Archive Interview: TLSG21
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Speaker 1: | interviewerTLSG21 |
Speaker 2: | informantTLSG21 |
Age Group: | 21-30 |
Gender: | Female |
Residence: | Tyneside - Gateshead |
Education: | Left school at 16; subsequent college (day release) |
Occupation: | Clerical Worker (Employment Exchange) |
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well I think they're friendlier you know they tend to talk on the buses and things like that more than you find in other places |
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yeah yeah most people think (unclear) (pause) eh whereabouts were your parents born as well |
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eh my mother was born New York near Tynemouth |
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yes |
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and eh my father was born in Carr Hill in Gateshead |
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yes yeah and eh and what's your father's occupation |
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ehm he was a (unclear) he's had an accident and he's not working at the moment |
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I see yes ehm (pause) |
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eh B |
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ta and eh on what basis you occupy this house again if you could just say the letter |
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ehm (pause) well (interruption) my mother and father own it (laughter) |
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A yes (laughter) ta (pause) |
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eh the employment exchange Felling the dole you know |
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as (interruption) as what |
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(unclear) on Holly Hill clerical officer interviewer |
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yeah you actually eh (interruption) receive the the punters (unclear) yes |
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interview the public yeah (laughter) |
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yes my cousin works in eh Walker at at the same job yeah yeah |
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oh |
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do you eh what do you think of it as a job do you enjoy it |
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well I've been there six years you know first at Birtley and then at Felling and I've enjoyed it you know I enjoy working there because ehm every day's not the same |
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yes |
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they've all got different problems you know |
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yes |
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you get bored with it like you do with everything else but I I find it yeah quite nice |
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yeah do you do you never find people hard to handle or anything like that |
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well you get your awkward customers as you do with everything you know |
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but ehm (pause) I feel if you treat people with respect you know you get the same back |
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yes yes |
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I haven't had any bother personally but I've I've watched other people have bother you know (laughter) |
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yeah |
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you can imagine the type we get good cross section of the public |
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oh yeah yes or even a rather special sort of cross section (laughter) you know |
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(laughter) well you know we get commercial I deal with commercials and women mainly but ehm of course we also get the labourers ex convicts and things like this |
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yes |
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but ehm they're all people (unclear) |
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what ehm what sort what sort |
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well (pause) I would say a minority anyway |
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yes |
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everyone's got basic you know are lazy basically I think but ehm |
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that's true yes aye |
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you get the type that are just bone |
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yes |
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and they'll never work no matter what we do they'll never work but you get the other ones who I feel want work you know |
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yes and you reckon they in fact are the the majority you know you're not you're not disillusioned with the human race anyway |
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well I don't know I think it's the there's not enough opportunities for them you know if you could get people a |
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yes |
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but a benefits are at the moment they're getting more unemployed and personally I can't blame them you know |
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yes (unclear) |
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(unclear) sort of (pause) some of them are getting (pause) between fifteen and twenty pound |
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yes |
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now I offer them a job for twelve or thirteen and I can't see them taking it you know eh I don't feel |
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yes yes this is eh this is just not |
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this is the problem you know |
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yes it's an argument I have over and over again with my friends (unclear) |
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(laughter) if there was full employment I I don't think |
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yes |
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whereas it is now you've got nothing to offer them |
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yeah |
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and you just have to let them (laughter) collect their money each week |
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yes yes eh is this the only job you've ever done did you do that as soon (interruption) as you left school |
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well I worked on a Saturday (pause) in a shop in a shoe shop |
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yeah |
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eh sixteen |
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aye |
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just over sixteen |
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yeah eh do you think you were glad to leave school or not |
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no I w |
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and then when I failed my O levels I thought oh well I might as well just take it and you know I've en I've enjoyed working there |
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yes so which school did you go to |
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Elgin secondary technical school |
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did you |
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mm-hm |
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eh (pause) and have you had any further |
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I went for two years day release with ehm the civil service you know to get the day off a week I had to do O level course there I took ehm since then well I went two year ago and did A level sociology and English literature |
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oh |
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(laughter) |
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yes |
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and I only did one year of the literature then I dropped it it was too much I felt well I was going two nights a week and I couldn't cope with working two nights and the study |
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mm-hm |
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there was so much reading to do you know |
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yeah |
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and to be beneficial in my job I had to get the two together |
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mm-hm (interruption) yes |
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so (pause) you know I just packed it in I may do it later on |
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oh yeah it's sort of ehm (pause) it's crucial for some kind of promotion isn't it having two (interruption) together |
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yeah you need to have two together well (pause) there's no point in me taking just one you know other than just |
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sheer interest (laughter) yeah |
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well I felt it was doing better than just you know sitting around at least I was improving my mind (laughter) |
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yes good because you've still you'll still have ehm sort of better chances for promotion (interruption) in any case (unclear) |
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yes all well I'm eligible for |
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yes |
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after you've done a certain length of time you know you're elligible for promotion |
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mm eh (pause) y (pause) eh you were living |
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mm-hm |
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eh did you think it was a very good place to live from your point of view as a child you know do you did you like living here |
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yes because ehm at that time there was a lot of people of my age group you know around here |
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mm-hm mm-hm |
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yes |
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ehm I've always had a close friend near at hand (interruption) you know |
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aye yes |
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sort of ehm well there was two actually girls in the street the same age when I was younger |
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yes yes did you ehm was it was it the sort of place where kids used to play a lot you know |
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yeah (interruption) yeah |
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not it's never been sort of a rough place you know or a place where you played noisy games because (laughter) they're all old people (laughter) |
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(laughter) yes |
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(laughter) ehm but we always played out mm-hm not like they don't pay out now like we used to you know |
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no yes I |
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even though I'm not all that old |
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(laughter) |
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(laughter) there seems to be ehm they don't seem to play out as much |
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yes I know I I don't know whether that's eh I I have the same impression you know and e almost everybody in the interview says the same thing I don't know whether it's perhaps that we just don't notice them you know |
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possibly |
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(unclear) (interruption) (unclear) |
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well my friends who have children I know they they don't play out (unclear) |
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yes |
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because she takes her round you know in and out of cars sort of more than anything else you know |
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mm yes |
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but just (pause) I don't think it's a good thing |
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yes probably just watch television all the time |
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well they don't mix with so many different people you know it makes it difficult when they start school |
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yeah yeah (pause) |
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oh no I remember playing it we used to play it at school (pause) ehm |
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people have |
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yeah I think (interruption) that's what we called it mm-hm |
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did you yeah (pause) and what did you say about the one who had to chase the other did you say she was on |
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she was on yeah mm-hm something like that |
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and eh |
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I can't even remember you know it's just vague sort of games we played |
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yes people who can |
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no |
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no |
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I can't remember I think everybody just got sick and you just you know finished it |
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mm ehm (pause) still on the eh (pause) on the topic of what words you use for things could you tell us just eh what you call each of the rooms in this house what your normal word is for each room |
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ehm (unclear) kitchen |
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uh-huh yes |
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oh there's bathroom |
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uh-huh and what about what you're in when you when you come through the front door |
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ehm passage |
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mm |
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eh again if you had a if you had a coal fire what do you call the thing that you stand in front of it to get it going |
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a |
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no to get it going you had to ehm if you have a she you know you have a sheet of tin just to stand (interruption) in front to get |
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blazer a blazer or bleezer that's it isn't it a (interruption) bleezer mm-hm |
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yeah mm-hm mm and what do you ehm call cleaning the plates and things after a meal |
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washing the dishes |
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yes ta |
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I go out you know usually to a pub I like ehm to go where there's something on (unclear) |
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yeah (unclear) a drink |
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or something like that mm |
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where |
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ehm I go to the pubs in Gateshead or well I like the Crown in Low Fell sort of the Ravensworth I like the we usually go out sort of into the country pubs |
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yes |
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ehm our friend plays in a group and we usually go to the working men's clubs |
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aye |
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you know and to see other groups that he's to recommend |
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mm yes I go to the Crown very occasionally myself |
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mm-hm I I used to like it before actually before they converted it because it was quiet there and it was just there was something about it you know (unclear) |
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I don't think |
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it was just two rooms and in the back they used to get sort of a very upper middle class and in the front the young sort of teeny bopper types |
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(laughter) |
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and the everybody sort of knew each other you know you could see the same faces coming in each night |
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yes |
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but since they've ehm changed it it's too crowded |
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yes |
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you can't get a drink you know you stand next to the scrunched up |
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yes the eh the the Ravensworth it's a terribly eh county set sort of place as well isn't it (interruption) it's |
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mm-hm I don't like it since they put ehm a new part on where you can get snacks and that |
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have |
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mm-hm and I don't like it now not as much as I used to I liked to sit in the garden and that I think that's the attraction (unclear) you've got the garden |
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yes (pause) eh what about ehm television do you watch television |
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sometimes yes well the television's on all night |
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you know my parents watch it all night |
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yes |
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so where I'm if I'm in you know I pa sort of partially watch it |
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yes do you what's is there anything you particularly like to watch |
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mm nothing in particular ehm I've got pretty broad taste you know (unclear) quite a few things |
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well when I get married I wouldn't have one |
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mm |
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you know probably not initially maybe later on but |
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yes uh-huh |
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it's not a thing I'd go out and buy as one of the first things |
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yeah same with me I haven't got one either ehm (pause) |
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I'd like to go abroad to to work |
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yes |
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you know to live and to get to know people |
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rather than I think I've had a very sheltered life you know just Gateshead (unclear) I've been abroad on holiday but no worked of ehm outside of Gateshead you know other than Birtley and that just within the same areas and ehm I feel I haven't met enough people |
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mm-hm |
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you know to be able to judge people |
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mm do you think you'll ehm stay in the same job you're in now or not (unclear) (interruption) or do you think you'll ever up your roots and you know go abroad and do something |
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ehm until I'm married (pause) until I'm married I'll |
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(laughter) yes a cunning (unclear) (unclear) |
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(laughter) |
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eh (pause) |
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explain to them why you know why they're getting wrong |
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yes |
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ehm (pause) I don't really believe in smacking them |
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mm-hm yes |
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but I think to explain it more than anything else I think that's where a lot of parents go wrong |
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yes yes so you you wouldn't actually hit them except in rare circumstances |
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less I think unless I lost my temper |
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(laughter) yes and what about you know a young person of say sixteen or so what sort of do you think the parents should have any control over them |
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just to advise you know I wouldn't say you do this |
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yes you you wouldn't want to sort of ehm make sure they were in by a certain time at night (interruption) (unclear) |
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no well I think at sixteen they should know I would say well I expect you to be in by a certain time knowing |
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(laughter) yes that's great |
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well you wouldn't want them to be off the straight and narrow you wouldn't not if you were like that when you were young yourself (laughter) |
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(laughter) |
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I don think it's difficult you know to ehm |
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yeah yeah |
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to eh sort of say be in by a certain time when |
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yeah |
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you did the complete opposite |
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yes yes it's like smoking and things like that isn't it people always tell their kids not to smoke even if they do themselves eh and this is ehm a question you don't have to answer if you don't want to because eh some people don't eh which way do you vote |
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does that mean does that mean you're regretting it (laughter) |
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well I thought they might do more for the country than they did |
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yeah yeah well it ehm would you |
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I well basically the ideas ehm the |
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mm yeah |
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but ehm the way things are everything seems to have tightened up you know |
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yes yes |
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sort of (unclear) so I don't know whether I did the right thing or not when you think of the increased numbers of |
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yes yes do you think that do you think that you'll always vote the same way or do you think that you'll change according to |
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I think my vote will change probably every time I vote because I've got that type of mind you know the sort of mind that jumps from one thing to the other |
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mm eh do |
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well I know it |
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mm-hm mm |
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I can't say |
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yeah yeah but you ehm you don't you wouldn't imagine yourself voting because of ehm you know whether you |
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no (pause) well my par my mother's straight (unclear) dad's Labour so I'm torn between two you know (laughter) |
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yes yes eh mm (pause) now if we can |
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all the time because i it's the job |
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yes |
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ehm (pause) if I get a a chap that speaks broad Tyneside he's not going to be at ease if I talk all sort of lardy da and the other way round if I get a commercial and I talk broad Tyneside he's going to think oh it is an opinion people get you know they think because someone talks in a local accent that |
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aye yeah |
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I've noticed this you know even with just the people I work with that their accents change according to the to the people they interview |
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yes what ehm what sort of voice would you say you were talking in at the moment |
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ordinary I've talked |
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so this is your I mean would you say this was your most localized voice |
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mm-hm |
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yes yes ehm yeah and do you also think that eh on a fairly long term basis you've talked more or less the same all your life |
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no it's always been very much the same ehm maybe a bit more slang when I was younger you know |
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yeah yes |
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but other than that I'm just just the same |
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yeah (pause) eh on the whole do you eh approve of people talking in local accents you know well |
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well |
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an aesthetic matter you know you think that one sounds nicer than than the other but you you wouldn't say that you disapproved of say broad localized accents for any other reason I mean you don't? |
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well they're difficult to understand people that speak broad Tyneside |
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aye |
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just the same as if we went to London you know and we heard a Cockney and we would find it difficult to understand |
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yes |
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yeah |
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I would because I (laughter) I do it |
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aye |
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I don't believe that but eh |
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(laughter) you mean it sounds all right on stage or something like that you know I mean that it's not quite a that broad Tyneside isn't quite a language to speak but a language to listen to on special occasions for amusement or something |
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not for amusement I would say ehm |
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yes (interruption) yes yes |
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and yet I do in my own life you know I mean my friends always correct |
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yes this I |
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and I suppose I might correct my children just as a matter of ehm (pause) (interruption) it's the thing to do to to speak properly |
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yeah (pause) it's a strange thing (unclear) nearly everybody corrects their children about it even the most broad Tyneside speakers you know |
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mm-hm |
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which is odd |
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I don't know why yeah |
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mm |
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and employers do consider that you know (laughter) |
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nasty ehm (pause) do you think that eh you know eh say the way the newsreaders speak on television when they're |
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it sounds false you know |
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yeah |
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it sounds put on (pause) but ehm (pause) I've never given it much thought really |
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it doesn't sound like anything that |
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no maybe a bit too |
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do you know anybody yourself that talks very like that |
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yes one or two |
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mm |
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ehm (pause) both of them are (pause) members of the theatrical (pause) |
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uh-huh |
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and probably th I always put it down to that (unclear) |
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(laughter) uh-huh mm eh this might eh m might strike you as a rather vague sort of question but eh well I don't know perhaps you're used to this sort of thing in your job what |
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class to a certain extent you know |
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yes |
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not that there |
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(laughter) everybody thinks they're working |
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(laughter) |
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yes would you say you could make fairly ehm you know fairly fine guesses about people or just broad ones you know I mean |
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you could probably put him in (unclear) one of three categories you know |
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so you would say whether (unclear) |
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depending on what you were talking about you know it would depend what he was talking about |
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mm-hm |
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you would need sort of |
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yes but would do you think then on the whole you could tell betw you know the difference between somebody who worked in a factory and somebody who worked in an office |
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well depending depends on the individual but you usu taken broadly you usually ehm |
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yes |
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but it's n I think it's because factory workers (pause) speak the tone you want you can say what you like where they sort of speak when when the opportunity arises |
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yes that's yeah there's definitely |
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and it depends on the type of work you do because if you're doing a repetitive job you know I could imagine you get pretty sick |
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yes |
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and sort of chunter on and that these girls in the eh you know when they're on the production lines and that if you |
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uh-huh uh-huh yeah (laughter) do you think that eh women tend to be less localized in than men (pause) you know on the whole would you say that you know a a man would usually be a more localized speaker than his wife |
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mm |
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you know I I know a lot of girls that just they speak the way they speak and they don't think any more about it and yet I know other girls who try to be |
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yes aye (pause) eh what ehm to take a a concrete example of this what would you say about my accent from listening to it |
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I wouldn't think you had any accent at all |
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really |
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no well I'd say you came from Tyneside but I wouldn't say you spoke broad Geordie |
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no no but I mm yes I'm always worried about people say that that do you think that if if you didn't you know I mean if you just sort of heard me passing on the street do you think you would ever do you think you would be able to guess that I was a Tynesider |
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yes I think so because people from other parts of the country they have sort of this difference in the way they speak you know as opposed to here |
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and what what would eh |
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well I wouldn't think I don't think he comes from round here |
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I see what you mean yes yes |
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but I wouldn't think he definitely lives on Tyneside |
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yes yes yes what would you say ehm how do you think my voice compares with yours |
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about the same perhaps I'm a bit more broad than you |
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really I I I was just sitting here thinking exactly the opposite |
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which is odd (laughter) it's g it's good that it's it's almost (unclear) really (unclear) about (laughter) |
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(laughter) |
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(unclear) the truth (unclear) we're seeking for the truth you know yeah it's funny and yet you know I was ehm (pause) of course I I might be talking differently |
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mm-hm |
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as far as I know I've always talked more or less the same |
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I don't think you notice sort of much yourself as probably an outsider |
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aye yes |
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you know sort of people I've worked with maybe they can |
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mm-hm |
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or people I haven't seen for a while to get them to express an opinion like that (laughter) |
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yes oh eh yes eh (pause) would you just read that list of words for us please |
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I should type that out again it's getting far too scruffy (unclear) now eh I'm going to read out a list of words and for each one |
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mm-hm |
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ehm (pause) aside for 'beside' |
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aside |
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would you say it's just aside the fire |
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no |
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just aside the fire |
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mm-hm eh a bairn |
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bairn yes |
Speaker 1: |
mm bait |
Speaker 2: |
bait yes |
Speaker 1: |
bonny |
Speaker 2: |
not so much no |
Speaker 1: |
no eh bray |
Speaker 2: |
bray |
Speaker 1: |
yeah (pause) you do but you wouldn't use it |
Speaker 2: |
I don't know what it means |
Speaker 1: |
for 'to hit' |
Speaker 2: |
oh bray |
Speaker 1: |
aye mm-hm |
Speaker 2: |
mm-hm yes I use it (laughter) |
Speaker 1: |
mm (laughter) bullets |
Speaker 2: |
bullets are sweets yes not very often you know but |
Speaker 1: |
yeah yeah clamming |
Speaker 2: |
mm-hm |
Speaker 1: |
mm boody |
Speaker 2: |
pardon |
Speaker 1: |
|
Speaker 2: |
no I don't know what that means |
Speaker 1: |
don't you ehm china broken ch especially broken china |
Speaker 2: |
oh (pause) I've heard of it but I I wouldn't say I used it |
Speaker 1: |
mm coin |
Speaker 2: |
coin maybe but I would (interruption) mean money |
Speaker 1: |
no |
Speaker 2: |
oh no turn the corner |
Speaker 1: |
yes aye |
Speaker 2: |
coin the corner (pause) no I wouldn't s I I know what it means |
Speaker 1: |
aye (pause) but you y y you have also heard eh ha haven't got much coin (unclear) |
Speaker 2: |
mm-hm (laughter) |
Speaker 1: |
ehm cree |
Speaker 2: |
for cradle |
Speaker 1: |
oh s |
Speaker 2: |
(laughter) |
Speaker 1: |
(unclear) me I usually think it's a place where you keep your pigeons |
Speaker 2: |
oh a pigeon cree |
Speaker 1: |
aye |
Speaker 2: |
yes I've heard of that and I would use it mm-hm |
Speaker 1: |
yes yes eh (pause) lowe lowe for a flame or a |
Speaker 2: |
no |
Speaker 1: |
give us a lowe for give us a light no ehm mense be more to your mense to get some work done |
Speaker 2: |
no |
Speaker 1: |
no eh parky |
Speaker 2: |
parky yeah |
Speaker 1: |
about your food |
Speaker 2: |
mm-hm |
Speaker 1: |
ehm varnigh |
Speaker 2: |
no |
Speaker 1: |
no ever heard it no varnigh very nearly varnigh missed the bus |
Speaker 2: |
oh I've probably heard it you know when you say it in a sentence it |
Speaker 1: |
mm-hm yeah |
Speaker 2: |
but I wouldn't I wouldn't use it |
Speaker 1: |
you wouldn't use it (pause) fair enough eh mell |
Speaker 2: |
|
Speaker 1: |
mm |
Speaker 2: |
(unclear) (laughter) |
Speaker 1: |
hammer |
Speaker 2: |
what's that hammer |
Speaker 1: |
I don't think many women use the word mell actually but it's what ehm (pause) you know it's what blokes always call a big hammer a big mell ehm what about eh knool to be knooled |
Speaker 2: |
knooled |
Speaker 1: |
uh-huh yes |
Using the Interview Interface
- On the left-hand side of the page are the audio player panel [1] and the interview transcript panel [2]. To scroll through the text, use the scroll bar on the right-hand side of the transcript panel.
- The speaker panels on the right [3] provide background details for the interview participants. The colour of the panel corresponds to the colour of that speaker's utterances in the transcript.
- The audio and transcript text are linked in 20 second segments. Click anywhere in the transcript to start playback from that 20 second segment (the audio may take a few moments to buffer).
- Alternatively, you can click the play button (>) in the audio panel to start the interview from the beginning and then click on the audio time-line to jump to that part of the recording and transcription.
- You can also fast forward (>>) and rewind (<<) the audio. It will jump 20 seconds with each click of the buttons.
- Select a theme from the panel on the right-hand side of the page [4] to highlight related key words in the transcript. The transcript will jump to the first relevant key word in the text. Scroll down through the transcript to see further highlighted words.
- Note 1: To preserve anonymity, personal names have been removed. They are replaced by "(NAME)" in the text, and silence in the audio. For the same reason, some references to places have also been removed, replaced by "(PLACE)" in the text.
- Note 2: Obscenities are blanked out in the text, and the 20 second segment of audio that contains them will not play. If the audio stops for this reason, click the fast forward button (>>) to resume playback with the next 20 second segment of audio.