(unclear) find the tape (unclear) right

T L S G twenty four

thanks (pause) could you tell us first ehm whereabouts you were born please (pause) in Gateshead was it

far as I know Benwell

Benwell

mm-hm

ah yeah and eh (pause) whereabouts else have you lived since then

Gateshead

yeah

and eh Lobley Hill

yes (interruption) eh

we've been up here thirty odd year

in this house

in this house

yeah and eh how long did you live in Newcastle before you

oh well that I couldn't remember (interruption) just

just you were very young when you (interruption) moved from there

yes

yes

uh-huh

yeah (pause) eh (pause) and eh (pause) where whereabouts in Gateshead did you used to live

eh Pine Street

oh yes

and then we (unclear) moved from Pine Street to Grainger Street

yeah

from Grainger Street to Spencer Terrace

yes uh-huh

and from Spencer Terrace up to here

aye yes I I've

we've been here ever since

yeah I've interviewed quite a few people down there like in (interruption) Pine Street (unclear)

yes uh-huh

eh (pause) which of those places did you think was the best to live in you know what I mean how does this area compare with (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

oh well this area up here is a big comparison

yeah

because I mean you have the fresh air

yes yeah

the countryside

yeah

you know and I mean you have your ehm (pause) more or less everything that you really require bath hot water

yes yeah yeah

you know and there's a a vast difference

yeah do you think there are any disadvantages do you I mean did you find that the people down there were more neighbourly for instance or (pause) anything like that

oh yes

they were

they were

mm-hm

yes (pause) eh well quite different from up here you more or less reserve yourself

mm-hm yes

you know where down in eh (pause) down the Teams and that

mm

well they were neighbourly and they sort of come forward if you were in trouble or

uh-huh yes

anything like that you know but up here it's (pause) you know (interruption) (unclear)

you don't you don't know your neighbours round here so well

no

no (pause) eh and ehm what do you think about ehm Gateshead com eh compared with say Newcastle as a place to live I mean (pause) do you th w w would you prefer to live in Gateshead (pause) rather than Newcastle

yes I think I would I'll tell you why because eh Gateshead now is eh seems as though it's becoming more advanced than than Newcastle area

yes

I mean there's a lot of new development in the Gateshead area (interruption) comparing it with the Newcastle area

(unclear) yeah very true yeah yes (unclear)

they have done an awful lot in Gateshead

mm (unclear)

no doubt they're doing quite a bit in Newcastle but they don't seem as far advanced as eh (interruption) Gateshead

that's right that's true yeah

yes

ehm (pause) so you would say that you have eh fairly strong attachments to Gateshead

to Gateshead

you wouldn't you wouldn't think of moving away sort of anywhere else in the country

oh no

no

no

definitely not (pause) do you think that ehm do you think that people from Tyneside are very different from people from other parts of the country in any way

well yes I think they are because eh Tynesiders I know we get all called Geordies you know

yeah

but eh (pause) well I think there's more eh (pause) they seem more friendlier in every way

mm-hm

you know

yeah yes

to what they are down south and so forth (interruption) you know

yeah eh have you you've never actually been away from Tyneside for very long periods

oh (interruption) no

just holidays

just holidays you know

yeah yeah ehm (pause) eh whereabouts were your parents born please do you know

oh now that I couldn't tell you

(laughter) probably in Newcastle

most probably (interruption) Newcastle area

yeah yes eh but they were local Tyneside people

oh yes

(unclear) yes they they didn't come from anywhere else

no

no ehm and what about your father's occupation (pause) do you know

eh my father was a labourer in a shipyard Walker Naval Yard

ah yes

he worked there for years

yeah ehm (pause) (unclear) cards could you tell us please ehm which age group you come into on that card if you just say the letter

E

ta and eh (pause) on what basis you occupy this house again if you could just say the letter

oh these ones is privately owned

yes

they belong to Leach

I see yes (unclear) (pause) ehm (pause) and eh do you have any children by the way

all married

they're all married aye yes so you just live here with your husband

yes

yeah ehm (pause) and eh w what what does your husband do or did he do

my husband works in a foundry

does he whereabouts

Blairs Newcastle

aye yes

he's worked there thirty odd year

mm

but I don't think he'll work anymore

no not after his illness (unclear) no

no

(unclear) wouldn't think so ehm (pause) and eh what about yourself what's what eh jobs have you done

oh just house I don't work at all

you don't no you don't work at at the moment

no

but eh what did you do after you left school for instance

oh me first job

(unclear)

now I'll tell you what me first job was when I left school in a pickle factory

yeah

I peeled onions

(laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) yeah where was that

oh eh who was it for again now (pause) Roberts (pause) they lived in ehm (pause) Sidney Grove Gateshead

aye yes yeah (pause) and what what other sorts of jobs have you done can you remember any (unclear)

well I worked for quite a long time at ehm (pause) oh now what did they call him (pause) oh now I can't think of their name (pause) oh I just can't think of the name now

(laughter)

but I know Bowers Bowers in Newcastle they bought them out

yeah yes what was it

restaurants

ah yeah uh-huh

I worked for years in them

ah so that was in a (unclear) in a restaurant was it

yes

yes yeah (pause) were they good jobs did you enjoy it

they were yes

but you haven't y you haven't worked since you were married

never since I was married

no

no

(unclear)

oh yes I tell a I tell a lie I was working for the education

yeah

eh (pause) for a while part time you know on eh the eh meals (interruption) on a dinner time

ah yes the school dinners (unclear)

but I had an accident there (laughter)

is that right what happened

and eh I fell and hurt me spine

aye

and I've been off over twelve month

(unclear) yeah (pause) yeah (pause) eh (pause) these are just eh (pause) a few questions to find out if you use certain expressions in certain situations ehm (pause) if something was eh up on a high shelf could you say that it was up a height do you use that expression

yes

up a height yeah

Geordie

yeah and eh (pause) rather more rare one this if eh could you say of a ehm of a tool or something this'll do the job clever do you ever use that expression

no I can't (interruption) say I do

no (unclear) ehm and eh if somebody's had too much to drink he's (pause) what do you usually say

well normally I say he's been well sozzled

(laughter)

(laughter) see it's all Geordie slang up here you see

uh-huh oh aye yes aye it's what we want ehm (pause) eh how old were you when you left school please

fourteen

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

well in a way yes but the point is after you leave school sometimes you wish you were back

mm yes

you know for a while

yes did you

then you automatically get used to it don't you

yeah did you find did you think work was worse than school (unclear)

no not actually but work was very hard to get

mm-hm (interruption) yes

you more or less just had to take anything that came along

mm-hm

you know you couldn't pick and choose that was how I got a job in a pickle factory

mm-hm (unclear)

because there was no work

yes yeah ehm (pause) and would you say that eh looking back on your education ehm would you say that it's ever been worth very much to you in your life since you left school (unclear)

as regards education

mm have you have you found it useful in you know well in your in your jobs for instance

well the point is when we were young I mean we didn't get the privileges that the youngsters get nowadays

(unclear)

you know you were just (pause) taught in school and (pause) more or less sometimes you learnt more when you left school than what you did when you were at school

yes (unclear)

that was the point

yeah yes

you sort of learnt yourself (interruption) after you left school

(unclear) yeah (pause) yes do you think ehm do you think education's improved a lot since you left school

oh oh yes

yeah

quite a lot

ehm (pause) and do you think that eh (pause) education's particularly important for children these days you know (interruption) for for young people now

it is very important

yeah (pause) and would that go as much for for girls as for boys (unclear)

yes

yes just the same

yes I would say that

mm (pause) eh (pause) now if we can take you back ehm (pause) can you remember where you were living when you were say under twelve between five and twelve whereabouts were you living then

Pine Street

Pine Street yeah

mm-hm

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

oh yes

yes

every minute of it

yeah

yes

eh (pause) can you remember ehm any of the games that they used to play or (pause) things (interruption) you used to get up to when you were (unclear)

oh now we used to get a tin block

aye

I think it's what eh we used to call it cannon ball

uh-huh

you used to put the sticks on and throw the ball you know

yeah

and knock all the sticks off and then (interruption) you used to run

uh-huh

you know

yeah

and we used to really enjoy it

yes

but we called that canon ball

oh yes and eh and you had to catch the other (unclear) (interruption) something like that

yes yes

yes (pause) and eh can you remember what you used to call a game where one of the kids has to chase the others to try to touch them

tiggy

yeah ta

mm

and eh and what did you used to say about the one who had to chase

how do you mean

you know I mean if you dipped up for it or something and you've and one one of them had to t you know there was one of you who had to chase the others and all the others ran away what did you say about the one who has to chase

well if they didn't do it we used to (pause) you know we used to call them different various different names you're (interruption) spoilsport or

yeah uh-huh

something like that you know

mm but did did you used to say eh you're on when you had to

oh uh-huh (interruption) yes

yes you used to say he was on

yes

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

oh now we had a s a special name for that

did you used

if I can remember it (pause) oh it's that far back now (interruption) you know

did you used to cross your fingers and say (unclear) (pause) skinchers did you used to say that

aye but we had a a it wasn't skinchers we had another

a different word yeah

another name for it I'm just trying to think of it it it'll come back to us

(laughter) right and eh what did you call the ehm the glass things that that that boys flick along the ground

oh glass allies

allies do you do you yes (unclear)

(laughter) glass allies (laughter)

ehm (pause) a a simple question wha w w could you just tell us just what you call each of the rooms of this house please what your normal word is for them what's this room for instance

well we call this the sitting room

uh-huh (unclear)

dining room

yeah

and the bedrooms is upstairs

yeah and what about

lobby way

yes yeah ta ehm (pause) and ehm (pause) to get out of my back door you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

the latch

ta and ehm (pause) what do you call the thing you have to stand in front of the fire to get it going if you've got a one you know a sheet of tin that you put in front of the fire (interruption) (unclear)

oh bleezer

bleezer

aye

uh-huh do you talk about bleezing it up

uh-huh

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) and what do you call eh (pause) cleaning the plates and things after a meal (pause) you know when you've had a meal and you've got to you know I'll just have to I'll have to go and

oh scrape the plates

wash aye

or wash the plates (interruption) is that what you mean

yeah yeah

mm

eh (pause) could you tell us ehm how you like to spend your spare time you know assuming that you ever get any what sort of

well my spare time I don't read (pause) I never (interruption) read

you never read no

never read a paper or anything my spare time's devoted to knitting

yes

every minute or every chance I can get

yeah

my knitting needles is out

oh that's grand I bet you never have to buy anything do you

I don't I knit for all the grandbairns and I (interruption) knit for the family

yes mm-hm

they never (unclear) know what it is to buy a woolly

yes (unclear)

but I've got to (pause) even if sit down for a few minutes in between doing anything (interruption) I've got to

uh-huh (unclear)

yes

(unclear) (laughter) eh (pause) and what eh so (pause) you spend most of your time in the evenings in do you (interruption) you don't usually go out yeah

yes (pause) (interruption) uh-huh

yeah (pause) ehm

with the exception of a Sunday night I like to go dancing

oh where whereabouts do you go dancing

oh just down at Lobley Hill club

aye

there's a club just around the corner you know

aye I didn't know about I didn't know about that I didn't know it was there

mm

(unclear) very nice ehm (pause) and do you think there's any eh (pause) any things that you would like to have done but you've never had the chance to do or you've never got round to you know what I mean

oh aye of course at times

yes what kinds of things

riding on the back of a motor bike

yes (laughter) thank you yeah eh

I love motor bike riding

do you

mm

but you've never had the chance

well I had about a couple of year back my son bought a big motor bike (interruption) you know

ah yes

and eh (pause) he says mam he says you've always said you'd love to go on the back of a motor bike I says I was on motor bikes before you were born pet

(laughter)

but I says I've never had the the chance of going on in the past years I've been married

mm-hm (unclear)

he says well I've bought meself a nice new motor bike he says when it comes he says eh after I've broke it in he says I'll take you for a ride I say it'll have to be a fast one mind

yes (laughter)

so he says right (unclear) one Sunday he came in he says right mam it's a lovely day take you for a fast ride he says you'll never want to go up on the back of it again when I'm done

(laughter)

I says right that's a bet so away we go gets on the road I says have you had it opened right up he says no mother I says open it up if he was here he would tell you

(laughter)

I says open it up he say are you sure you're not frightened mother I says no no I say I'm not frightened I says eh the more speed the better (pause) and he opened it up to ninety odd (pause) and he starts shaking

(laughter)

I said that's enough just (unclear) it down when he come back he said mother he says I frightened mesel he says I thought I'd (unclear) frighten you (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter)

that's one thing I really love

aye

getting on the back of a motor bike

yeah

you know real fast

really fast

right

yeah (unclear)

mm-hm yes

eh what about the television do you watch television very much

yes quite a lot

quite a lot yeah

mm-hm

what eh what sort of programmes do you like

well we more or less just eh we put it on at tea time it never goes off till (interruption) it's finished

mm yes do y do you usually watch it or is it just sort of on in the corner you know (unclear)

no there's eh different eh items that we watch like sometimes there's some eh items on eh doctors on various eh things which is very interesting

aye yeah

I always find it very interesting

mm-hm

you know because they give speeches on cancer and (interruption) what have you and heart (interruption) and various other things which eh (interruption) I'm really interested in you know (interruption)

(interruption) mm-hm yeah (interruption) yes yeah (interruption) useful like you know (interruption) yeah (pause) and eh what sort of programmes do you dislike is there any programmes you really hate

no I don't think there is I think that oh I can interest myself in them

aye

you know no matter what they are

(unclear) yeah

I like watching the cartoons mind I'm worse than the bairns

aye Tom and Jerry (laughter)

(laughter)

eh these are just a few questions about your opinions on some ordinary matter ehm what do you think that parents should do when their children misbehave what sort of ehm

as regards discipline

yeah

I know I I know what I used to do with mine

aye

used take me slipper off to them

yes (pause) fairly often

yes

aye (pause) eh (pause) and ehm what about say a young person of sixteen what sort of eh what sort of control do you think their parents should exercise over them

well as regards that I don't know because I mean mine was brought up with discipline from they were very very young

mm-hm

and eh mine never took no hurt

(unclear)

they've never ever been in any trouble or brought trouble to the door

yes

in any way

yeah you mean that if they are brought brought up properly you don't really need (unclear)

you don't you don't need

no yeah it's true

no but I'll tell you one thing mine was always brought up broad minded

mm-hm yeah

you know (pause) certain things that they eh (unclear) they say well there's was always two ways of putting it more or less

mm-hm yeah

you know well mine was brought up to take it either ways

yes yeah

and eh I've never once had any bother as regards mine

(unclear) great

but you see I always think that the the trouble with eh youngsters of the day has all been brought on least this is my opinion from the war there was too many mothers out at work

yes (unclear)

and their children was just left

yeah

when the mothers come in of a night time I've witnessed it I've seen it done

aye

there's four shilling go to the pictures I can't be bothered

(unclear)

weekends come along (pause) I've been working all the week I want nights out

mm-hm yeah

and the bairns was pushed at one side again

yes mm-hm

they were left there's two shilling go and get something for your dinner well I mean that's no way to bring children up

you're dead right (unclear) yeah I think there's a lot of truth in that (unclear)

there is a lot of truth in it

I've never thought of that before either mm (pause) ehm (pause) now eh going on to something different and eh this is a question you don't have to answer if you don't want ehm which way do you vote (unclear)

well we've always voted Labour

mm-hm and (pause) you still do

we still do yes

y yes you al you always vote the same way

yes

yeah would you say that eh you feel a duty to vote for the (interruption) for the party or

not necessarily I mean eh (pause) you look back while the either Conservative's in or Labour's in I mean you look back and you you sit and study and see what good they've done (interruption) in that five year

mm-hm (pause) yeah (pause) mm-hm so it it it is a matter of (interruption) weighing up like

so that yes

how well how well they've run the country

I always think that you've got to think of the (unclear) eh which is the best party which is doing the best in the period eh time that they've been in

yeah yeah and eh w do you usually eh turn out to vote pretty regularly I mean do you vote in local government elections for instance

oh yes (interruption) municipal elections yes

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

well I don't think I've ever changed

(unclear) (pause) ehm (pause) yes you you think that you've always talked the same as you do now

always yes

and that no matter what the circumstances you always talk (interruption) in the same voice

always talk the same

yeah yes ehm

and it's just tough luck if you don't like it

quite right too (unclear)

(unclear)

eh (pause) do you ehm on the whole do you like to hear people talking in local accents you know in the in their local Tyneside accent

well more or less used eh to the Tyneside language

yeah

but eh well such as Londoners and the (interruption) likes of that when they come

mm-hm yeah

(unclear) really interested in the way they talk it seems (interruption) something different sort of (interruption) style from your speech you know

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) mm yeah yes yeah you don't

or Scot Scottish people for instance (interruption) you know

mm-hm (pause) so you don't think it would be a good idea if everybody talked the same way

oh definitely not

no

no

definitely not ehm (pause) eh and what about you know the way the ehm the way the newsreaders speak on television when they're reading out the news you know that way of speech eh do you do you like that that manner at all or

well yes it's ehm (pause) you can really understand it and every word seems as though it's precise you know

mm-hm yeah yeah do you actually know anybody yourself who talks like that

no (unclear) we always seem as though we just talk the same

yeah yes (pause) do you in in fact do you think that ehm (pause) it sounds as if more or less everybody you talk to talks more or less the same as you

the same

you feel like you feel or

yes

yeah ehm (pause) and do you does that you know does it make you feel ehm eh let's say if somebody talks like you do you feel that you're more likely to get on with them you know do you feel closer to them because they talk like you or something like that

well yes I think so

mm mm-hm (pause) eh (pause) this is a very general sort of question ehm (pause) what kinds of things do you think you can tell about somebody from they way he talks (unclear) are you ever conscious of guessing things about (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

oh not much eh

not particularly you don't think

no I couldn't judge anybody by that

yeah y you wouldn't say that ehm I mean listening to me talking for instance w y y have you got any particular reaction to the way I talk

no

would you say it was eh more or less the same as the way you talk

yes sounds (unclear) just the same

(unclear) I'm glad you said that (interruption) (unclear)

yes

some people tell me that eh you know they don't think that I've got a Tyneside voice at all seems very odd to me

no

you think I talk more or less (unclear) (interruption) same

same

same group (unclear)

yes

yeah (pause) eh (pause) if we could just do you think you could read that list of words for us please just straight down from top to (interruption) bottom

straight down

aye

(unclear) find mind fly bill well men head back farm wall daughter down take straight cold alone poor fire four tower path after (pause) 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

ta (pause) eh now eh now I'm going to read out a list of words and eh for each one I want to know firstly if you use it yourself and secondly if you're familiar with it you know I mean it may be the case that you wouldn't use it yourself but you hear it quite often you know (unclear) there again you might use them all eh they're all fairly local words you know ehm (pause) what about eh aside meaning beside do you say it's just aside the fire

yes

yeah ehm (pause) bairn

yes

yes (pause) bait

yes

eh beck meaning a stream

yes

you do yes eh bonny

yes

yeah eh bray for to hit

yes

yeah eh bullets

yes

for sweets aye clamming

yes

yes

hungry (laughter)

eh boody

yes

yes did you used to play with it (interruption) when (unclear)

(unclear) (laughter)

eh (pause) clarts

yes muck (laughter)

eh coin (pause) (interruption) a corner

yes

mm-hm cree

yes

mm-hm

I've got two up the garden (laughter)

have you (laughter) eh (pause) dunch

yes

yeah ehm (pause) fettle

yes

yeah (pause) gully

yes

yes do you use that all the time

aye

uh-huh (pause) ehm howk

yes

yeah eh hoy

(unclear) yes

uh-huh ken

yes

for to know

mm-hm

do you ken him

mm

uh-huh ehm kep

yes

yeah lowe

lowe

lowe

no (interruption) can't say I do

lowe give us a lowe for give us a light

no (interruption) don't use that one

you don't (unclear) no right ehm mense can you say (interruption) it'll be more to your mense to (unclear)

yes

mm-hm ehm parky

yes

about your food

mm-hm

mm ehm (pause) varnigh

yes

yeah eh mell

yes

uh-huh a hammer

for a big hammer

aye (laughter)

uh-huh

eh (pause) knool or knooled

yes

uh-huh yeah (pause) eh now eh more or less on the same lines I'm going to read out ehm (pause) this list of sentences and eh for each one I would like to know whether it sounds natural to you you know like (pause) that is whether it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstances arose you see what I mean you know if just if it sounds okay really

mm-hm

some of them you know if one of them sounds odd you know (unclear) then just say no but but (pause) ehm (pause) were you wakened last night when I came in

mm-hm

that's ok eh I was still a bed when you called this morning

mm-hm

yeah eh he never gave us any

mm-hm

(unclear) do you not go there very often

yes

yeah eh they're useless them

yes

aye eh me and John went to the races on Saturday

yes

yeah eh it's me and him's last day

yes

yeah I might could manage it

yeah

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

yes

mm ehm it's ower big to get through there

yes

mm-hm you know me cousin that her husband died

yes

mm-hm ehm with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her

yes

yeah I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

yes

(unclear) eh they go to the pictures of a Sunday

yes

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

yes

yeah ehm these ones are pretty big to them others

yes

yeah (pause) here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

yes

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

yes

yeah (pause) would you mind stop talking

yes

(unclear) do you want a cup of tea making

yes

(unclear) you know him that used to work on the railways

yes

yeah (pause) eh he happened a nasty accident

yes

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

yes

yeah I wanted for to talk to you about it

yes

(unclear) (pause) when did it happen you

yes

(unclear) eh I've got money belonging him

yes

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

yes

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

yes

(unclear) (pause) I'm going shopping for John a pair of trousers

yes

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

yes

yeah ehm we've been waiting of a bus

yes

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

yes

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

oh I wouldn't say (pause) no comment on that one (laughter)

no ehm (pause) there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought

(unclear)

(laughter)

(laughter) (unclear)

yes

yes

eh (pause) many people were there there

yes

mm-hm eh where did you get it at

yes

mm-hm never mind I'll manage but

yes

ehm (pause) no the wonder I couldn't get it to work it's not plugged in

yes

yes ehm me and George is going to the town today

yes

yeah (pause) Jack Jack didn't think much to the race

yes

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

yes

mm ehm (pause) had they seen it no they'd not seen it

aye (interruption) yes

they'd not seen it (unclear) ehm (pause) it's too long this

yes

yeah eh how's your wife and family then

yes

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

yes

yeah ehm what is it he does for a living

yes

yes ehm he wants his (unclear) he wants his wages paid straight away

yes

yeah (pause) eh just light the fire on will you

yes

yeah eh I'll clout yous both in a minute

yes

yes ehm how much have they offered we

yes

eh pass us one of them spanners

yes

right eh I've broke a plate

yes

I c I come this morning but you weren't in

(unclear) yes

eh he done it all right

yes

yeah eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

yes

eh he give us a pound for doing it

yes

we had went to the coast for the day

yes

I seen Albert on Tuesday

yes

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

yeah

that's what happens when you be naughty

yes

(unclear) ehm I'll probably see him a Saturday

yes

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

yes

you've letten him get away

yes

me mother's keep coming in to see us

yes

ehm (pause) we'll sharp get that done

yes

yeah ehm me husband's as Tyneside as what I am

yes

right eh yous used to sweep the floor and us used to wash the dishes

yes

yeah (pause) and ehm (pause) ehm eh (pause) could you give me ehm the opposite of (pause) eh I'll be going there this week does that make sense to you the opposite of

going there this week

(unclear)

I'll be ganning

no ehm I would I would mean eh I'll not be going there this week or ehm I won't be going there this week you know what I mean

oh the reverse

the reverse yes the reverse (unclear)

mm

so eh what about (pause) the reverse of he's got some

he hasn't any

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

he hadn't

ta eh the opposite of you're working late tonight

he wasn't

ta eh the opposite of I gave him one

you didn't

yeah ehm suppose eh you went up to somebody in the street to ask for a match w what would you say

have you got a light

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

today

ta that's it thanks

they're typical things that's said a thousand and one times a day

yes all those sentences

yes

yeah eh

mm-hm

you said ehm (pause) you said yes to them all you know but

mm

a lot of people s just say you know just say yes to some of them I think ehm it's not everybody who you know who accepts them all

but everybody uses these these things every day

aye

they're all typical things that you use everyday

eh yes although there's some of them I th I think there's some of them that I probably wouldn't that I probably wouldn't say you know like I don't think I say I'm used with it for instance

mm-hm

I I you know I always say used to it (unclear) but eh you would say used with it

yes

yeah yeah (pause) I know they're all common like because I I've you know they're all ones that I've actually heard you know

mm-hm

I've just sort of taken them straight down from people like but it's eh (pause) it's surprising some people cannot believe that some of those are said you know

mm-hm

some some (interruption) people say I don't say that you know (laughter)

(unclear) (pause) well yes a thousand and one times a day

yes (pause) whose are the dogs are they yours

they're ours they're (interruption) eh racing dogs

eh no thanks no

do you not smoke

no

you haven't got bad bad habits

(laughter) I haven't no I I run you see and it's eh bad for your running

oh yes (pause) they keep saying don't smoke but I still smoke

(laughter) yeah well that's the thing well you know (pause) me father's always trying to persuade you know well me when I was younger and me brothers like not to smoke but they've always you know he's smoked all his life like

mm-hm

he's smoked since he was fourteen or something

I've smoked since I was fourteen

mm

mind my husband doesn't smoke now

no (unclear)

he never used to smoke them he used to eat them (pause) he smoked about eighty a day

oh dear me no

eighty cigarettes a day

yes

and he had done that for years and years

yeah I suppose in that sense (interruption) (unclear)

and eh when he first collapsed and went in hospital

(unclear)

he was in eh coronary unit you know

mm-hm mm

and what is it eh care unit

oh the intensive care aye

intensive care unit eh he was in there three weeks you go in any time to see him you know he was so ill

yes yeah whereabouts was he which hospital

Queen Elizabeth

Q E aye

and eh (pause) he's never smoked since then

yeah yes (unclear) I'm not surprised about that

last February

yeah there's eh just recently my brother was in eh Shottley Bridge with a collapsed lung you know

yes

and he said eh oh if you had been in there he said you would give up smoking straight away he said you know if you had eh because he I think he had a you know a very bad time in hospital

and yet I can give them up

without sort of (interruption) feeling it very much

without (pause) any bother I take spasms

aye

and I say oh that's me last one I'm getting buying no more I could go for months

mm-hm

and then just automatically I just pick a one up and (interruption) smoke again

yes it's surprising but some people find that they you know they can't you know they just (interruption) can't give them up at all (unclear)

oh I can I can

mm very odd

dozens of times I've given up just eh to see if the dad would follow suit you know (interruption) give him a bit of encouragement you know

uh-huh yes aye yes

I used to say to him 'well look I can give it up straight away there's no such a thing as can't' but he could never give them up

(unclear) oh it's it's certainly (interruption) (unclear)

if he hadn't a cigarette for an hour

yes

he was like that

mm aye

you know you were glad to go out automatically and buy him a packet of cigarettes to

uh-huh yes

and since then he's never bothered

mm

but I think this has give him a fright you know

mm well it would do aye

I mean he's had three attacks since February you know

yes

he's just came out at the weekend

dear me

you never know when he gets carried in and it's always on a Thursday night

aye

always at about eleven o'clock

(unclear)

same time

yeah it must

he gets two or three Thursdays running

uh-huh

then all of a sudden always m always on a Thursday night he takes these attacks

yeah

round about the same time

aye it must be very worrying (interruption) (unclear)

I've asked the doctor if he could throw any light on that

mm-hm it certainly seems odd doesn't it

but there was a doctor eh writing in the paper a few weeks back and I was reading it he said it eh the the body works in a cycle

uh-huh yeah (pause) yeah

it sort of rotates

aye

and it eh and if one was subjected to that at that particular time

yes yeah (interruption) could happen (unclear)

so whether he's eh one of them persons I don't know

(unclear)

but it all these attacks he's had's been on a Thursday night and as soon as it comes to the Thursday night oh my inside just turns over you know you feel sick inside

(unclear)

there's nothing you can do with him here you know just have to phone an ambulance

mm-hm

because he's stone out

yeah (pause) do you do you race the dogs

uh-huh (unclear)

oh yes I wondered what they were for (unclear) (pause) whereabouts do they ra whereabouts do they race at eh do they race at Redheugh Park

eh no eh we race at eh Dipton

aye

various other places where there's open races Birtley you know ehm South Stanley

mm

and different place