they are older they'll have to be intelligent to get a job the way things is going there's no work for anybody that's not intelligent enough

yes

and I mean it'll all be these eh computer machines and that well you have to have the (pause) knowledge haven't you

yes

so I mean I want him to learn all he can anyway for that reason

(unclear)

I don't think there'll be any work for anybody if they're not eh you know up to standard

yes I know what you're talking about yes

I don't think there will

mm do you think ehm this goes as much for girls as for boys you know do you think education's just as important for girls and that sort of thing

oh it's not so important I don't think for girls

ehm eh (pause) you were living ehm when you were fairly young yourself when you were under twelve say you were living in in the teams

uh-huh

eh did you think that it was a you know a good place to live from your point of view as a child there you know did you enjoy your childhood

well I enjoyed my childhood because I had eh parents that used to take we out we used to go what we called Washing Well Woods

oh yes yes

do you know where that is at Lobley Hill

uh-huh

well every weekend they used to take us up there there used to be about six families we all used to go up (pause) and have a good weekend up there you know on a Saturday or a Sunday permi weather permitting and then eh on a Sunday I've seen we all having races in the street the men used to organize races just amongst ourselves because we had nowhere else to play we hadn't anywhere else to go

(unclear)

and then another thing there was these jazz bands that's on now (pause) we used to have them down at Askew Road

mm-hm

and that was another thing that we used to have but other than that I mean eh there was nothing for you

no

so we had to make wor own entertainment

yes

and we used to go up Windmill Hills with a tent only a piece of of blanket and make a tent and take some sandwiches and a bottle of water and that was wor afternoon

(laughter) yes

on a Saturday but we had good times we seen that was great now they don't bother with the likes of that but we did

no most people say (interruption) (unclear)

we often gan on about it now we'll say we had some good times and all o wor families as it happened we were in a street where there was two or three families used to all do that on a weekend and the men they weren't working so of course they were entertaining we

mm-hm

they weren't working there was no jobs for any of the men (pause) then and we used they all used to stand at the street corner till th the little ones was ready and then off we would go take (unclear) for a picnic pushing all the prams and everything up to up to Washing Well Woods and we played in the woods till it till we were all tired out and then we come back home

aye

and that was wor outing we thought more of that than what they do now

yes yeah do you think that ehm you know do you think you were happier then than what kids are now (interruption) (unclear)

oh I think so

mm mm

they're all on the want now you cannot keep them going

yes

my little one I spend pounds on him and he he he keeps want want want want want every time you go out we didn't bother with wanting we were just out and that was it

yeah mm

we were just enjoying it but now you cannot keep them going

mm-hm ehm (pause) these are just eh some questions about some of the words you used to use when you were when you were little probably eh what did you used to call eh a game where one of the kids had to chase the others to try and touch them (pause) and then if he touched a one then it was his turn to touch the to touch the others

oh I've forgot that word

I used to call it tuggy

tuggy tuggy my little one's just starting to say it tuggy tug tug you're on

(laughter) that's right (laughter)

that's it tuggy aye that was the word tuggy

aye and eh what did you used to say when you eh when you wanted to call a halt in a game for some reason you know when you eh say you wanted to stop and tie your shoelace or something and you wanted the game to stop did you used to cross your fingers and (interruption) say (pause)

cross your fingers aye

what did you have to say was there a word you used to say

there was skinchers

aye yes

that's it skinchers

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

marbles

did you not have another word for them

no I just knew them as (interruption) marbles

just marbles uh-huh perhaps perhaps boys (unclear)

was there a different name

well I I used to call them liggies myself (unclear)

now I believe my little one's using that word

aye I know my father used to call them allies

aye

glass allies

glass allies oh I think I've heard my dad call them that glass allies

mm yes people have all sorts of different words (interruption) for these things

uh-huh

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

oh wey you mean the bedroom sitting room and kitchenette

this is the siting room (interruption) is it

uh-huh and the kitchenette uh-huh

and what about what you're in as soon as you come through the front door

that's the call it the passage

the passage yes

some have it b eh different words for it but I just say the passage

like the hallway

the hallway they say the hall but it's still a passage to me (laughter) I suppose that's my bit eh Askew Road (laughter)

(laughter) yeah some people always change it to a hall when they move into (interruption) a new house you know eh

well I ch I changed from a scullery to a back kitchen

ah yes yes (laughter) used to have a kitchen to a living room yes (laughter) eh ehm to get out of eh an old fashioned back door you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

the catch just the catch

yes what about the the sneck do you call it a sneck no

I have heard it called a sneck but we used to just say the the latch I can't remember I don't think I did

mm and eh if you had a coal fire what do you call the thing that you

the shovel

stand no the thing you stand in front of it to get it going you used to have a sheet of tin that you stand in front of it

oh the bleezer

aye

is that it the bleezer mm-hm

aye that's one word for it yes and what did what did you used to call well what do you call eh cleaning the plates and things after a meal

tidied up (unclear)

well no actually puting them in the sink and (interruption) you know

oh the washing up

washing up

uh-huh the washing up

eh could you tell us please just you know how l I how you like to spend your spare time and that you know I mean when you get free time if you ever do that is

well (pause) I do a lot in the garden I'm I'm a keen gardener since I come up here I like to weed it and that but eh I like to see my flowers growed and what have you and they laugh at me up here they say you're always in that garden I say yes but I like it and you're out of anybody's you're out of all the mischief you're in your garden you're not you cannot get blamed for getting into trouble

yes

other than that on a weekend when my husband's off we go for a run somewhere n now I like to sit at the coast just sitting (pause) watching everybody going by and all this that and tother

yes

but I'm easy pleased in that mind some people aren't but I am

you've got a car then

uh-huh so ehm we just take a little run and I tell you where I like Shields

mm mm

I could sit at Shields for hours we're there every Sunday I think

yes

the car goes itself

(laughter) yes

but other than that I'm quite happy in my garden

yes what do you grow in the garden have you got any vegetables

oh we've got all sorts in uh-huh

aye it's useful that (unclear)

potatoes he's got peas in this time that we're never had in

mm

you know pea swabs them ones

aye are they difficult to grow

wey they're about that height now they're canny on so if we get any pea swabs off them that'll be all right the turnips and that oh he's got beetroot in the radishes (pause) lettuce we had leeks in but they went to seed so he had to pull them out they were well you've got to be eh (pause) you've got to have the knowledge to feed leeks

aye

so they g all tell us like but eh nobody'll tell you what they use in case you pinch their (interruption)

case you have their secret (laughter)

in case you get the the leek shows you see

mm mm

they'll not tell you so we just stumble on and we just work on and suit worselves

yes

I mean it's benefit to me so

eh do you watch television very much when you're when you're in

in the winter I watch it but eh as I say in the summer we never bother with it we're just out in the garden back or front it's either the flowers or the vegetables

(unclear)

and if it's fine in the afternoons I go and take my knitting and sit in the garden so the television's not on

it's not really even on during the (interruption) summer

no not very much of the summer

mm eh these are just a few questions about your opinions on things (interruption) ehm

uh-huh

what do you think that eh parents should do when their children misbehave you know what sort of action should they take

thump them sometimes

yes (pause) very often

mine gets thumped well now I'm starting to send him upstairs and he knows then he's he's done wrong and he'll not come down until I tell him

mm-hm mm

and I've seen him you know I've seen his dad say to him come on come on downstairs (NAME) he says no mam sent us up so I'm staying here till my mam sa says I can come down so I think well there you are I mean he's only six he's learning now so I could just do that action

mm mm

just send him up there when I think he's been naughty and just send him up

yes

and it must learn him that he's done it so I'll keep that up until something else c till it's no good

yes

I used to thump him but it doesn't work so (laughter) (pause) thumps isn't always the the way to do it

true true eh mm what do you think about you know a young person of sixteen or so do you think they should be more or less allowed to do as they want or not (unclear)

well I think that's half the trouble today they're getting too much of their own way

mm

I wouldn't I mean I know I'm I'm speaking soon for mine he's only six but I'm not going to let him do as he likes and he's not going to set his cheek up to me the way I hear others setting their cheek up because I would box his ears

yes

there would be half the teenage trouble if they were boxed

aye

there would I mean they're just left to roam the streets and all this trouble and the then the mothers and that's crying I say well yous have asked for it

mm mm

there's one two or three doors down he's always in trouble but I mean their parents go out so what can they expect

yes

they don't bother with their family

yes

I mean if they were checked they wouldn't be such daft

yes

teenagers the way there are I would give them some work to do keep them o keep them occupied

yeah do you think would you want to sort of eh be able to say what time they came in at night for instance

well a reasonable time because I had a strict father and I had many a bat for not being in at nine o'clock and I was (unclear)

oh dear (laughter)

phworgh he's batted me all the way down the street (laughter) come to meet us come in come in nine o'clock and I was fourteen then

yeah

but I mean I would give them a reasonable time I mean I wouldn't let them come in late

aye

for a reasonable time or if they were going somewhere and I knew what they were going to be late that's all right but I had a strict father and I wouldn't like to be as strict as what he was

yes

I mean you don't these days we know I mean he had to be maybe in them days but by gum I had many a thump for being late

mm mm eh going on to something else now and this is a question you don't have to answer if you don't want because some people don't eh which way do you vote do you usually tell people

well I'll have to say it because I'm in the Labour party I've got my badge and I'm a one of the the members you know

oh I see yes oh well that's that's I I've just joined it myself strangely enough

uh-huh this is the committee rooms when they they're voting

when the elections are on

uh-huh

aye aye I see yeah yes

uh-huh have you been in the which where do you belong

eh Bensham

oh you're in the Bensham ward are you

yes (unclear) ward

uh-huh aye I was at a meeting on Monday night eh as a matter of fact (unclear) it was eh not for a eh everybody it was just for the delegates and that you know

yes I was at the eh management committee meeting on Tuesday night

oh

for the it was just for the you know the first time I'd been there (interruption) (unclear)

oh you've just joined have you I've been in about three year I think

mm have you eh

raining

oh (laughter) (pause) have you always been eh you know fairly committed to the th to the Labour party

well in my young days I used to go round the streets is that switched on

yes

oh I used to go around the streets you know when the man used to ring the bell and that and go around

aye

when I was only little I used to think that was good I used to go around with them and then as I got older I used to go to these meetings

yes

you know listening to the men fighting with them all and then (pause) I have sister she was keen and she joined but I didn't join she joined and you know the papers and that that they write for the election

mm

she used to bring them all home and we used to sit up till all hours writing them out and then she emigrated to New Zealand so of course I lost space with it all you know I sort of forgot about it and then when I come up here two or three doors further down they were I forget now what it was I think must have been an election or something so we were agitating for railings up at the bottom of the gardens they they put high railings so far and then they stopped

aye

well we wanted them up you see because anybody could come over your garden

oh yes yes

so they s they said well why don't you come to the meetings and state your case

yes

so off we the three of us went and then I was interested and I says eeh I used to be interested in these meetings so they asked we to join so I says oh I'll join I like anything like that

mm-hm

so since then I joined and we've been going as I say I'm the only one that left of the three of them that's kept it up

yes

and I'm eh chairman for the ladies section the women's section

oh I see yes yes

we go every Wednesday night ehm up at Wrekenton here

yes

oh we have a good meeting there's about seventeen attends now you know it's building up (pause) building up

is that (pause) eh seventeen in the women's section

mm-hm

(unclear)

well that's good

very good yeah

it's good because the other sections is all seem to dropping off but ours is building up

yes

so we're not doing so bad

aye (pause) what did you think about you know the last Labour government did you think that they you know do you think (interruption) they carried out a reasonable eh

I mean I don't know the circumstances that they had to deal with but I mean left a bit longer I think they would have been all right

mm

they just didn't get the chance

aye

they were just getting on their feet just sorting things out when they were put out I think if they'd been at it a little bit longer we might have seen a big difference

yes (interruption) (unclear)

we're a damn sight worse off since (unclear) them lot come in so

(laughter)

I hope them that put them in's satisfied with them

aye I think there must be a lot of people regretting it now

phworgh I'll say they are they thought they were clever but they're and he's not so clever as he made out he's never bothered hisself

eh if eh we could just go on now to talk about about the thing we're most interested in that's the way you talk and that and what you think about the way people talk eh firstly do you think that you ever consciously change the way you talk according to you know the people you're talking to

mm mm yes I do

yes in what sort of circumstances

well I tell you why I mean I do at eh where we go to Berkshire as I say for my holidays to my sister's now she talks they still say she talks Tyneside but she doesn't you know but it's the atmosphere and that and the people talking to you now they can't understand my husband when I go because he's broad and I have to repeat everything he says

yes

they can't unders so naturally I'm talking a bit like them

aye

and when by the time I come home I'm saying half of their words

oh so you use it affects you (unclear)

you sort of you've got to speak a bit like them and then by the end of y your holidays well you're practically

you've changed

you know you tongue is a little bit different (pause) you know

do you think eh on a fairly long term sort of basis do you think your speech has always been the same during your life

I think so

same now as what it was when you were

mm mm I think so uh-huh

do you think that eh do you approve of people talking in Tyneside accents (unclear) do you like Tyneside accents

I don't think I do really not to the the broadness Tyneside's all right but not the very broad this ye divn na and that oh I think it sounds terrible

yes

it does lower the I mean it's not a (pause) I don't know how to say it it's not necessary to talk like that I mean you can talk Tyneside without it

aye you mean that eh you know

not the very broad

an accent like yours is it's recognisably Tyneside

it is Tyneside

but it's all right

and I don't like this yoo know yoo know where yoo gooing and all this I don't like that way of talk I just like to talk ordinary and the way it's written down in black and white to read for you to read

aye

not eh this polite way of going on

yes do you think people who talk like that are sort of putting it on

they are I mean you don't learn it that way I don't think you do

eh no but perhaps you

you don't learn it your not lear you're not taught it that way

some people learn it that way (unclear)

course as I say it's where you come from isn't it

uh-huh yes

it's the area you come from where it'll be taught like

yes that's why I say I think you know I think some people do learn it that way in the in the first

mm mm you know when they say yoo know yoo know (unclear) you know

yes

it might be me it might just be me now I don't know but

eh (pause) so presumably you would sort of correct your son if he was if he talks in very broad eh accent

mm-hm (pause) I do

yeah yeah (pause) eh (pause) you know when you hear the newsreaders on television

mm-hm

reading out the news eh how does their sort of accent strike you do you like that kind of speech

well I think most of them's all right most of them I don't think there's many talks a little bit too much is there really not eh sort of putting it on is there there's not a lot of them does it there's one or two but

mm mm

I'll tell you who I don't like that girl on Tyneside eh programme

oh

what they call her

I don't know because I I I don't watch television myself

ohh dear me you'd think she had a marble in her mouth

you mean does is she like very (unclear)

she tries to talk put it on

aye (pause) yes yes (unclear)

you'd think she had a marble in her mouth

I suppose the reason you think that is because she you know she was probably born with a not born but she started off with a Tyneside (interruption) accent (unclear) picked it up differently

that's it uh-huh (pause) mm-hm

whereas somebody like Robert Dougal's probably had the same accent all his life

that's it mm-hm that's it

do you eh do you know anybody yourself by the way who talks you know in that way fairly BBC ish

I can't say I can like eh

no not many of them around really is there

no I don't think so not really

yeah (pause) what would you say about ehm about my accent from listening to it now

well I think you're more or less like myself aren't you

(unclear)

I mean you're not broad and you're not eh putting it on sort of you're more or less you are Tyneside but (pause) not rubbing it in that you're Tyneside but I mean you can go anywhere with it

oh it's heartening to hear that I get quite a lot of people who deny that I come from Tyneside at all but I mean I would have thought it was fairly obvious that I come from Tyneside

uh-huh oh yes uh-huh that's why I asked you whereabouts you come from because I thought you were about the same as what I am I think mm-hm

yes I think so as well

mm-hm

eh anyway eh do you think you could just read that list of words for us please fairly quickly straight down

oh just all the words down

mm

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 rule book good maker wafer happy harry (unclear) Mary yes better something fall witch apple television absent realize Newcastle Seahouses method concert descend chocolate explain industry condemn tissue with and film

thank you now eh I'm going to read out a list of words and for each one they're all fairly local words you know

mm-hm

I would just like to know firstly if you're familiar with it and secondly if you use it

mm-hm mm-hm

eh aside for beside

yes

you say it's just aside the fire

yes aside the fire aye

ehm bairn

oh I often say the bairn I know that's broad like but Tyneside

bait

mm-hm I use that

eh bonny

yes sometimes

eh bray

bray

bray for to hit

no I don't eh no

eh bullets

for sweets well I used to but I don't now

yes

I think you grow out of that sort

yes eh clamming

clamming

yes

(unclear) I used to use it but eh

used to but you don't now eh (pause) boody

oh we used to collect boodies they're broken china we used to collect that

do you ever hear it

never hear it now

because you (unclear) you never see any (laughter)

never hear it mentioned now

ehm (pause) coin coin a corner

it's funny eh I eh my dad used to use that but I never hear it now my dad was a one for using it he used to keep saying I'll coin around that corner coin you know but I never hear it since he died and eh you know you don't seem to use it or hear it

eh cree

what's that for then

eh w wh what you've got out in the garden (unclear)

oh the shed

aye

oh no

do you not

no

well ehm fettle

oh I'll fettle that

fettle something

yes I have used that yes

eh gully

uh-huh that's a knife isn't it

aye

oh I used to hear it in my young days but you don't think you ever hear it now you don't think you ever hear it now do you

oh my mother in law uses it (unclear)

does she oh I've never heard it

course I mean she's quite old (unclear)

an old person might still call it but I don't think they do now

eh howk

no

no you wouldn't use it eh lowe (pause) for a flame or a light

no

never heard it (pause) it's pretty rare

mm

mense be more to your mense to get some work done

oh I've often said that (unclear)

yes eh (pause) parky

for when they're for their food and that isn't it

aye

oh yes I've used that uh-huh

varnigh

I've heard it but I don't think I use it myself I don't think so

mell

what's that for then

a hammer

na

never heard it

no

it's just men who use that I think

mm-hm

knool to be knooled

well I mean I have used it (pause) but I I was when I was little we used to say oh we were knooled when we were little but eh (interruption) well I mean you don't say it now really but I have used it

(laughter) (pause) you don't hear it now very much do you not

no

now eh more or less on the same lines I'm going to read out this list of sentences and for each one I would just like to know eh whether it sounds normal to you you know

uh-huh

and whether it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstance arose like

mm-hm

ehm (pause) some people the trouble is some people insist on sort of harking back to their school days you know and eh

mm-hm

remembering what they were taught about grammar when they were at school but (pause) you know I'm not interested in that I'm just interested in you know whether you think you could say it in ordinary conversation

in ordinary (unclear) uh-huh and that's right in these days (unclear)

ehm were you wakened last night when I came in

yes I do say that uh-huh

were you wakened eh I was still abed when you called this morning

yes

yes he never gave us any

mm-hmm

do you not go there very often

yes I've used that

they're useless them

yes I've used

me and John went to the races on Saturday

no I I would say it the other way

say John and I

and I uh-huh

eh I might could manage it

uh-huh yes

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

I think I would say that

it's ower big to get through there

I don't think I would say that

you know my cousin that her husband died

uh-huh

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

uh-huh

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

uh-huh

they go to the pictures of a Sunday

uh-huh

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

possible I think

eh these ones are pretty big to them others

possible uh-huh

eh here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

I think so I think I might say it aye

eh I think we are going to be soon for the picture

uh-huh

eh would you mind stop talking

yes

do you want a cup of tea making

yes

you know him that used to work on the railways

yes

he happened a nasty accident

mm-hm

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

mm-hmm

I wanted for to talk to you about it

no

no when did it happen you

no

eh I've got money belonging him

uh-huh yes

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

yes

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

yes

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

yes

we've been waiting of a bus

yes

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

yes

I don't bother much about the television and that

uh-huh

there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought

well I don't know

what we had brought

what we had brought (unclear)

eh many people were there there

I don't think so

no you would say how many

how many mm-hm

where did you get it at

mm-hm I've said that

never mind I'll manage but

I think I've said that

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

sometimes I have said it yes

yes

no the wonder uh-huh

eh me and George is going to the town today

I would say it the other way round

yes eh Jack didn't think much to the race

I could do uh-huh I could say that

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

mm-hm

they'd not seen it

they'd not seen it

they'd not seen it

no I wouldn't

you wouldn't say

they hadn't seen it

they hadn't seen it you know mm-hm it's far too long this

well I do say that sometimes I think

how's your wife and family then

yes

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

no I'd just say he was working late Joe couldn't come like

what is it he does for a living

yes

yes he wants his wages paid immediately

yes

eh just light the fire on will you

yes

I'll clout yous both in a minute

(laughter) yes

how much have they offered we

not we

no (pause) eh pass us one of them spanners

aye

eh I've broke a plate

aye

I come this morning but you weren't in

came

you would say came would you

I think so

he done it all right

uh-huh

eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

yes

uh-huh he give us a pound for doing it

yes

we had went we had went to the coast for the day

well I could do well yes

I seen Albert on Tuesday

yes

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

yes I probably would say that aye

yes that's what happens when you be naughty

that's right (laughter)

I'll probably seeing her Saturday

yes

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

yes

ehm you've letten him get away

yes I've said that before

my mother's keep coming in to see us

yes

we'll sharp get this done

yes

he's as Tyneside as what I am

(unclear) probably I generally say he's (pause) more Tyneside (unclear)

(laughter) would you say he's more Tyneside than what I am

he's more Tyneside than what I am mm

(unclear) you used to sweep the floor and us used to wash the dishes

we used to wash the dishes

and eh nearly finished now could you give us eh the opposite of I'll be going there this week

I would sort of like ehm

eh like (pause) I'll not be going there this week or I won't be going there this week

I won't I would say uh-huh I won't be going uh-huh

right the opposite of he's got some

he's got none

ta eh the opposite of he's seen that picture

he's seen that picture you mean he (pause) he hasn't seen that picture oh that's it yes

eh the opposite of you're working late tonight

you're not working late

aye eh the opposite of I gave him one

I didn't is that it

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

have you got a match please

ta eh could you just finish off this sentence in a way that seems rational eh I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

do it today

ta

is that right

that's it