right

T L S G thirty four

(unclear) (pause) ehm (pause) it's a bit like the census all over again this but eh (pause) (unclear) could you tell us ehm where you were born please

here (laughter)

in this house

yes

you've lived here all your life

yes

mm ta eh (pause) and eh (pause) so in fact you've never been away from Tyneside for any very long periods

no (pause) just holidays

just for holidays (unclear) ehm (pause) and eh where were your parents born please

mehm where were you born

(laughter)

(laughter)

where was who born

you

Gateshead

whereabouts

Tyne Road East

were you (unclear)

where's dad born

oh (unclear) South Shields

aye I see see that's fine thanks (pause) and eh what's ehm your father's occupation

transport manager

eh (pause) up the (pause) (unclear)

Henry Colbeck

oh I see (unclear) ehm (pause) eh (pause) what about ehm do you think would you say that you liked living in Gateshead very much do you think it's a reasonable place to live or not

it's all right but there's nothing to do

aye do you go into the town like (interruption) most of the (unclear)

(unclear) the town

aye (pause) it's probably where you were all the times when I was (unclear) eh (pause) would you eh does that mean eh that you would rather live in Newcastle for instance

I would rather live in Newcastle but these won't go

aye (pause) why do you think that is like are they

probably because they've been here all their lives

aye (pause) but that doesn't effect you

(unclear)

(unclear) how would you feel about ehm (pause) moving anywhere else in the country

not in the country I'd just rather go to Newcastle (interruption) or stay in Gateshead

aye (pause) aye but would you rather be on Tyneside in fact (interruption)

yes

mm mm (pause) ehm (pause) eh is there anywhere else in Gateshead that you would rather live apart from here

well I'd rather live here but if this was a nicer area (interruption) because there's nothing here now

(unclear)

it's all just getting pulled down (interruption) but it's the handiest part of Gateshead to live in

aye that's true (pause) oh (interruption) I see (pause) (unclear)

because its easier for the town if you live in Low Fell you've got miles to go

that's true aye yeah and that's what that's that (unclear) you think that's the main advantage of living here like (interruption) do you (unclear) central point

mm-hm

ehm (pause) now (pause) could you tell us ehm which age group you fall into please just say the letter that

A

ta (pause) it's just there're some people are a bit touchy about telling (unclear) eh and you're not married

no

mm (pause) ehm (pause) eh (pause) could you tell us (unclear) card (pause) ehm how you're occupying this house you know just say the letter again

E

ta (pause) ehm (pause) eh whereabouts do you work

Lyle and Scotts on the trading estate

(unclear) have you got what do they do

(unclear) y front

(laughter) (unclear) oh well (laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) that's like an interesting occupation is it eh is it a good job

yeah

aye (pause) yeah (pause) what's eh could you tell us eh more or less what eh what it's like you know what your working (interruption) working day involves like is s sewing or (interruption) (unclear)

(interruption) machining (pause) all the time (interruption) yeah

ehm (pause) is that eh the first job you've had is it

yeah it's the only job I've had

yeah (pause) eh (pause) ehm (pause) you know (pause) is there ehm (pause) what eh what age were you when you left school

fourteen

fourteen yeah (pause) eh

I worked the day I left

ehm is there any eh (unclear) is there any job that you would rather do do you think or are you fairly happy where you are

I'd like to live abroad

would you (unclear) (unclear) I didn't ask you that question earlier like you would (unclear) you wouldn't go anywhere else in England but you would like to go abroad

yeah

yeah for what what reasons do you think

the weather

aye (pause) ehm (pause) now eh I'd like to ehm to ask you for some words that you might use in in various situations you know so just eh say the thing that comes most naturally to you you know if eh if nothing comes naturally you just say nothing you know ehm (pause) eh can you think of any words for somebody who's sort of ehm (pause) got loads of nerve you know who's very you know like you know cheeky and upish and this sort of thing thinks he can get away with anything do you know (unclear) expression (interruption) (unclear)

(unclear) cannot think of it (unclear) the moment

(unclear) ehm (pause) here's one that you must have a word for if ehm if somebody's had too much to drink he's

well mortal for a start

yeah yeah (laughter) what other words do you use in that cir in those circustances

had a few too many

aye (pause) (unclear)

(unclear) think (laughter)

now (pause) if ehm if you had something stacked away on a high shelf could you use the expression it was up a height (pause) do you say that

(unclear) in a corner

(unclear) ehm (pause) eh (pause) could you say about a ehm a tool or something this'll do the job clever

this'll do the job well

ta ehm (pause) what do you call eh the thing a bricklayer's labourer carries bricks in over his shoulder

couldn't tell you

you don't know oh well yeah that's an original answer (laughter) there's some questions like are more you know are more for men you know but I have to ask the whole lot ehm (pause) you were eh fourteen when you left school

yeah

yeah and eh (pause) w were you glad to leave school

eh (pause) I was fourteen (pause) we left on the Friday and I was fifteen on the Monday

aye I see yeah and but I mean h did you enjoy school or not

oh it was all right

yeah but eh do you think that how (interruption)

I wouldn't like to go back but

aye but do you think you would have liked to stay there

no

no (pause) eh (pause) and eh you haven't had any education since nights classes or anything

no

mm ehm (pause) how much ehm would you say that your education's been worth to you (pause) since then I mean in your job for instance (interruption) do you think it's been worth anything (interruption) (unclear)

(interruption) nothing (interruption) (unclear) worth anything

yeah and (pause) outside your job the same

the only thing it's been good for was learning to read and write

aye aye this is what a lot of people say you know yeah ehm (pause) so ehm if you've got this sort of reaction to your own education do you think that (pause) ehm (pause) eh education is is very important I mean

it's not important but I think everyone should have it

aye just for the the sort of basic stuff like

mm-hm

mm (pause) y you wouldn't think eh you think I mean you'd think that fifteen was at the best age for people to (interruption) leave school

(unclear) fifteen is still the best age

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) and eh (pause) you've been living here since eh since you were born in fact so (interruption) you were here when you were

I was born here

aye ehm (pause) do you think that eh was this a very good place to live when you were a a a a a child you know did you eh did you play around a lot for instance (interruption) aye

uh-huh there's the park down the bank

that's right aye (interruption) (unclear) what

not much of it there now like but

yeah they're going to build a school or something aren't they

they've built a school

oh I see aye

it's up now

right (pause) eh (pause) can you eh think of any of the games that you used to play when you were young I mean can you tell me (interruption) (unclear)

tap and (unclear)

aye

skippies (pause) hidey

can you tell us ehm the rules of any of the games that you used to play for instance

just tuggy on high you had to be on the (pause) on like on a wall or a curb or something (pause) you couldn't be on the road

aye

but if you were off they could catch you or something

oh I see they could catch you when they weren't on something

uh-huh

yeah yes I see yeah ehm (pause) what do you call eh a game where one of the players chases the others to try to touch them

chasey or tuggy

ta ehm and what do you say about the person who has to chase the others

they are on

ta and eh do you have any methods of deciding who's going to be on

oh you used to stand along the walls and do that thing where you used to go along your hands what did they call it it wasn't (unclear)

(unclear)

(unclear) something like that and the one that was left

that's right yeah (pause) takes you back you know (laughter) eh (pause) and eh what do you say when you want to ehm call a halt in a game for some reason

ally oukins we used to shout (laughter)

mm ta and what about crossing your fingers like that

oh ally oukin and then you used to go up and you'd s stand like that

aye

and that was to let them know that you were just having like a break to explain something

aye aye I see yeah ehm (pause) what do you call eh (pause) a game where you throw a ball to a batsman and if you catch him out three times you're you're in

cannot remember

perhaps you didn't play it (unclear)

I can remember playing it but I cannot remember what it was

yeah ehm (pause) can you tell us ehm what you normally call eh the rooms of the house going through them one by one

bedroom and bathroom kitchen and scullery

this is the kitchen and that's the scullery

mm-hm

yeah ehm (pause) and eh to get out of the back door you have to lift the

just pull the door

no you have to lift the

oh no we haven't got it oh the barn door the yar in the yard

yes probably

yeah you've got to lift the sneck

ta ehm (pause) (laughter) trouble is you don't know what people's back doors are like you know (laughter)

(unclear) (laughter)

(laughter) (pause) ehm what do you call the thing that you sweep the floor with by hand

carpet sweeper oh the brush

aye ta and ehm the thing that you sew with

needle

ta ehm and eh (pause) when you had a coal fire if ever what do you call the thing that you stand in front of it to get it going

bleezer

and you can talk about bleezing it up

yeah

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

washing the dishes

ta ehm (pause) can you tell us ehm since you're obviously such an active person can you tell us how you ehm spend your spare time and that you know (pause) the evenings and weekends

drinking (laughter) parties

yeah aye

and pictures

where do you go drinking

the town (pause) Newcastle

aye (pause) eh do you watch television very much

just the comedy programmes

aye

I think that the television's boring

aye (pause) and eh (unclear) your favourite programmes are comedy ones are they

yeah

mm stuff like what for instance

Doctor At Large

oh yeah

Sid James

it's it's a good laugh that s has Sidney James got a a series on now like

no his went off like fortnight ago

oh I see aye I haven't got a television me like I just get to watch it at my mother's sometimes ehm (pause) eh do ehm do you know the people who live around this area very well I mean are your friends (interruption)

I never bother anybody round this area

no your friends are from sort of elsewhere (interruption) (unclear)

oh I've got a few round here

aye

but they're like shifting out

aye oh aye

to different places

you don't sort of know all the people on the block or anything like that

well I know most of the people on the block (interruption) but we never bother with them (interruption)

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) ehm (pause) do you think do you think there's anything that you would miss about this area if you had to leave it

not really because I don't bother anybody here

aye (pause) if you got ehm if you had the chance of a a slightly better paid job somewhere else in the country do you think you would go slightly better paid

well (pause) if it was abroad then I would definitely go

aye

but if it was in England no

oh

because if you're going away you're leaving all your friends

mm-hm

you've just got to make new ones well you might as well stop where you are and you've got the old ones

aye yes that's true but eh do you think that going abroad would be sort of worth the plunge

I would like to take it

mm-hm

it's an experience

mm yeah (pause) now ehm if we could eh if we could go on to eh the sort of thing that we're most interested or in like that's ehm the way you talk and that you know and what you think about the way people talk ehm (pause) do you think that you ever change the way you speak according to who you're talking to

yes

you're sure you do

I do

such as for instance when do you think you change it

well if I'm talking to the boss at work

aye

well I talk all right to him because he's Scotch and he like he talks quick and you don't know how to speak to him and so if you just talk plain (pause) he understands (interruption) easier

oh I see aye s so you think I mean you talk less eh (pause) less localized let's say (interruption) (unclear)

mm-hm if I'm talking to a a stranger who's older I talk properly to them

a stranger who's older

you know like (interruption) about forty

yeah (pause) aye but not a stranger who's your own age

well I talk just the normal to my dad

aye

but ehm (pause) if if I'm out with like one of his friends

uh-huh (pause) aye

who's not a very close friend I'd talk properly to him but if it was somebody like (NAME) I'd just talk any way to him

this is t I mean this is true even if even if you th sort of even if you think the stranger comes from near here (interruption) so

mm-hm well the manager I know most managers (pause) well a few because I know the one in about half dozen bars

aye

if I'm talking to them I'll talk to them properly like (unclear) impression of us

(laughter)

(laughter) yeah (pause) but what about the barman

barman oh they are all right because usually I'm talking to the manager the barman's there

aye

and they (pause) they just like listen on well they expect us talk like that so I just talk the same to them

aye oh I see yes very int eh (pause) do you think ehm do you think you're talking now differently from the way you normally talk

no

you're talking normally now

yeah

eh (pause) oh that's good (pause) it's because I'm not a stranger in your (unclear) (laughter) eh (pause) but ehm on the whole would you say that that you like to hear people talking in in a local accent

no it sounds terrible

do you think so

it sounds horrible if you play a tape and you listen back to it

aye that's true like but I mean this is true even though even though you s (interruption) you speak in a fairly localized (unclear)

I've I was going to write in to the telly (unclear) have you heard that advert the Tynerider

no

the travel intercity it sounds terrible (interruption) it's got we talking worse slang than we ever than we ever talk (interruption)

(interruption) (laughter) (interruption) (unclear)

well I kept saying to my mam I'm going to write in I'm (interruption) going to write in but it was the postal strike and I never got it wrote in

(laughter) (pause) because you think that you think they misrepresent you do they (interruption) on the telly

uh-huh well they they'll be showing that advert all over and people'll be saying do they really sound like that up there do they really sound like that

(laughter)

we're not that bad

(laughter) aye well why do you think it is that they you know I mean why do you dislike the way that that people talk in

it's just well when I listen to somebody from London and places like that I think they sound terrible because they seem to be thinking every word they're before they say it because they say it they like drags on and on as we are trying to get as many words out as (interruption) as quick as we can

aye aye (pause) aye do you think that (interruption) people talk faster here (interruption) in

(interruption) the way I think (interruption) oh they do

(unclear)

because when I was on my holidays they were all like they thought I was foreign

(unclear)

because there was three of we and we were talking quick (pause) and then we met this other couple from eh and they were like talking as quick as us

mm

and they all just sat looking at we because if we we could be talking about somebody and they wouldn't know we're talking about them because we were talking that quick

yeah (pause) but if if ehm (pause) if you sort of disapprove of ehm the way people talk here and disapprove of the way people talk in London what do you think say a good eh what do you think is a decent way to talk

I don't know

(laughter)

just (pause) some people you know they try to be better than others by the way they talk

aye

and then they go on and on I like the way Joe Lampton talks (laughter)

(laughter) who's j who's Joe Lampton (unclear) (laughter)

I don't know (unclear) real name but he's daft you know the Joe Lampton the Man At The Top on the television

eh (pause) oh th that's a series they did isn't it

uh-huh

from that book

and everybody was writing the critics in (interruption) about his language

who is it is it Lawrence Harvey

aye that's him

aye that's right aye

I like the way (interruption) he talks

but he's from Yorkshire isn't he is he

is he

I don't know (unclear)

I think he was meant to be

I think he is from Yorkshire

I think he's meant to be from Yorkshire yeah

yeah

because there was a film on eh (pause) (interruption) a few sun

he won the award last week or something didn't he

yeah

mm a few Sundays ago there was a film on called Life At The Top or something

yeah (pause) where (interruption) they showed you how he got to the top (interruption)

(interruption) but that was a self contained film like (interruption) aye

they had Life At The Top and then Room At The Top and then there was the Man At The Top

I think Room At The Top was the original wasn't it there was the that was the first book that (interruption) (unclear)

aye he wanted to know if there was Room At The Top for him and then when he got to the top they were showing what life was at the top now when he got to the very top (interruption) there was the Man At The Top

(interruption) that's right aye but the series was like eh (pause) eh is it a serial or is it a (interruption) different story every week like

(unclear) no (interruption) (unclear)

it's a serial

oh I see uh-huh (pause) aye

because they're continued because he left his wife one week and then he was still leaving her the next week he came back and he (interruption) brought all the money and threw it at her

aye oh I see aye aye aye yeah (unclear) yeah ehm (pause) but eh (pause) do you think that eh if somebody talks eh (unclear) in the same way as you do I mean do you feel that eh do you think that you're likely to get on with them better for instance (interruption) (unclear)

well but I don't know because well there's a lot of people when we're on wor holidays from London and them places

aye

and (pause) they were friendly enough but it was just certain ones

(unclear)

you couldn't get on with

aye yeah I kn

it's just like here you meet somebody you can get on with and somebody you can't get on with

aye that's yeah that's true like (unclear) mm (pause) ehm (pause) if you could imagine eh the way the eh the newsreaders talk on television you know

mm-hm

ehm do you approve of that way of speaking I mean do you have well do you let's say (interruption) (unclear)

yes well they've got to really because they've got to talk clear so everybody can understand

aye and do you think that ehm it's it's it's mainly a matter of understanding do you it's mainly (pause) a matter that

well other people don't understand like if you talk like that outside but whether they do or not they've got to

mm-hm yeah

because if they were coming out with a mouthful of slang

mm-hm

and they're two from different places they'll be saying (interruption) what's he saying what's she saying what's he mean

aye (pause) aye

so

but do you think that eh (pause) I mean what if you heard somebody talking like that you know in a pub or something what do you think you would (pause) what would you think about them

oh it wouldn't mean anything because I'd just listen to them see what they were saying

(unclear)

because it's easier to listen to if they're talking slower

aye ehm (pause) what eh what sort of things in general do you think that eh you can tell about people from the way they speak you know I mean are you normally (interruption) (unclear)

well if they're sh like talk sharp you know they're like bad tempered lads the best

aye

to keep away from them

uh-huh yeah lots of people say that what about ehm do you think you could guess anything about the kind of job they do for instance

well if they shout they could be a bingo caller (laughter)

(laughter) that's (unclear) (pause) inventive (pause) what about I mean would you say ehm (pause) that the people who work with you talk differently from people I mean in you know I don't know in different jobs

no because we're always shout (unclear) (laughter)

aye you've never li you you you don't notice the kind of job thing about it or

which well the machines are on all the time so you've got to shout to hear be heard

aye (laughter)

(laughter) even though they can hear at the other end of the place like

(laughter) yeah it probably affects your speech you know (interruption) (unclear) the rest of your life (unclear) (laughter)

I never get (unclear) like and you're shouting away and then everybody's looking at you

uh-huh (pause) ehm (pause) when you're ehm (pause) in other parts of the country on holiday for ins eh do do people usually guess that you come from Tyneside

yeah

yeah (pause) is is that one of the occasions when you try to change the way you speak or not

you try to talk slower

aye

if you go somewhere and you're trying to explain something to somebody

uh-huh but they can still they they they still always (interruption) tell that you come from here

they still pick the Geordie (unclear)

yeah (pause) mm (pause) and eh (pause) perhaps slightly more odd question when you're sort of somewhere else on Tyneside do people ever guess that you come from Gateshead

a lot of people do

is that right (interruption) (unclear)

if you go up Consett or (pause) Birtley way or something they say you're a Geordie

oh I see yes they can guess that you come from like Newcastle or Gateshead

the Newcastle Gateshead area

mm but not I mean (pause) th this wouldn't be true in Newcastle say

ah no but there's like we are they are like classed the same as us

think they're more or less the same yeah (pause) and it's people from eh (pause) like a few miles away (interruption) from here who can usually tell the difference

mm-hm (pause) a few miles outside

and you can tell (pause) (interruption) somebody somebody from Consett for instance

you can tell (unclear) because if you listen from someone from ehm Washington

aye

(unclear) I'm not picking on (unclear) because there's a lad (interruption) from work (unclear) comes from Washington

(laughter)

you know they they seem to have different ways they say what what does (NAME) say oh if she's going to bed she'll say I went to bead early last night

does she

she never says bed it's 'bead'

(unclear)

and they says 'the naaght'

'the naaght'

yes aye that's right aye most people say they can tell you know

mm-hm

people who come from (pause) as far away as Washington you know (pause) a bloke eh I was talking to a bloke the other day who also says he can tell the people come from Felling you know

yes there's just that little difference (interruption) you see and

mm-hm yeah of course he had lived in Felling ehm (pause) let's see where I'm up to (pause) now yes (pause) could you eh (pause) read out (pause) that list of words for us please just straight down from the top to the bottom

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 (laughter)

it's very similar (laughter) similar in (unclear)

(laughter)

keep going

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

thanks eh (pause) now ehm

happy Harry what a one to put on

(laughter) (unclear)

(unclear) called happy Harry

ah yeah (unclear) eh now eh I'm going to read out a list of words and eh I want to know for each one ehm if you know what it means and secondly eh if you hear it used pretty often and thirdly if you use it yourself right (pause) eh ahint meaning beside

you take the hint you like drop (interruption) (unclear)

no no I mean ahint like ahint the wall or something behind

oh (unclear) the road

no (pause) but you're vaguely familiar with it are you

just taking the hint

aye

(unclear)

eh (pause) aside for beside

just it's aside to here or it's beside here

you do say it's aside though do you

it's aside

oh mm ehm (pause) bairn

ben

bairn little (interruption) bairn

bairn oh the bairn uh-huh (laughter)

you do use that

yep

and you hear it

you still hear it

very good aye eh bait

taking the bait to work

aye eh beck

oh not now

no eh but you know what it means

yeah 'beck and call'

ah no (interruption) I meant (pause) a little stream (interruption)

(interruption) I (unclear) (unclear) (interruption) oh no

no eh (pause) bonny

bonny little lassie (laughter)

aye you use it do you oh ehm bray

yes

mm-hm eh bullets

what

bullets

ah bullets uh-huh

you use it

(unclear)

regularly

oh not regularly because I don't eat sweets now

aye (laughter) (pause) eh boody (pause) do you know what it means

no

no (unclear) didn't use to play with it when you were little did you

what was it

I think it's (interruption) china and that that you (interruption)

(interruption) like (unclear) (interruption) china and bonny coloured glass

that's right aye

a ken

before my time

it's before your time yeah (pause) eh clarts

clarts (unclear)

you sti you (interruption) still use it yeah

still use it

eh coin

coin

corner you know (pause) you don't use it

no

no eh cree

(unclear)

(unclear) do you know what it means

no

no pigeons and (unclear) eh dunch

dunch into somebody

aye

yeah

you do use it mm ehm dwalm

(laughter)

haven't come across anybody who's heard that like (pause) ehm (interruption)

what is it

I think it's kind of a funny fit that comes over you like a dwalm you know this (interruption) sort of

uh-huh she's often had that

(laughter)

(laughter) yes yeah (pause) fettle

I'll fettle you

aye

that (interruption) fettle uh-huh

what about in canny fettle (pause) no

(unclear)

eh (pause) goniel

no

it means a fool eh gully

gully (unclear) a bread knife

aye do you still use it

well I still call it

aye ehm (pause) howk

you get a good howking

aye that means embarrassment (unclear)

aye

eh hoy

yeah it's still used

eh ken

no

(unclear) kep

no

no (pause) eh lowe

allow

lowe

I'll allow something

no

(laughter)

I think it means a light you know a flame or something (pause) eh parky (pause) about your food

parky

mm-hm

oh I am (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear) ever use it

well everybody keeps telling us I am (interruption) so got to

aye (pause) eh stott

I'll stott you off the wall (laughter)

(laughter) that sounds right aye

(laughter) (unclear) sounds like (unclear)

(laughter) eh (pause) varnigh

what

varnigh (pause) no

never heard of it

very nearly (pause) eh (pause) now ehm I'm going to read out some sentences and eh (pause) for each one I want you ehm to tell us eh whether it's (pause) okay by which I mean whether it sounds like the sort of thing that you could possibly say if the (interruption) circumstances arose you see

(unclear)

not sort of eh not whether you think it's right or not or anything like that just you know whether it sounds okay ehm (pause) right eh (pause) were you wakened last night when I came in

were you (unclear) when I came in

were you waken

waken

waken aye

or were you awake (laughter)

no ta ehm I was still a bed when you called this morning

I was still in bed

ta eh he never gave us any

that's all right

okay (pause) ehm (pause) they're useless them

yeah

yeah ehm me and John went to the races on Saturday

yeah

mm ehm it's me and him's last day

it's our last day

ta eh (pause) I might could manage it

no

no ehm ehm he wouldn't could have worked even if you had asked him

I (unclear) asked him

ta eh (pause) it's ower big to get through there

it's ow it's ower (interruption) big

it's ower big

no (laughter)

no

I'm not that bad (laughter)

(unclear)

(laughter) you're sure you never used it

no I'm not (laughter) it's too big I would say

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

(unclear) yes

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

yeah

yeah ehm (pause) I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

good

ehm do you want out meaning do you want to be out

ah no

no ehm they go to the pictures of a Sunday

if I go to the pictures on Sundays

well (pause) the sentence they go to the pictures of a Sunday

oh I see we go to the pictures on Sundays

on Sundays

days

ta eh (pause) I was coming home on the train and if I didn't leave my coat lying on the seat (pause) okay or not

eh (unclear)

that's okay ehm (pause) these ones are pretty big to them others

(unclear)

(laughter)

these are not very (interruption) big to them others (pause) these are big compared to the (unclear) (interruption)

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) aye ta now for the next eh about five minutes nothing I say makes any sense they're just odd sentences ehm (pause) eh (pause) here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

yeah

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

yes

it's okay eh (pause) would you mind stop talking

you mind shutting up (laughter)

(laughter) (pause) ta you think there's something odd about would you mind stop talking

yeah it seems (unclear) missing a bit

aye eh do you want a cup of tea making

yeah

ehm do you want this wall painting

yeah

yeah eh you know him that used to work on the railways

mm-hm

yeah eh (pause) he happened a nasty accident

yes

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

I would put the kettle on but you could use (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) eh (pause) I wanted for to talk to you about it

you want what

I wanted for to talk to you about it is that okay or not

could

yeah ehm (pause) when did it happen you

just when did it happen

ta ehm I've got money belonging him

yeah

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

yeah

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

yeah

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

yeah

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

you're used to it

ta ehm (pause) we've been waiting of a bus

yeah

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

yeah

yeah (pause) I don't bother much about the television and that

yeah

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

yeah

many people were there there

many people (unclear) where

(unclear) it's obvious it is all right in fact many people were there there

for how many people were there there

uh-huh

right

but (interruption) (unclear)

with the how on not many

you wouldn't say many people were there there

no I'd (interruption) say 'how'

oh ta eh (pause) where did you get it at

yeah

yes ehm never mind I'll manage but

yeah

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

yeah

no the wonder is okay is it

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

Jack didn't think much to the race

yeah

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

yeah

eh had they seen it no they'd not seen it

no

no ta ehm (pause) eh my coat's too long this

my coat's too long what

this

no

sounds odd to me as well ehm how's your wife and family then

yeah

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

no

no ehm what is it he does for a living

yeah

he wants his wages paid immediately

yeah

ehm just light the fire on will you

just light the fire how

light the fire on

oh no

no ehm (pause) I'll clout yous both in a minute

yeah

how much have they offered we

yeah (laughter)

yeah ehm pass us one of them spanners

yeah

I've broke a plate I'm afraid

yeah

I come this morning but you weren't in

yeah

he done it all right

yeah

I had forgetten to buy the onions

yeah

eh he give us a pound for doing it

yeah

ehm we had went to the coast for the day

yeah

I seen Albert on Tuesday

yeah

I'm not going to stand being tret like that

yeah

ehm that's what happens when you be naughty

no

no ehm I'll probably see him a Saturday

yeah

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

yeah

you've letten him get away

yeah

eh my mother's keep coming in to see us

yeah

mm (pause) eh now (pause) could you give me ehm the opposite of I'll be going there this week

what do you mean by the opposite by not going or (pause) another way of putting I'll be going (interruption) there or something

no I mean (pause) the opposite of well say the opposite of 'I'll be going there this week' would be 'I'll not be going there this week' (interruption) right

right

now the opposite of he's got some

he hasn't got any

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

he's never seen that picture

ta ehm and the opposite of you're working late tonight

I'm not working late tonight

again the opposite of you're not working late tonight

oh are you not working late tonight

(laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) and the opposite of I gave him one

(unclear) (pause) I never give him any

ta ehm (pause) suppose that ehm (pause) you went up to somebody in the street to ask them for a a match what would you normally say

you got a light

ta eh (pause) can you finish off this sentence in a way that seems normal eh I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

tomorrow

thanks that's fine