to identify the tape right (pause) (unclear)

T L S G three twenty four

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

eh I was born in Gateshead

(unclear) whereabouts

ehm (pause) Walker eh (pause) I think I was born in the Queen Elizabeth hospital

aye (laughter)

eh (pause) do you want the eh (interruption) (unclear)

whereabouts did you live yeah

eh (pause) Walker Terrace

yes

that's on Bensham Road

yes yeah eh (pause) and whereabouts else have you lived since then you know how long (interruption) did you stay there

Wrekenton (pause) for about six years

(unclear)

and I've lived here for about three months

yeah but all the rest of the time you were in Marsden in

(unclear) in yeah

(unclear)

Marsden Grove

yeah (pause) how w what did you think of those different places you know as places to live in like which did you like best

well I can't remember very much about Walker Terrace

yeah

you know because I was quite young (pause) when I was there

yeah (pause) and you just

well I didn't like leaving it

yeah

but looking back now you know the premises weren't too good

mm

you know for living in

mm

ehm and Marsden Grove's a (pause) you know I don't like that area very (interruption) very much no

do you not what was wrong with it like

no it's not a very good council estate

no it's it has a bit of a reputation Marsden Grove (unclear) a rough area

all the delinquents come from round about there

that's right yeah

Blackhill Crescent

yes yeah I've just been doing some interviews up there

have you

(unclear) yeah

you've never seen some of the homes

it's a good laugh (laughter) yes yeah (pause) ehm would you say that ehm (pause) that you were fairly attached to Gateshead as a place to live in you know do you think you would ever live well in Newcastle for instance

well I suppose I'm attached to Gateshead you know (pause) eh (pause) I would have no qualms about leaving Gateshead

mm

you know I'm not emotionally attached to Gateshead

(unclear)

particularly

mm you would go away sort of I mean if if your job called for it or something (interruption) (unclear)

yeah well I'm still at college at the moment (interruption) so you know I've got to stay here really

are you aye (pause) mm whereabouts w which college are you (interruption) at

Bede College Durham

in Durham

mm mm

mm mm mm eh what are you doing there

teacher training course

oh I see yeah (pause) (interruption) yeah

(unclear)

that's a is that part of the university

yeah

it is right yes

well officially it is you know

yeah (interruption) funny

just an ordinary teacher training college

I see (interruption) yes it's

just an ordinary

yeah it's not like a college like a Cambridge college or or something like that funny set up at Durham you know (interruption) (unclear)

it is strange (unclear) really strange

yes (pause) yes we always run against eh Durham University and they turn out all these (interruption) coll odd college teams you know (unclear)

(unclear) (pause) yeah Bede College have got (pause) a very good rugby team I think

yeah yes (pause) ehm (pause) eh whereabouts were your parents born were they born in Gateshead

(unclear) my father was born in Gateshead as far as I know

mm

and his parents ehm (pause) my mother comes from was born in Goole

(unclear)

and she comes and she lived in Leeds

yeah

you know from (pause) teenage I think

yeah yeah (pause) and

and all my (pause) you know relations on my mother's side are (pause) still from Leeds

(unclear)

(unclear) Yorkshire

mm and eh what was what's your father's occupation

well just a labourer really

yeah yeah yeah mm eh how old are you now

twenty one

mm-hm

two on Saturday

yeah and eh do you do you own this house yourself

no ehm just moved in eh well just being on a government grant you know it's a bit

oh yeah yes

pretty much can't buy

yeah

buy accommodation we're just renting it at the moment (unclear)

yeah

probably when I leave college we'll be (pause) saving up like mad

aye

you know

yeah

(unclear)

it's it's a massive house isn't do you you rent it (unclear)

well it's in two flats you know there's upstairs (interruption) and there's downstairs eh

aye

I know the bloke I'm renting it off you know so it's

aye I see yeah

it helps

(unclear)

it goes back quite a long way (interruption) you know it's

yes I noticed (unclear) I noticed like but like yeah

been a privilege

yeah a lot of these houses are sort of subdivided aren't they because they must have been (interruption) veritable mansions in their day (unclear)

yeah (unclear) (pause) must've been it's absolutely fantastic this you know three floors there's (pause) (interruption) the attics in the top you know

is there (unclear) great (unclear)

I suppose you really want me to keep talking don't you (laughter)

(laughter) (pause) ehm (pause) you are married are you

yes uh-huh

yes mm is your wife from (pause) (interruption) Gateshead as well

(unclear) in Gateshead yes

Gateshead

(unclear) her parents are probably Gateshead

mm (unclear) (pause) were you you know if we could go on to talk about your (pause) work (unclear) well if you call it (unclear) people say that students do any work you know

mm-hm

mm eh (pause) what eh what stage are you up to in your in your training like you know

well I've just finished a year (pause) the first my first year (pause) ehm I'd worked before I'd gone into college you know (interruption) since leaving school

did you oh I see yeah when did you leave school like

eh sixty eight

mm

I worked in a library for a year

mm

Gateshead libraries

did you

(unclear) yeah

did you used to work at the central like

mm

mm I must have seen you there

yeah probably

(laughter)

and then I I worked at the DEP Department of Employment and Productivity

oh yeah

for a year the dole

where oh aye I see yeah where were you

(unclear)

actually working at Windmill Hills

yeah mm

aye

Windmill Hills first and then we moved over (pause) to the end of Sunderland Road

uh-huh yeah yeah well that must be fair fairly recently then have you have you just gone into college

just gone into college (interruption) this last term last year

oh I see yeah yes yeah (unclear)

(unclear)

what did you what did you think of working in the in the dole you know

it's horrible

is it

(unclear)

I've got a cousin does the same like you know

have you

yes

(unclear)

but (pause) he's sort of eh (pause) stricken by periodic fits of depression about human nature you know

well that's it you know I I think (pause) y you get a very negative sort of outlook (pause) you know you're just

mm-hm

dealing with the same type of person

yeah (pause) did you think most of the people that you had to deal with were like you know sort of well not interested in finding jobs for themselves

well there's quite a few of them (pause) quite honestly spongers you know

mm

but lots of them (pause) you know (pause) really out of work (unclear)

yeah (unclear)

difficult y you can tell the two the two types (pause) (interruption) quite easily

(unclear) (pause) yeah I suppose it must have been quite depressing recently if you never had any jobs to give them you know I mean

yes that that was it you know especially (pause) during the winter you know when the building trade was (unclear)

yes yeah yeah

anyway I was talking about college wasn't I yeah

mm-hm

ehm

why did you why why did you decide to (pause) jack it in and go to college like

well I just I've always fancied teaching really

mm

ehm

but you didn't ehm (pause) you didn't go to it straight (interruption) as soon as you left school (unclear)

no not straight away (pause) don't know why (pause) fancied earning some money I suppose

yeah mm

doing eh (pause) religious studies

are you (unclear) still do that

then going back to I qualified for the B Ed

(unclear)

did a course

(unclear)

last term this term

yeah

and ehm be going back to do history (pause) as well as R S

mm-hm does that mean you'll do (pause) four years now

yeah another three years

mm

mm

are you doing any teaching this year

yes I did teaching practice at Stanley

did you

that's a marvellous place

yeah

have you never been there

no I don't think so (unclear)

it's absolutely great

how do you mean like the people (unclear)

well (pause) (unclear) it's just a (pause) depressing sort of area

is it

very depressing

(unclear)

grey grim

(laughter) (unclear)

grimy

mm what what did you think of ehm (pause) of teaching you know some of my friends say it's a eh horrific experience almost

well I suppose it is when you go into a secondary modern school but I've never been into one yet you know

oh well just just been teaching the

(unclear) in a primary school

just a oh

junior school

(unclear)

I'm dreading next year's teaching practice

yeah yeah (pause) (unclear) there is a friend of mine had some pretty rough experiences down at Walker comprehensive (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter)

(unclear) want to get (interruption) stuck in a place like

he's never actually been knifed yet (laughter)

(laughter) not quite no but he quite a lot of tussles with the (pause) the young lads down there mm

yes well I was working as the probation officer for the last two weeks of term

yeah

you know attached to Gateshead (pause) and some of the cases of ehm that we dealt with there you know the

mm

we we found that there'd there'd been trouble all through through school life and then (interruption) it had (pause) finally come out in criminality after they'd left school

(unclear) (pause) yeah yeah

most of them hated school

pr (pause) yes probably all through their home life and that (interruption) as well (unclear)

yes that's probably it

just done for from the start really yeah (pause) (unclear) ehm (pause) eh (pause) what eh (pause) it's another artificial topic of conversation you see ehm (pause) what eh what kinds of things do you like to do in your spare time you know (unclear)

well I don't get any spare time (laughter) (unclear)

(laughter)

eh (pause) mm I listen to records I like listening to records (interruption) you can probably see

yeah (pause) that's a Gateshead library record isn't it

that's that's one of them yes that one

mm

I just got that out out this afternoon

it's good a place that isn't it the record library

it's quite good they've shifted they've moved it you know

have they moved (unclear)

yes (unclear)

(unclear)

quite a good selection

(unclear)

some of them are pretty badly marked though

that's true yeah yeah

scratched

mm (pause) (unclear) do you like Sibelius or is that just a (unclear)

not particularly I mean I just I I like that (pause) bit of Sibelius Finlandia and the Karelia Suite

yeah

that's about all I've really got used to (unclear) (interruption) I find it difficult to get used to

aye (pause) I used to be a real Sibelius (unclear) at one time you develop a (unclear) geet young and romantic like you now (unclear) great (unclear)

yes (pause) I don't know very much about Sibelius I wish I I wish I could like (pause) you know what's on the other side of that record you know

(unclear)

what is it Valse Triste

Valse Triste yeah

and something else

one of the little little pieces (unclear)

yes

(unclear)

(unclear) little pieces

mm (pause) it's a nice record player (unclear)

yeah that was a wedding present

was it

(unclear) (pause) in laws come in handy sometimes you know

true true (pause) th they they seem to be one of the few i items that's getting cheaper these days it's you know

yes that was quite reasonable (unclear) I think it was just in the region of about forty odd (pause) (interruption) quid

yeah mm-hm it's surprising

(unclear)

separate sets you know they (pause) (interruption) used to be really expensive

mm-hm

(unclear)

it's a BSR deck as well you know

(unclear)

it's supposed to be pretty reliable

yeah (pause) ehm do you go out very often or do you stay in most of the time

I think I stay in most the time (pause) quite a bit of work to do well I've been working up to exams you know since getting married

(unclear) you had some this year did you

yes

(unclear)

we've been out you know this week quite often we've been up to the pub in this hot weather

yeah

you know

(unclear) you're a better man than me if you can (interruption) work during the evenings you know

(laughter)

I cut off at about 7 o'clock

apart from doing this of course (unclear) (pause) good fun

it's good fun yes mm mm what about ehm watching television do you watch telly (unclear)

oh I haven't got a telly

have you not that's good (unclear) (laughter)

well I think it you know you find yourself wasting a lot of time with the television (unclear)

yes

I would anyway I'm sure I would

that's true

I'm sure I'd become a telly addict

aye yes (pause) yeah I was talking to a bloke the other night who had got rid of his for this purpose

yes

not because he didn't like it but because he thought he was getting mm mm

because I love westerns you know

(unclear) (laughter)

(unclear) and on once I start watching anything on the t

(laughter)

TV I just can't switch it off

yeah yeah (pause) it's a it's a great r relaxing thing (interruption) (unclear) chair

(unclear)

ehm (pause) we are eh (pause) also (unclear) interested in some words that you use for things ehm (pause) first could you tell us eh just what you call each of the rooms in this house you know what your normal word is for each room

eh well this is the sitting room

yeah

bedroom (pause) dining room

mm

eh kitchen bathroom (pause) and I suppose that's the long passage out there

yeah

(unclear)

yeah eh and ehm to get out your back door you have to lift the what do you call that

yes well I know two words for that (pause) w well I just suppose I call it the latch

yeah

there is like the word 'sneck'

aye

but I don't use it

you don't (unclear) call it (unclear) sneck

no

no ehm (pause) (unclear) (pause) ehm and do you know eh if you've got a coal fire what do you call the thing you stand in front of it to get it going

oh yes there's a very good word for that it's a 'bleezer'

mm-hm mm (pause) and eh what do you call eh cleaning the plates and things after a meal

washing up

mm-hm mm ta

am I giving all the standard Geordie answers (laughter)

(laughter) no no not not not at all in fact (laughter)

I don't mind

do you think of yourself as being very Geordie

well (pause) I wouldn't like to become so affected that I was (pause) worried about having a Geordie accent I like accents I think they're

mm

you know not not too much of a one though

mm

otherwise e well everyone speaks the same you know (pause) not really very interesting

aye you wouldn't think it would be a good idea for everybody to talk the (interruption) same

no I certainly wouldn't

no (pause) but would you say that you ehm (pause) do you (unclear) disapprove of local accents you know if they're very broad

no

no

never

not particularly what if ehm you know if if you had a a some children and and they used very (pause) broad speech do you think you would correct them about it

that's pretty difficult ehm (pause) well I think most people are bilingual anyway

aye

you know ehm they have their local dialect when they're at home

yeah (interruption) that's true like

(unclear) various people and they have another language when they're talking to superiors

mm

(unclear)

yes do you do you find that that you do that specifically (interruption) I mean do you have to

yes yes I'm sure I do

aye what ehm eh (pause) in what sort of circumstances do you think you change you know mm (pause) what sort of people would you have to be talking to to

well you know when I used to work in the dole

(unclear)

you know I didn't use to put on like any sort of affected

yeah

affectations there you know

aye

when you're talking (pause) I suppose there is such a thing as a class (pause) system you know (unclear)

(unclear) aye and what about what what would you say about the way you're talking at the moment you know is this a is this a dole voice (unclear)

no (pause) it's fairly normal with me I think

this would be (pause) I mean the way you would talk to your wife for instance

yeah

or your friends (unclear)

except for the few ings on the end of the words which she'd probably (pause) pick up them

(laughter) yeah

(laughter)

(laughter) I'm not listening for them at the moment but when I get this to analyse I'll be listening for

(unclear)

(laughter) aye but y you reckon you have more sort of (pause) you have more localized and less localized (unclear) ehm (pause) varieties than you're speaking at the moment

yes

aye

yeah

mm mm

well (unclear) why aye man you know (interruption) I would never use that (pause) just at the moment (unclear)

mm-hm (pause) (laughter)

I would with friends

that was a quotation yeah mm ehm mm would you also say that you know on a fairly (pause) long term basis that you've always talked the same all during your life

I don't think so I think (pause) I've probably changed you know I went to a grammar school

yeah you went to Gateshead grammar

yeah

mm

I think it probably changed (pause) round about the age of eleven (pause) you know from then onwards

yeah going towards sort of (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

you know my brother just went to an ordinary secondary modern school

mm-hm

you know I suppose there was a difference between the way I'll talk now and the way he talks now

(unclear) yeah

you know

mm so you were more localized when you were young in fact probably (unclear)

(unclear)

(unclear) very true mm (pause) ehm (pause) you know ehm (pause) what do you think of you know the sort of BBC voice the newsreader's accent

yeah

ehm what do you think of that you know do you think is a

well it's (interruption) (unclear)

particularly good way to talk or

I think (unclear) it's all right on the television (pause) but I think (pause) if you actually had someone standing in front of you

(unclear)

and talking to you like that I think you'd be pretty uncomfortable (interruption) unless you talk like that

(unclear) (pause) yes I know what you mean

you know I think it sounds

yes

I don't think it sounds very nice

mm

sounds all right on the on the box

mm-hm yeah do you ehm do you know very many people personally who talk like that (unclear)

(unclear)

like among your friends let's say apart from perhaps lecturers at college (unclear)

well I have friends at college you know who come from different parts of the country you know further south

yeah

(unclear) talk more like that

mm

you know I know one lad who comes from Oxford and he talks (interruption) (pause) rather like that yeah

(laughter) yes (pause) I think that's the centre of all these

(unclear)

(laughter) yeah

I haven't any friends around here you know who talk like that

no

local friends

no there aren't very many you can yeah you can nearly you can always tell people who come from Tyneside whereas you know ehm no matter how much they try to change

even the lecturers at college you know some of them come from like one of them comes from around here Tyneside Newcastle you know and you can still tell

(unclear) (pause) ehm do you feel ehm that there's fairly strong eh (pause) class correlation with language you know do you think you can (pause) make good guesses about people's social status and so on from the way they talk

I think you can but (pause) it comes unstuck you know

it does yes it yes

eh you find blokes who've been (pause) tuppeny ha'penny clerks you know in the civil service

mm

but they've ehm (pause) beautiful accents you know

yeah it's yes it's (unclear)

rather complicated accents you know I couldn't be like that really

aye (pause) yeah but in in general would you say that

I think (interruption) so

you're not against I mean eh (pause) like when you were at the dole for instance and coming into contact with (pause) perhaps lots of people who did lots of different jobs do you think you could tell (pause) you know somebody who worked in a factory from somebody who worked in an office

well the labouring class never speaks with an Oxford English

mm (pause) mm yeah but th they obviously would probably speak a different variety of Tyneside I would think (unclear)

(unclear)

you know c do you think you could tell the difference between like a labourer and a you know a civil servant you know like a C O at the ministry

well yes (laughter) yes I think I could

yes that's good yeah

their language is probably a lot more coarse to start with

yes even though they would both be recognisably Tyneside

yes

yeah (pause) mm mm (pause) mm (pause) what eh this is a should be an interesting question eh what what sort of accent would you say that I've got from listening to it now

well I think you'd have a a Tyneside accent

yeah

ehm I don't know what side of the river

you c you you can't you can't particularly guess about that

no

never no

no

ehm

it's Gateshead or Newcastle isn't

(unclear)

east (pause) certainly isn't east

it's not Walker (laughter)

no it's not Walker

(laughter) yeah what about ehm would you say it was like yours

probably

mm (pause) good eh yes I suppose that figures because we probably come from very similar sort of background if you (unclear) think about (unclear)

(unclear)

but (unclear) (unclear) it isn't from Gateshead you know could be (unclear)

(unclear)

from Gateshead (unclear) (pause) mm (pause) ehm (unclear) I I take it that people c can normally tell that you come from Tyneside you know when you're in other parts of the country

well I was sitting sitting in a train once coming home from Yorkshire and there's there was this lad talking to me you know and he couldn't (pause) he wouldn't have been able to tell

yeah

(unclear)

did your your your mother came from Yorkshire

yeah

did she talk in a Yorkshire accent you know

she doesn't now

no

apart from one or two little

aye

odd expressions can't remember them now

does she talk fairly typical Tyneside now

yes I would say so

(unclear) aye you don't you don't remember there being like like a Yorkshire influence (interruption) (unclear)

(unclear) I was very young I suppose but I can't remember that

(unclear) (pause) mm mm ehm (pause) do you think that you could just read that list of words for us please

all right

fairly quickly

find mind fly bill well men head back farm wall daughter down take straight cold alone poor fire four tower path after earth year me field been new moon school revolution but none seven one long holiday room book good maker wafer happy Harry Mary yes better something fall which apple television absent realize Newcastle Seahouses method concert descend chocolate explain industry condemn tissue with film

mm ta (pause) I think you read them in fact you know most people change their voice quite a lot when they read but you d (unclear) I didn't notice that you did you know you seemed to read them as (unclear) as you would say them in conversation (pause) (unclear) oh I tell you what I meant to ask you as well about ehm eh if you believe in this sort of thing eh which way do you vote

eh well to tell you the truth I don't really know you know eh (interruption) last time I voted with Tory

yeah (pause) did you (interruption) (unclear)

well I'm having having my doubts now

aye (laughter)

I think I'm a socialist at heart really

aye

eh you know I've I haven't got much faith in politics

mm you don't you know I'm I'm assum it looks like you don't have any faith at all in the present Labour party

no I (pause) I don't really know I (interruption) you know it's hard to say

mm (pause) but you (unclear) you reckon that you'll probably change your vote (interruption) (unclear)

I think I probably will yes (unclear) most of the population do I think

ah I I I (interruption) I don't think this is true actually

(unclear) (pause) don't you

no I think you're a very odd sort of (unclear) because ehm (pause) most of the people I've interviewed are fairly s you know fairly strongly set in one in one track or (unclear)

I voted Labour because my father voted Labour

exactly yes (pause) and and even funnier I I I vote Conservative because we own this house (laughter)

yes mm-hm

you know which is quite common (pause) some people are honest enough to admit it but it's eh you know for some people it's probably true (unclear)

well I j I just don't know you know I think I think I've (pause) got more socialist ideals than Tory ideals you know

mm yeah

I feel more at home with eh (pause) working class people (interruption) (unclear)

mm yes

I think

mm mm do you do you think it's ehm you know what do you think of eh like the notion that working class people ought to vote Labour you know which is you know which is very common do you think it's the do you think it's the sort of thing that ought to come into voting or

well it happens doesn't it

it happens yeah but you know (interruption) do you think (unclear) do you think it should happen that the point

(unclear) (pause) well that's a different matter you know I I wouldn't like to

(unclear)

prognosticate and that (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear)

(unclear) would like to say about that (pause) I'm not a political thinker

(unclear) (pause) yes eh that it's you know it always looks to me as if there's two ways of voting you know you (interruption) can either vote because of some sort of well ideological alignment (interruption) or because (pause) eh you know or because you like the manifesto of one party and you think they're going to do better for the country (interruption) (unclear)

(interruption) mm (interruption) yes (interruption) or because it's just your class you vote that way

yes mm mm mm (pause) ehm (pause) anyway back to eh (pause) getting back to language eh (interruption) I've I've got a

(unclear)

yeah I I've got a ehm a list of words here which I'm going to read out and they're all sort of fairly local words you know and I would just like to know eh firstly if you're familiar with it and secondly eh if you use it yourself you know

mm-hm

eh aside for beside

beside

yeah do you say do you ever say it's just aside the fire (unclear)

no

no

I don't say that

ehm bairn (pause) little bairn

(unclear) (pause) no I don't say it (unclear)

no ehm bait

yes

right eh bonny

(unclear) yes

(unclear) bray

(unclear)

(unclear)

(unclear) fun you know

mm-hm

I say lots of these words in fun

yes yeah (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

you know where's my bait you know

yes (unclear) yeah ehm (pause) bullets

no

no (unclear) clamming

I know it I don't use it

(unclear) ehm boody

now I didn't know that at all until eh (pause) at Scott Dobson's (interruption) (unclear) thing it was yeah

(laughter) (pause) (unclear) (pause) ehm cree

cree (pause) I know of it I don't don't use it

mm mm mm eh fettle

I know it I don't use it

do you not do you never say to fettle this or (interruption) (unclear) fettle this

oh fettle (unclear) yes uh-huh

yes yeah

there's another meaning for that isn't there

well you can be in good fettle and that (unclear) but I think that I think they're you know they're (interruption) I'll fettle it meaning's more common

(unclear)

but you know (unclear)

I think I used to use it

mm yeah (pause) pretty useful sort of word

it is isn't it

eh (pause) gully

gully (pause) no I don't I never I don't use (interruption) (unclear)

for a bread knife

yeah

ehm howk

(laughter) yes (interruption) (unclear)

(laughter) (unclear)

well yes I sometimes used that one in the firm actually

right ehm mense be more to your mense to get some work done

I've never heard that

no (unclear) ehm (pause) parky

yes I know of that one I don't use it

like being fussy about (interruption) your food (unclear)

(unclear)

ehm (pause) varnigh

don't know (unclear)

mm (unclear) for nearly (unclear) varnigh missed the bus

no don't know it

(unclear) eh mell

no don't know that one

no for a hammer eh what about eh knooled to be knooled

no I don't know that one

no (unclear) to be hen pecked or kept down

(unclear)

nice word (unclear) ehm (pause) ow eh more or less on the same lines like I'm going to read out eh (pause) this list of sentences and for each one I would like to know ehm if it sounds like a fairly normal sort of sentence to you you know they're all they're all sort of bits of localized grammar eh that you might or might not have so just if it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstances (interruption) arose like you know

uh-huh

ehm (pause) (unclear) were you wakened last night when I came in

no

mm

were you awake

yes eh I was still a bed when you called this morning

no

no ehm (pause) he never gave us any

yes I would use that

(unclear) eh do you not go there very often

I use that

mm ehm they're useless them

yes I would use that

(unclear) me and John went to the races on Saturday

yes

mm ehm I might could manage it

yeah

(unclear) ehm it's ower big to get through there

pardon

it's ower big to get through there

no

no eh (pause) eh you know my cousin that her husband died

maybe maybe yes

mm (unclear) (pause) eh with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her

no

mm-hm eh (pause) eh ehm (unclear) I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

yes

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

no

(unclear) eh (pause) these ones are pretty big to them others

possibly

(unclear)

(laughter)

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

no

no (unclear) (pause) I think we're going to be soon for the picture

yes

mm-hm (pause) eh would you mind stop talking

no

(unclear) no do you want a cup of tea making

yes

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

yes

yeah eh he happened a nasty accident

no

no ehm (pause) I've put the kettle on for to make some tea

yes

mm ehm (pause) I wanted for to talk to you about it

no

(unclear) when did it happen you

(unclear)

when did it happen you

no

(unclear) I've got money belonging him

no

(unclear) ehm could you mind your head so as I can see out the back

yes

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

yeah

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

no

mm-hm eh (pause) we've been waiting of a bus

yes

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

no

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

yes

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

sometimes

(unclear) ehm many people were there there

no

no ehm where did you get it at

yes

eh never mind I'll manage but

no

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

no

no eh (pause) me and George is going to the town today

no

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

no

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

no

no ehm they'd not seen it

no

no ehm what would you prefer to say they (interruption) hadn't seen it

they hadn't seen it

right yeah ehm it's far too long this

yes

(unclear) how's your wife and family then

yes

mm ehm Joe cannot come tomorrow being as he's working late

no

no ehm what is it he does for a living

yes

(unclear) eh he wants his wages paid immediately

y yes (unclear)

eh just light the fire on will you

no

mm-hm ehm (pause) I'll clout yous both in a minute

possibly yes (laughter) (unclear)

yeah ehm how much have they offered we

yes

mm-hm eh (pause) pass us one of them spanners

yes

yeah eh I've broke a plate

yes

mm ehm I come this morning but you weren't in

yes

mm eh he done it all right

yes

mm ehm I had forgetten to buy the onions

(unclear)

yes eh he give us a pound for doing it

yes

yeah eh we had went to the coast for the day

no

no (unclear) I seen Albert on Tuesday

yes

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

no

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

no

no eh I'll probably see him a Saturday

no

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

no

mm eh you've letten him get away

yes

ehm ehm my mother's keep coming in to see us

yes

mm eh (pause) we'll sharp get this done

yes

mm ehm he's as Tyneside as what I am

no

no ehm (pause) you used to sweep the floor and us used to wash the dishes

no

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

I won't be going there this week (laughter)

(unclear) ehm again the opposite of he's got some

he hasn't any

mm ta the opposite of he's seen that picture

he hasn't seen that picture

mm yeah eh (pause) the opposite of you're working late tonight

you're aren't working late tonight

s come again

you aren't working late tonight

(laughter) eh the opposite of I gave him one

I didn't give him (pause) one

(unclear) ehm suppose eh you went up to somebody in the street to ask for a match what would you say

have you got a light please yes

mm yeah eh and could you just finish off this sentence ehm I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

today

yes ta