T L S G five five

I was born in Bronte Street Gateshead

yes Sunderland Road

Sunderland off Sunderland Road

yes

uh-huh

eh and whereabouts else have you lived since then you know how long did you stay there

ehm I was there for thirteen year

aye

then I went to ehm Prince Consort Road

aye

now I have to add up here

(laughter)

thirteen (pause) about fourteen year then I got married

then you've been here since then aye ehm what did you think of eh those various places as you know as places to live in which did you like best

well as a child off Sunderland Road I think you mixed in more because the houses were terraced

aye yes

you know and then Prince Consort Road the people seemed to eh keep to theirselves more you know

yes

you didn't mix in so much nice mind nice locality

yes yeah I used to live in eh

mm-hm

Claremont North Avenue (unclear)

did you

yeah aye

off Coatsworth Road mm-hm

and what's what's this area like for sort of neighbourliness you know do you think

well this block it's very quiet because the next houses they're flats for old people

aye

they're not family (interruption) houses you see

aye yes

there's only like eh mind I have two daughters well they're both out all day

yes

but the next block's a family block which is very noisy

yes

but we d don't mix in much you know

you don't?

just keep eh (pause) to ourselves

yes you don't sort of know everybody on the block then

well I know them all but eh I'm not a one for running in and out (interruption) you know

aye aye I see what you mean ehm and what do you think of eh Gateshead as a place to live in you know compared with Newcastle for instance would you would you ever (interruption) move to Newcastle

I would never fancy Newcastle no I don't know why but ehm I would rather be in Gateshead

aye just really because you were born here (interruption) I suppose

I think so uh-huh

do you think you'll stay here for the rest of your life

yes it's quite nice here especially here because there's no houses opposite

aye

you know it's nice and quiet

yes eh and then ehm what do you think about eh Tyneside as a place to live you know I mean do you think Tynesiders are very different from o people from other parts of the country

well I haven't been very far really I haven't had the money to get very far and apart from that you know I think it's just what you're used to

yeah you've never been away from (interruption) Tyneside very much at all

no no not at all

mm eh whereabouts eh were your parents born please were they Gateshead

ehm (pause) my mother was born in Saltmeadows Gateshead my father was born in Byker

uh-huh

I think round about is there a Commercial Road

yes that rings a bell (interruption) yes yes

along there mm-hm

and eh what what was your father's occupation

blacksmith blacksmith striker mm-hm

ehm could you tell us please eh which age group you fall into on that card if you could just say the letter

D

ta and eh on what basis you occupy this house presumably C

well it'll be C (interruption) mm-hm

C is it yeah eh do you have any children by the way

two two girls one's ehm thirteen year old and the other one's nineteen year old

yeah yes and eh what where what do they do your youngest youngest (interruption) daughter's still at school

well my the youngest daughter's at Sunderland Saint Anthony's convent you know

ah yes

the grammar school

yes

and the oldest one she's eh works for the blood donor she's a (interruption) (unclear)

yes and eh

she went to La Sagesse before she got (pause) this job

oh I see yes eh and eh what does your husband do

telephonist at the Queen Elizabeth hospital

I see yeah and does he come from Tyneside as well

yes mm-hm

where was he born

Felling

yes

Wellington Street Felling

eh you eh I presume you don't work at the moment

no

eh

that's how I'm poor you see (interruption) (laughter)

(laughter) eh could you tell us eh what what jobs you have done in your life you know what did you do when you first left school

mm-hm eh I was a sewing machinist on a eyelet machine that was ehm putting eyelet holes in eider downs for the CWS Pelaw

ah yeah

then I went on to the trading estate the same kind of work

yes

and then a few year ago I went as a shop assistant for the store

in the Co op were you

uh-huh

whereabouts did you work

oh you were all over because we were on the bakery we had a site in each of the stores you know and we used to get moved around eh the Leam estate I've been on Saltwell Road Eastbourne Avenue Beacon Lough I think I've been in nearly all of them

mm-hm eh (pause) which eh which of those jobs did you enjoy best

being a shop assistant

yes just (interruption) (unclear)

I think meeting people and eh (pause) I used to be very soft you know if I got a thing that I wasn't suited I would keep it but when I was a shop assistant people used to bring the least thing back to you and it changed me so now I do that (laughter) which I wouldn't have dares do before hand

(laughter) yes yes it's always complainers and mm (pause) eh how old were you when you left school please

fourteen

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

pardon

do you think you were glad to leave school or not

well I don't know I liked school I always liked school mm-hm

yes eh and ehm y have you had any further education of any kind since you left school

oh no

no

haven't had the brains (laughter)

(unclear) eh would you say you know looking back on your education would you say that it had been worth very much to you in your life since you left

well I don't think so no

n no would you say you had more or less put it behind you like

mm-hm

yes mm

I think it's your upbringing at home in those days it can it's you know very strict upbringing I had but at the same time I think it makes you nervous at school you know

mm-hm yes mm do you think education's improved very much since you went to school you know

oh yes I'm left behind now with my two daughters I haven't a clue (laughter)

mm and eh do you think it's eh that education's pretty important for children nowadays I mean you know would you advise like your children to stay on at school if they po possibly could

yes I would advise them to they're getting a better chance than likes we ever got

mm-hm yes yes do you think there's anything wrong with schools these days

oh not a thing

not you don't?

no

you don't not even eh the state of discipline in them for instance

well I'm going by eh my own children

aye

they don't need discipline at school they get it so much at home they've had it so much at home but at the same time mind it made them soft with other children you know what I mean

mm-hm

I brought them up the way I was brought up myself

yes

well when they had to go to school they know the wrong things that they hadn't got to do well others just go ahead they don't think and I I still think it makes them that bit nervous as well

mm-hm

but I can take them anywhere (unclear)

yes

but the children of today mind they don't get disciplined but I think it's their home and their background that counts before school

yes more than the schools

mm-hm more than school

yes

if you're disciplined at home you don't need so much at school

mm-hm that's true yeah this eh this area has a bit of a reputation for hooliganism do you think is it is it true

oh I think it's more so over (unclear) Springwell

yes

I don't think it's so much Wrekenton mind it's more Aycliffe Avenue and these places mm-hm

aye yes I've I've heard that from people as well yes

uh-huh and of course they stray you know they come down this part but they don't belong here

yes ehm when you were eh fairly young yourself you know when you were under twelve say you were living on s in eh (interruption) Sunderland Road in Bronte Street yes eh did you think that was a good place to live from your point of view as a child then you know did you enjoy your childhood there would you say (interruption)

(interruption) Bronte Street (interruption) well I enjoyed my childhood

yes

and at the same time I don't know we didn't seem advanced like the children of today having to pick and choose we just got along with it didn't you

mm-hm

you had no say in the matter and you would never have thought of saying it you might get a clip (laughter)

yes do you eh can you remember any of the games you used to play or things you used to do then you know what sort of games did you play

ehm (pause) well we played cannon with the tin block putting sticks on and throwing the ball and knocking the sticks off you know

uh-huh yes

we played hot rice in the street

uh-huh yes

and eh of course we used to put eh rope on lampposts and have a swing

oh yes yes very clever that (unclear) (laughter) eh what did you used a call eh a game where one of the children has to chase the others to try to touch them

eh relievo we (interruption) used to call it

no I was thinking y yeah I used to play that as well

but some say long string o misery but (interruption) we didn't

aye yeah

yes

it was tiggy

I yes I was (interruption) on I was just thinking of what I

tiggy aye

tiggy

what I used to call tuggy

tuggy oh (interruption) we (unclear) didn't

tuggy or tiggy

ours was long string o misery or relievo

(unclear) tiggy you had to run and touch them yes I remember that one

in a yeah in a game like that what do you say about the person who's eh who has to chase

well I think they were only too glad to you know run hard and

did you say you're on if it was their turn to (interruption) you know

oh yes did say you're on aye

yes yes eh and what did you used to say when you wanted to call a halt in a game for some reason you know if you eh did you used to cross your fingers and say

ah eh squish or squash or something can't remember

skinchers

skinchers I knew it was an s (laughter) yes skinchers (laughter) (unclear)

skinchers that's going back

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

oh yes glass allies

aye yes

marbles glass allies (laughter)

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

well this is the living room

mm-hm

the kitchenette

yes

the back bedroom the front bedroom

yes

the bathroom and the toilet that's the lot

yes and what about

the hallway

the hallway yes yes yes

mm-hm

eh and ehm you know on a on an old back door to get out of it you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

the snib or the

you call it a snib do you

mm-hm the snib or the latch something like that

yes

you forget these little things

aye you haven't got a back door that you have to do that with now

no you don't turn the knob (unclear) (laughter)

eh and eh again if you had a coal fire what do you call the thing you stand in front of it to get it going

the blazer

ta and what do you call ehm cleaning the plates and things after a meal

washing the dishes

ta eh (pause) could you tell us please eh what sort of things you like to do in your spare time you know like evenings and weekends and so on assuming that you've got any spare time

oh I've got plenty ehm I have a game of bingo round the church

yes

I like a game of bingo I like to be out in the garden as well

oh yes yes

mm-hm

eh

I used to love dancing loved it but eh my husband thinks we're too old (laughter) it's him that's old I could still go but na that's out now

(laughter) aye yes would you say eh how many nights a week do you go out do you usually stay in or go out

mm-hm I go out on a Sunday a Wednesday and a Saturday for sure

yes

then ehm (pause) my husband works shift work now if it's his weekend off we generally have a Sunday or a Monday and then if he's six till two I go out on a Thursday pay night

oh I see yes yes

those are little extras (unclear)

aye eh when when you stay in do you watch television very much

well I watch it uh-huh

yes is there anything ehm would you say it was usually on all the time when you're in

well most of the time uh-huh

yes

we don't have late nights mind never see a late night film never

no

and if there's anything on that eh you know is suggestive my husband puts it straight off it's not allowed on

yes eh is there any anything that you particularly like on television you know what sort of programmes do you like to watch

I liked Henry the Eighth I followed that

oh aye aye

I didn't know a thing about it mind when I was younger

(laughter)

this was my first I think and I think it was the girls you know they were interested and of course we grew interested things like that and eh I like Des O'Connor and Max Bygraves because they've got happy a happy outlook on life somehow (laughter)

(laughter)

so would I if had their money (laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) ehm are there any things that eh you wish you had been able to do but you've never got round to or you've never had the chance to do you know

well I wish I had been educated and been able to talk properly because you can go anywhere where sometimes you go and you're more quiet because you're frightened to speak in case you put your foot in it (laughter)

oh I see yeah eh what do you think ehm what do you think would happen if you won a very large sum of money tomorrow you know if you won the pools or something

well then I would like to buy a nice house

yes

you know

whereabouts

really worth while eeh I don't know my husband wouldn't move from here because it's too near The Seven Stars next door (laughter)

buy The Seven Stars

(laughter) aye do you think ehm do you think it would change your life very much if you won that amount of money

it wouldn't change my life no

no

it's nice to have money but eh I could never forget myself I would still be the same

aye would you say that you were fairly eh contented with your life as it is at the moment you know

well to a certain extent mm-hm

you can't think of sort of loads of things that you would want to do w w w

no not really no

eh (pause) eh these are just eh a few questions about your opinions on eh some ordinary things eh what do you think that parents should do when their children misbehave you know how do you (pause) treat your children

well I think when they're little a smack doesn't do them any harm and let them know they're doing wrong

yes yes would that be sort of fairly fairly frequently then

as long as they were doing wrong they would get a smack mm-hm

yes and eh what about you know a young person of say sixteen or so what sort of control do you think their parents should have over them

well you should be able to talk to them you know

aye

I know I talk to my daughter now you know let her know what I don't approve of and sometimes she disagrees but I just let her know

aye uh-huh would do you think you would want to eh control things like what time they came in of a night time

well I think if you can trust them it's all right but not too late

uh-huh yeah mm eh this is eh a question you don't have to answer if you don't want because because some people don't ehm which way do you vote do you tell people

well I don't know I don't know what to say there (laughter) I don't think it really eh matters nowadays who you vote for I have voted mind you know but eh mainly Labour you know but once this is what happened to me once there was a gentleman came to the door and he said have you put your vote in I said no and he says come on I'll take you up I knew this person wasn't Labour (unclear) the area he was (unclear) and when I got up I hadn't the heart to vote Labour

(laughter) aye

so I got wrong off my husband (laughter)

yes aye

eeh I says (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear) (pause) eh so do you ehm but you do normally vote Labour I mean you

mm-hm yes

eh why do you think that you always vote that way is it because

just because my parents did that's all

yes yes do you ehm do you think there's really very much difference between political parties or not much

I think they're proper catty they're like children

yes

now they are I mean I mean one's no better than the other now I don't think so

yes ehm would you say that you ehm you usually vote on all occasions I mean do you vote in local government elections for instance as well

yes mm-hm

yes pretty regular voter yes (pause) ehm what do you think about eh the way the present government are running the country

oh I think it's terrible I I mean I'm poor now but my my goodness we'll nev never get a chance when they're in they're getting worse cost of living's going up and up and up and they're not doing anything about it

eh now if we could go on to talk for a bit about the thing that we are most interested in that's the way you talk and so on what you think about the way people talk eh firstly do you think that you ever change the way you speak according to the company you're in or any other circumstances

well I try in a little way I know I can't keep up to it you know

aye

but I try my best not to go you know below

y yeah what eh what sort of voice would you say you were speaking in at the moment would you say this (interruption) was more or less normal for you

just ordinary normal voice

yes do you think ehm do you think (interruption)

because you seem a normal person (laughter)

thank you (laughter) I am complimented ehm do you think you've got a have you got any sort of broader accent than this or

well I can forget myself (interruption) you know (unclear)

you think you can go broader than this

yes

aye

but I think when you have children you try for them to be better which we have done with our children they can talk properly

aye

I say properly it's properly to me you know when you hear some kids talk

aye yes eh you would normally ehm correct your children for (interruption) talking in a very broad Tyneside accent

yes oh yes I don't like it and they never have done it

aye

mm never have done I mean they can talk much nicer than I do but I'm glad for them I mean eh we didn't get the opportunity you know with it

aye yes do you eh do you d disapprove on the whole of people talking in a Tyneside accent

oh well I think sometimes it eh seems to lower their character to me it does

mm-hm (pause) that would be I mean but you don't object to the way well I mean the way you talk presumably as well

oh no I mean eh my myself I think I'm just ordinary but there is some very slang which I would say they could better theirselves

uh-huh yes mm eh do you think that eh if somebody talks like you you know if you meet somebody for the first time and say and they talk very like you would would you think you were more likely to get on with them you know do you feel closer to them if they talk like you

well I think so uh-huh

yes yes mm eh you know the way that ehm (pause) say the way the newsreaders speak on television when they're reading out the news

mm-hm

eh do you approve of that way of speech you know (interruption) do you like it

oh yes I'd love to speak like them (unclear) be great

yes do you think it would be a good idea if everybody talked like that

yes mm-hm I think it's really great

you wouldn't miss local accents (interruption) at all

no

oh mm eh do you know anybody yourself by the way who talks like that

well I have a niece and eh she had elocution and she's a real nice talker

uh-huh yes mm you don't think (interruption)

and I I like to hear it you know when you can talk properly like that

yeah you don't eh you don't ever have the impression for instance that people who talk like that are putting it on

no not unless you know they're putting it on (interruption) (laughter)

(laughter) yes

(laughter) that's the difference isn't it I mean there's some nice people that they just talk like that normally

mm-hm

it's all right but these people suppose like myself and then they add a bit edge on then I would know and I wouldn't like it (laughter)

yes aye but it's all right if you've had elocution lessons and you've

aye if you've really been brought up to it

mm-hm yes ehm this might strike you as a a vagueish sort of question ehm what sort of things do you think you can tell about somebody from the way they talk you know do you ever guess things about people from

oh I think so yes I mean some people boast all the time and you know straight away that's not the one for me more or less

I was thinking more of just just from their pronunciation you know just from the way they speak as opposed to what they say

mm-hm eeh I don't know

do you think you can can you usually tell you know people who are rather upper class for instance do you feel that you can spot them from their speech

oh I think so yes mm-hm

eh what would you say eh about my accent

just ordinary nothing eh elaborate like you know

would you say I came from Gateshead

well you say we say 'Gatesid' and you say 'Gateshead' you know

Gateshead

there's that little difference

aye yeah that's true

I mean eh if you like to be posh you say 'Gateshead' but we say 'Gatesid' you know what I mean

I never noticed that one yeah but eh I mean eh so you find it hard to tell whether I come from Gateshead or not

course you've just told us you do come from Gateshead

that's true yes (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear)

that's right yes ehm (pause) when you are ehm in other parts of the country can people usually tell that you come from Tyneside

I haven't been in other parts of the c I haven't been very far just up I think Northumberland I've been to Yorkshire you know Filey Butlins I think that's the furthest I've (interruption) been

that's the furthest you've travelled (interruption) from here

I've never had an opportunity

eh ehm you know do people from other parts of Tyneside ever know that you come from Gateshead or do you yourself ever think that you can tell people who come from Newcastle

I don't think there's that much difference really Newcastle and Gateshead

mm not a bit

no I don't think so probably no

mm ehm (pause) would you like to read that list of words for us please fairly fairly quickly straight down

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

ta eh

should have been happy Harry (laughter)

not happy Mary (laughter)

aye eh now eh I'm going to read out a list of words for each one I would just like to know eh firstly whether you're familiar with it and secondly whether you would use it you know they're all fairly local words but

like what do you mean if you're familiar with it ehm

well there might be some eh that you know what they mean but you wouldn't actually use them yourself

oh yes like eh some people use a big word where others use a simple word is that what you mean

well yes but these are all eh these are all local you know

mm-hm yes

local Tyneside words that you might use eh aside for beside do you say it's just aside the fire

aside for beside did you say

mm

I would say beside

beside yeah eh bairn

child

a little bairn do you use it

never use bairn

do you not

no never have done

ehm bait

I've used bait now it's lunch since I got two daughters (laughter) but I've used bait a lot (laughter)

aye (laughter) bonny

uh-huh bonny

eh bray

like when you bray a child

mm-hm (laughter)

I think I've always said I'll give you a hiding

aye eh bullets

what

bullets

oh aye (laughter) sweets (laughter) I never said bullets not I mean when I was younger probably but not now

not now yes eh clamming

common

clamming

uh-huh I use common

no clamming

oh clamming

uh-huh

no I just say I'm hungry

mm-hm yeah boody

boody

aye

no when I was little I used boody

aye

looking for boodies in the back lanes

yes coin coin a corner

oh no I say (interruption) turn

no you say turn cree

cree

mm

like a hen cree

yes

what else is there besides a he a hut like

well just huts and all sorts pigeon cree (laughter)

I think it was cree I think I used cree

(unclear) eh fettle

no I don't use that

don't use it no eh gully

gully the knife

aye

no

you're familiar with it but you don't use it

no no well I think eh my mother was more for gully and things like that what you're saying

eh howk

no

no definitely not eh lowe

loud

lowe a flame or a light

no light

no ehm mense be more to your mense to get some work done

never used it

no do do you know it do are you familiar with it

na

no eh parky

parky

yes

mm-hm she's (interruption) parky

fussy about your food

mm

varnigh

farm

varnigh

oh varnigh

aye

barely like I don't use it but I know it

mell

mell

aye

what's mell

for a hammer

no never used it (laughter)

ehm knool to be knooled

to be knooled down like

yes

mm I know it but I don't (interruption) use it

you don't use it

no

eh now eh more or less on the same lines I'm going to read out a list of sentences and ehm for each one I would just like to know whether it sounds all right to you you know whether it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstances arose you know what I mean

mm

eh so the trouble is that some people insist on sort of harking back to their schooldays and correcting all of these in terms of you know what they were taught at school as being

uh-huh

good grammar like but I'm I'm just interested in you know whether you (interruption) think you could s whether you think you could say it now mm (interruption)

(interruption) what you're (unclear) (interruption) mm-hm

ehm were you wakened last night when I came in

oh yes I often say that

yes

mm-hm

eh I was still a bed when he called this morning

mm-hm yes

ehm he never gave us any

mm-hm yes

yeah eh do you not go there very often

uh-huh

yeah ehm they're useless them

oh not I don't say that very often no

don't think so no eh me and John went to the races on Saturday

no John and I

mm eh I might could manage it

yes uh-huh

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

no I don't

you don't think so

na

eh it's ower big to get through there

no

no eh you know my cousin that her husband died

yes uh-huh

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

uh-huh (interruption) yes

yes eh I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

it's all right you know but I don't think eh

you'd say the son would you

mm-hm

eh they go to the pictures of a Sunday

uh-huh yes I would say that

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

I don't think so no

no eh these ones are pretty big to them others

yes

ehm here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

mm-hm

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

yes

yes ehm (pause) (unclear) ehm would you mind stop talking

no

no

I don't think so

you don't think so eh do you want a cup of tea making

I would say do you want a cup of tea made

aye yes right do you know him that used to work on the railways

yes

yeah eh he happened a nasty accident

mm-hm

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

yes

mm eh I wanted for to talk to you about it

repeat that

I wanted for to talk to you about it

no

no mm ehm when did it happen you

when did it happen

when did it happen you

no

no eh I've got money belonging him

uh-huh

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

well I don't know I haven't used it (laughter)

eh it's just the so as I can see bit do you think you could say so as I can see

so uh-huh something like that

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

mm-hm yes

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

uh-huh

mm we've been waiting of a bus

yes

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

mm-hm

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

well mm-hm

yes eh there was all these bottles of beer what we had brought

now if my husband was there he would say yes (laughter)

(laughter) would he what we had brought

yes I think that's what we would say

aye mm eh many people were there there

uh-huh yes

ehm where did you get it at

yes

mm eh never mind I'll manage but

mm-hm

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

uh-huh

yes eh me and George is going to the town today

na

no eh Jack didn't think much to the race

no

no mm all the caravan sites are good and I've stayed on them nearly all

no I don't think so

no ehm they'd not seen it

they'd not seen it

yes

mm-hm

that all right mm it's far too long this

mm-hm

yeah eh how's your wife and family then

uh-huh

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

yes

ehm what is it he does for a living

uh-huh

mm eh he wants his wages paid immediately

yes

yeah just light the fire on will you

just light the fire on

uh-huh

we haven't got a fire to light on now (laughter)

no but you could light this one on couldn't you

we just turn it on

turn it on or light it

turn it we don't have to light it you see

(laughter) eh I'll clout yous both in a minute

no

no

na

eh how much have they offered we

how much what

have they offered we

mm-hm

yeah eh pass us one of them spanners

yes

yes I've broke a plate I'm afraid

I wouldn't say I'm afraid I would just say I broke a plate

(laughter) all right (laughter) eh I come this morning but you weren't in

yeah

mm-hm eh he done it all right

mm-hm

yeah I had forgetten to buy the onions

often (laughter) I often forget

(laughter) yes but you would say I had forgetten

yes

eh he give us a pound for doing it

uh-huh

yeah eh we had went to the coast for the day

repeat that again

we had went to the coast for the day

no I don't think I would say that

no would you say we had gone

mm-hm

eh I seen Albert on Tuesday

yes

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

yes

yeah eh that's what happens when you be naughty

yes

yeah I'll probably see him a Saturday

mm-hm I wish I was (laughter)

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

uh-huh

yeah eh you've letten him get away

no

no ehm my mother's keep coming in to see us

yes

yeah eh we'll sharp get this done

mm-hm

yeah eh he's as Tyneside as what I am

yes

yeah eh you used to sweep the floor and us used to wash the dishes

uh-huh

yes mm eh nearly at the end eh could you give us ehm the opposite of I'll be going there this week

you'll not be going there this week

thanks and again the opposite of he's got some

he hasn't any

ta the opposite of he's seen that picture

he hasn't seen the picture

ta the opposite of you're working late tonight

ehm you're not working tonight

ta eh the opposite of I gave him one

I didn't give him any

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

could I have a match please

ta and eh could you finish off this sentence eh I couldn't get it done yesterday but I'll do it

today

thanks that's it that's the lot ta

ooh that's not so bad (unclear)

why do you not like the idea of people listening to you

I just once heard ehm my voice on the tape recorder eeh and I nearly died do you know when you used to watch Bobby Thompson years ago on here on the Geordie programme

I think he still gets around as far as (interruption)

he's never on the telly though

no he's on the (unclear)

eeh I mean you've got to laugh at him but he was what you called a real Geordie well I didn't think I was a real Geordie until I went on one of those (unclear) I didn't know it was on I nearly died when I heard myself (laughter)

aye (unclear)

as my husband says to me when I use the phone he'd say you sound like a henwife now some people use the phone and they sound no different you know course it's my husband's job using the phone you know I suppose (pause) as he says you've got to talk properly

aye when yes that's when yeah some people use the phone they sound very posh

uh-huh they do well he does he sounds much different on the phone to what he is in here talking to me

aye

I remember the first time I phoned him up I come off the phone laughing (unclear) (laughter) (unclear) bye bye and all the rest of it (unclear) well he's so posh and I like hearing that stuff by that's funny and when he come home I says you don't talk like that to me at home and he says oh you've got to be like that you don't know who's you know

who's on the other end yeah (laughter)

(unclear) well I think Wearside's just as bad as eh Tyneside really

aye it's fairly different isn't it (interruption) localized

it's much different but ehm in the sense that it's a dialect

oh yeah

you know I think they're bet

yes

mm-hm

I think it's better it's not as bad as Tyneside

you don't think so

no

I'm sure people in s I I I would think people in Sunderland probably think the opposite you know

well I worked with a lot of girls from Boldon when I worked at Pelaw and they had funny sayings you know like colour they said that funny 'coola'

colour (unclear)

you know and 'spone' spoon

spoon moon

things like that there was a shop opposite Lucy's we said they said 'Loosy's' (unclear) I didn't think it was as bad as Tyneside I mean the really broad Tyneside

I had a cousin came to our house once and we had a friend and she was broad Tyneside

mm

now she said she couldn't understand a word that he said and he she he couldn't understand her you s (laughter) but I (unclear)

are you finished now do you just go (interruption)

no I'll go I'll go and try and get another one (unclear)

the next one

because it's you know I mean I've got to come up a long way like from Rectory Road where I live now so