you know I wanted to eh (pause) to find out what different kinds of speech you know different accents there are in eh

(unclear)

in eh (pause) Newcastle and Gateshead you know and see how they're spread around and what what kind of people talk the different different accent (unclear)

oh I see

so we thought the best way to do it was just to eh really take a great big sample of everybody you know so as to include as many different sorts of people as we could

I see what you mean

just go and record them all you know and ehm (pause) so I'm planning to do about a hundred and fifty of these eh in Gateshead you see

mm-hm

and when I've done that we should know something about eh you know h how much eh all the different kinds of speech that there are

mm-hm

and ehm (pause) so the interview really is just a matter of (pause) (unclear) you know getting a bit of (pause) sample of your ordinary conversation (interruption) (unclear)

I see (unclear)

you know and just eh talk talk like you normally do you know ehm (pause) first of all can you tell us where you were born eh

in this street (laughter)

were you

yes (laughter)

in this (unclear) was it in this house or

no no just across the road number twenty six

oh I see aye and eh where whereabouts else have you lived like have you always just lived in this area

oh no I've been all over the world

oh I see aye yes yeah (pause) whereabouts eh how long did you live there like where you were born

eh I lived there until I was (pause) let me see eh (pause) oh nineteen twenty six (pause) when the general strike was on

yeah

eh my father was supposed to keep me then you know when they had the means test you know

yeah

oh I couldn't stand for that so I just there was an emigration scheme on for Australia so I just (interruption) went in for that went to Australia (interruption)

(interruption) aye (interruption) oh I see aye

came back again in nineteen twenty nine stowed away to get back

(laughter)

and eh (pause) police were after us for stowing away so (pause) a sergeant in the police said to me he says the best (unclear) do is join the army so I joined the army and (pause) went abroad again

oh I see yeah

came back from the army nineteen thirty four (pause) eh (pause) got a job in Yorkshire (pause) Makefields Spencers wireworks

(unclear)

stayed there a while came back home (pause) got another job down there again

(unclear)

and worked for different people while I was up here you know

yeah

and eh (pause) got married nineteen thirty six (pause) worked at the British Ropes until I was called up as a reservist

(unclear)

about a month before the war just made a casual ta ta to the missus and thinking I was going to come back after a month you know

yeah

no the war started and I was shipped straight away in France

yeah

and eh (pause) came back from France like after Dunkirk you know (unclear) Dunkirk

yes

eh (pause) got posted different places Dover Cardiff putting guns in on the docks you know

yeah

and that kind of jobs for to do (pause) terrible that and they wanted volunteers on twelve pound like for to go abroad

yeah

for a African do you know

yeah

went to Africa (pause) Sicily Italy Austria

(unclear)

until the war finished came back home and I've had a quiet life since

(laughter) yeah but you've lived up here have you (unclear) since you came back from the war

aye lived in this house

aye oh you've eh y you've been around a lot more than eh a lot more than most people like you know

(laughter)

you must have spent almost as much time away from Tyneside as you have here

practically I have aye

yeah yeah what eh do you do you like living up here like I mean do you think it's eh

oh I wouldn't like to move from here

would you not

no

no

if I did move from here it would have to be over to (unclear) the west country

oh you mean down eh Devon or somewhere like that

no no eh (pause) Westmoreland (interruption) Cumberland

oh I see yeah yes

I think it's lovely over there

oh aye it's nice there have you spent (unclear) some time over there

well with relations over there

I see aye

well I had poor soul he's dead now

yeah yeah

but eh (pause) I would like to live over there if I had to move from here

yes yeah what eh what about this area you know this street and that do you get on very well with the people in the street (interruption) is it a very neighbourly kind of place is it

well (pause) they're nearly all strangers to me now you know (interruption) they coming and going coming and going

(interruption) are they (interruption) yeah yeah

there's only about (pause) three very old neighbours you know

yes (unclear)

but I very rarely see them now they're much older than me they'll be getting on for seventy something you know

yeah yeah (pause) do you think ehm in all your travels do you have you found that eh people from Tyneside are eh very different from people in other parts of the country you know in other parts of the world like

well eh (pause) I think the Tynesider is more open than anybody else

(unclear)

he is free to make friends with anybody you know

yeah yeah

different parts of the world I've met Geordies you know oh and as soon as you hear them speak and as soon as th they hear me speak you know they want to be (unclear)

yes you always get on better with them

yes

(unclear) yes yeah

there was one part in Australia (pause) Newcastle Kurri Kurri and all round that and well anywhere in New South Wales actually

yeah

there's quite a lot of Geordies you know because they went out there for to work in the pits and that you know

yeah

well I worked in one place a wire mill in eh I am a wire drawer by trade you know

yes aye

and I worked in this eh this wire mill in Newcastle itself

yeah

and eh oh they were nearly all Geordies

(laughter) (unclear) (laughter)

living there you know (pause) I had a good time there but the work got bad again I had to get on the move again and

yeah aye do you think eh if if you could live absolutely anywhere you wanted you know I mean like if you had bags of money like and you you (unclear) to go out where where where do you think you would live you know

Malta

would you aye you've been there in the army have you

oh aye was about four years there

yeah aye

great (interruption) little island that

you like it aye

but I don't know what it's like now you know since all this (pause) carry on (unclear) and (interruption) all that you know

oh aye yes it's I suppose it's changed a lot yeah yeah eh whereabouts did your parents come from were they ehm Tyneside people

eh my mother was born in Jarrow

aye

and my father was born in eh (pause) little place in Yorkshire a wire where eh most of the wire mills are eh (pause) Brighouse

yeah yeh and eh what did eh what was your father's occupation (unclear)

he was a wire drawer

was he (interruption) oh I see aye

I served my time with him at and my brothers

yeah yes (pause) and ehm now how old are you now eh

sixty five

mm and eh (pause) on what basis do you occupy this house you know do you own it or rent it or

oh no just rent it

you rent it (unclear) ehm and eh are you a are you married or

oh yes (interruption) mm-hm two sons

yes yeah have you (unclear) how old are they now

(unclear) he's about (pause) oh dear (pause) nineteen thirty seven he was born

yeah

and the other one was born nineteen thirty nine

yeah whereabouts are they now are they still up here or

yes eh (NAME) he's got three children living in Beacon Lough

yes

the other one I haven't seen for five years

(laughter) yeah

but we heard that he was living over in eh (pause) oh some hospital they say my my other my oldest son says he married a nurse (unclear) Shotley Bridge

(unclear) I see aye yeah

Shotley Bridge he's living over there somewhere (unclear)

yes yeah

(unclear) he's a (unclear) he's was born a wandering kind of a lad him he's had caravan and a car and he used to (pause) to travel around the country you know

yeah

getting jobs here jobs there

(unclear) (pause) eh where did your wife come from is she from from Gateshead

she's from Gateshead yeah but her her parents come from (pause) up the west over the Tyne somewhere up there

mm ehm now eh you're you're retired now aren't you

yes

you said aye and eh what eh what job were you doing before you retired there

well I I was made redundant about twelve years ago at my own trade wire drawer at the British Ropes (pause) and I went from there (pause) into a job demolition work

yeah

from there (pause) eh (pause) on the buildings

aye

from there (pause) the British Engines and that was where I finished up

where's wh where's the British Engines like

eh Saint Peter's (interruption) in Newcastle

oh I see yes aye yeah yeah

that was where I finished up

yeah

well I'm I'm back at the British Ropes again now on a (pause) a little bit part time job

are you (interruption) oh I see I see

aye eh two nights a week Saturday night and Sunday night (interruption) just a watchman you know

yeah (pause) oh I see aye (unclear)

well it helps the bit pension out

yeah yeah which eh which job did you like best you know of all the ones you've done like

of all of them I've done

(unclear)

farming in Australia

did you (laughter)

aye it was nice to get out there and (pause) get up in the morning maybes a twelve horse team maybe a ten horse team and

yes

get away and (pause) oh you can set away of a morning there and (unclear) especially in the wheat belt

yes

set away in the morning (pause) it'll be dinnertime before you get round the paddock once

aye

(unclear) the size of them you know

(unclear)

(unclear)

(unclear) it's a lot different from working in a factory

oh (pause) great life

(laughter) yeah yeah

I often wish I'd stayed out there (unclear)

yes (pause) what about your own trade like the wire drawing (interruption) did you used to what sort of job was that

well that's (pause) well that was a good job for good money you know but eh (pause) these new inventions cut it out you see at one time you used to have to make wor own tools and all that

aye

then they started to get dies well that (interruption) spoiled our trade you know

I see (pause) what eh what what exactly did you have to do like what (interruption) (unclear)

make the wires make the wire strands you know

yeah starting starting from you know I mean (interruption) (unclear)

just rods just rods rough rods you know

oh I see aye yeah yeah

just drawing and drawing and drawing you know down until (pause) you get the exact size that's the size that you want it to

drawing I see (pause) but it's all done automatic now is it

practically mm-hm

yeah yeah

with the exception of shaped wire you get shaped wire that's still got to be done by hand you know

(unclear) the British did you did you say that you did that down at the British Ropes they have a wire (interruption) (unclear)

yes (pause) they make wire into (unclear) (pause) but eh they found it uneconomic to run (pause) so they closed the wire drawing department down and and just made made the ropes there now (interruption) you know

I see aye yeah yeah (pause) eh (pause) how old were you when you left school

eh fourteen

yeah

that was when you had to (unclear) like

yes yeah yeah eh were you eh were you glad to leave school like at the time you know did you (interruption)

no I was pretty good scholar (interruption) I I li I liked school mm mm-hm

(interruption) aye used to like sch (interruption) liked school did you aye

and I liked the sport in it as well you know

aye yeah whereabouts did you go to school eh

Shipcote school

down here

yes

uh-huh yes (pause) and eh did you have any eh further education after you left school were you (interruption) I mean night classes or (interruption)

(interruption) only in the army (interruption) no just the army

no (unclear)

I tried for I've got my second class (unclear) without any difficulty at all (pause) I couldn't get my first (pause) (unclear)

aye (unclear) (pause) eh and eh would you say you know looking back on your education like would you say it had been very much use to you like in your life since

oh yes

since you left school you you value it pretty highly do you

yes mm-hm

yes

but I mean if you're educated to a certain extent you can you're not afraid to meet people you know

aye

well if you're not educated well you're you're frightened to get into a a decent company or

yeah uh-huh

oh yes I found it to my advantage quite a lot

mm (pause) and eh what eh do you think education's very important for kids now you know would you recommend kids these days

well eh kiddies now they seem different they don't seem to (pause) well it's a (unclear) rather difficult question that (pause) I've got t I've got two grandbairns there now they're sensible kiddies you know

aye

now they are (pause) keen to get on but a lot of kiddies you see now they just let their hair grow and they (unclear) they don't care about this that or the other you know and they're

yeah

they just don't care whether they're educated or whether they're not you know now

yeah that's true

that's my opinion like

yeah yeah do you think it's very different from when you went to school (interruption) you know (unclear)

oh much different

(unclear)

I mean a teacher said well said a word to the kiddies and that was it

(unclear)

they daresn't do no other but now they stand up and fight with teachers you know

(laughter) (unclear) (pause) eh do you think eh (pause) do you think school should be very important in teaching kids you know like the difference between right and wrong and that do you think they should (interruption) (unclear) yeah

oh yes aye

do you think (unclear) would you say they were as important as parents or more important or less important (interruption) you know (unclear) I mean

well (pause) it's the parents' job to see (pause) to discipline really you know

yeah

but eh (pause) as I say when I was a kiddie the schoolmaster or the schoolteacher (pause) their word was law

yeah

but it doesn't seem to be now

no (pause) (unclear) eh (pause) (unclear) (pause) ehm whereabouts eh were you living you know when you were fairly young yourself like when you were say between five and twelve were you living here

(unclear) (interruption) the same street yes

I see yeah yeah was it eh was it a very good place to live you know from your point of view as a kid (interruption) like (unclear) did you have a good time here (interruption)

(interruption) oh yes (interruption) those days this was like a select area

yeah uh-huh

around here you know then

yeah compared with down Gateshead like

oh down Gateshead and that well the that was the still the slums then you know

yeah yes

(unclear) when you lived up here well you were (laughter) flash

I see aye yeah (laughter) yeah what eh what kinds of things did you used to eh get up to you know when you were a kid here like (interruption) (unclear)

oh well (pause) I went in for a lot of sport (unclear) (interruption) I've al always have done (unclear) (interruption)

(interruption) did you (interruption) yeah

I used to follow boxing I I like boxing

aye (pause) you used to box yourself did you

oh yes

yes yeah

professional and amateur

(unclear)

but eh (pause) I liked football when I was in Malta I went in for practically every sport there was with the exception of tennis I was never (interruption) much of a hand at tennis (pause) tried it a few times but (pause) (interruption) went in for

(interruption) uh-huh (laughter) (interruption) yeah

full stroke for the army crew

yeah yeah

played football for the regiment (pause) cricket for the regiment that was a flash do then because you (unclear) play the army officers then you see

aye aye

but I was a good bowler and (pause) nine times out of ten I was selected

yeah yes (interruption) (unclear)

(unclear)

(unclear) you kept all these things up after well after you left school obviously

oh yes mm-hm

what about when you left the army did you have any chance for to do

well I was a bit too old then you know

yes yeah

I had a few fights like down in the south (pause) after (unclear) nineteen thirty four when I came back from the army

yeah

a bloke fixed us up with two or three fights there but (pause) I couldn't stay there I was given (interruption) three hundred you know (interruption)

(interruption) aye aye (interruption) I see aye they professional fights were they

mm-hm

(unclear)

I had quite a work well I used to get a fight (pause) when I was knocking about in Australia well I was in every state I went right round Australia

aye

in the four years I was there you know

mm

well as you're travelling you might come across a place where there might be booths or

yeah

a proper (pause) boxing hall you know

yeah

just make enquiries you get a fight well if you got two or three quid which was very little money then you know

yeah (laughter)

three or four quid you were well paid for a six rounder

yes

for a ten rounder well if you've got about eight or nine quid well you were a rich man

(laughter) great yeah

but they I've got a I used to get a fight that was to help us on my way further on you know

eh hu yeah yes (unclear) eh what eh what kinds of things do you like to do now in your spare time you know (interruption) how you spend your most of your time these days

oh (pause) watching the telly

do you aye

I like to watch the telly

yeah (pause) what about eh the day times do you find the days hard to (interruption) fill in like being retired

oh dear me terrible

is it aye

just sitting here

mm

I sometimes go out and have a drink of beer with the lads I don't drink a great deal you know

no

well I can't afford it anyway

(unclear)

but if I have a few bob to spare I go over to the club

yeah

a game of dominoes you know

which club's that at eh (interruption) Mount Pleasant

there's well there is two they're at Mount Pleasant or (unclear) High Fell you know I use them both

I see yeah yes

I used to play darts and that but (pause) I don't know whether I'm still as good as most of the the club members you know

(laughter)

but (unclear) because I'm older I don't think they

I see (unclear) do you eh would you say you went out more nights than you stay in

oh I'm more in now (interruption) (unclear)

you're more in now are you (unclear) (pause) yeah (pause) and eh what what kinds of things do you like to watch on the television you know

sport (pause) (interruption) first and foremost but eh I like to see see good play (interruption)

(interruption) yeah yeah that makes sense right (interruption) yeah yeah (pause) is it usually on all the time you know when you're (interruption) when you're when you're in

oh yes aye when I'm in

(laughter)

I have to switch it on there just the sound you know

(laughter) yeah yeah what about the radio do you listen to that as well

oh yes uh-huh

do you yeah it's quite good isn't it (interruption) some of the things on the radio like mm mm

yes mm-hm

ehm (pause) if eh if we just go on to talk for a bit about eh the thing we are most interested in like that's the way you talk and that and you know and what you think about it eh firstly do you think eh do you think you ever change the way you talk according to you know the company you're in or any (interruption) circum other circumstances like

oh well you've got to I mean I can talk as broad Geordie as as anybody but

aye

it just depends what company I'm in you know

aye you sometimes don't like I mean you sometimes talk (interruption)

oh when I'm with the lads well it's just wey aye and (unclear) (laughter)

aye yeah

I'm ganning and all this business you know

yeah yeah how eh how would you say you're talking now you know how does this compare with your (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

well I'm just trying to follow you as near as possible you know

(unclear)

you are you're not broad Geordie well I (pause)

I see aye (interruption) (laughter)

I just try to (unclear)

(unclear) (laughter)

(unclear) on the same as you do you know

yeah yeah eh y y you've never eh did you ever change your accent when you were like travelling round the world you know

oh yes well you had to in Australia you know

aye

I mean you couldn't talk broad Geordie with them because they are more like a a Cockney

(unclear) that's true

you know (unclear) didn't (unclear) well

yeah

they wouldn't know what you were saying

yeah but you've eh you're you're pretty well back to being eh ordinary Geordie now like since (interruption) (unclear) since you've come back

oh yeah mm-hm mm-hm aye

(unclear) eh (pause) do you eh do you like to hear people talking in eh in in local accents you know do you like to hear Geordies (interruption) speaking

oh yes mm-hm

aye

when you hear it on the telly (laughter) it sounds funny you know

it is like aye (laughter)

it seems different doesn't it

yeah yes

there was one night there was a a show on and (pause) talking real broad Geordie well my missus says I can hardly make him oot (laughter)

(laughter)

do you know aye and she she she's broad herself (interruption) as well (unclear)

aye it's funny like yeah it just sounds out of place (interruption) (unclear)

it does on the telly aye

mm-hm

and yet if anybody was coming in speaking the same way you would

aye oh yeah yeah

think nothing of it

yeah yeah (pause) eh what about eh you know other eh accents of (unclear) of things and like and let's say c you know Cockney and

oh well (unclear)

Liverpool accents do you like them

no I hate to hear a Welshman speaking

do you

oh aye

oh that's that's funny most people like Welsh like

aye but they sing and

(laughter) aye

I like to hear a Yorkshireman

yeah yeah

I like to hear Harold Wilson speaking

do you (interruption) yeah yeah

mm-hm

he's a sort of yes (interruption) funny Lancashire (laughter) yeah

he's Yorkshire aye maybe Yorkshire Lancashire you know (unclear) it's a mixture

(unclear) yes yeah (pause) did you ever ehm you know when your bairns were young like did you ever used to correct them about the way they spoke you know do you ever (interruption) you know tell them not to say (unclear)

oh aye yes aye mm-hm

you did sometimes (unclear)

oh yes

if they were like very broad

aye you used to try and

(unclear)

now I do with my (unclear) now it's funny that (unclear) funny you said that just yesterday eh (pause) my granddaughter was in (pause) and eh she said something I said you don't say that she said I know but she says I can say it (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter) excellent yeah (pause) aye course kids have to talk very broad when they're with their friends like (interruption) you know I mean got to

that's right aye

yeah yeah (pause) eh you know ehm you know the way the newsreaders talk on the television when they're reading the news out (interruption) you know they're very much correct like well do you how do you react to that do you like to hear that (interruption)

(interruption) mm-hm (interruption) eh aye well it's pretty (pause) plain speaking you know and I (interruption) like to hear plain speaking

aye (pause) yeah aye do you eh do you know anybody yourself who talks like that you know

eh (pause) yes a friend of mine (pause) he's a doorman at High Fell club

(unclear)

very he's self educated you know he he's read a lot

yeah

but he's never travelled but what a nice speaker he is

yeah and you aye and you like to hear it like (unclear)

he just reminds me of a (pause) a man from Dublin I like to hear them (interruption) speaking

oh aye aye

well it's (unclear) that's supposed to be the finest English spoken you know

yes I've I've heard (interruption) that aye

from Dublin whether it is or not I don't know but I like to hear them well that friend of mine he he speaks very much like a a man from Dublin (unclear)

yeah aye

nice to listen to

yeah (pause) eh do you ever ehm do you ever find yourself sort of guessing things about people you know just from their pronunciation like just from the way they talk

oh yes well I can usually pick a man out when I hear them speak you know (interruption) where he's come from or

aye you can tell where he comes from (pause) yeah and what about eh other kinds of things about them is there anything else you can tell about people

I'm a pretty good judge of character

yeah you think you can tell quite a lot of that about that (interruption) from listening to somebody

yes uh-huh

aye and what about things like eh what kind of job he does you know what eh sort of background he's got and things like that do you think you can tell that as well

oh yes mm-hm

mm

I can just see a man after reading the paper (pause) the way he folds it up (pause) you can

uh-huh

I can tell then

(laughter)

some men they they just fold it up any old how you know

aye

I (unclear) mesel well (unclear) that'll you'll do your work just the same as you fold up a paper (unclear)

aye oh I see yeah yeah mm (unclear)

well you had to know I was a I was an engineer in the army you see

yeah

well you had to get to know your your squad or your gun team or whatever

yeah yes yes (unclear)

you had to get to know them you see whether that's

yeah you get used to doing that (interruption) I suppose yeah yeah that's true

mm-hm

ehm what eh what would you say about me from listening to me (pause) speech today you know what what kind of accent would you say I've got

well (pause) (unclear) you're a Geordie

you can tell that aye

yes mm-hm (pause) but eh (pause) it's funny that (laughter) (pause) I could tell straight away you're a Geordie like but as for your character well I haven't talked to you long enough for to

yeah yes (unclear)

to get the character

that true aye well how would you say my my accent compared with yours you know eh

oh you've got a (pause) you sound a better educated man than me

I see aye (pause) eh (unclear) ehm (pause) this is just eh one question that eh we ask people but you don't need to answer it if you don't want because some people don't like eh which way do you vote

oh Labour

do you

mm-hm

yeah and eh (pause) have you always voted the same way

oh yes

yeah (unclear) ehm why why is it you know that that you always vote the same way do you think it's

(unclear) (pause) Conservatives are (unclear) they're (pause) they're more for themselves

aye

first thing they do when they get in is to put their own wages up

that's true yes yeah (pause) do you think eh do you think the Labour party as it is now like do you think it eh really eh looks after the interests of the working man (interruption) properly (unclear)

oh yes (pause) definitely

they definitely do like aye (unclear) (pause) is eh did your was it in the family to vote Labour (interruption) as well like did (unclear) your father would and this kind of thing aye (interruption)

(interruption) oh yes mm my father always voted Labour (interruption) aye we've always voted Labour father and mother

yeah do you usually eh do you usually vote in eh every election that comes up like (interruption) you know like the local elections (interruption) (unclear)

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) well I haven't voted in I didn't vote in this one

did you not

it was a horrible day

oh aye yeah

(unclear) horrible night

yes

and my mi when my missus came in she's working by the way (interruption) she's still working sixty three years of age

yeah (unclear)

and she says are you going to vote I says oh what kind of a night is it she says well look at my coat (laughter)

(laughter) (unclear)

I says no I will not bother it was just (unclear) didn't vote

yeah (unclear) well they won anyway (laughter)

but ninety nine times out of a hundred I vote

(unclear) imagine (unclear) you do yeah eh (pause) well there's just eh one or two things that eh you could do for us could you just eh (pause) read that list of words for us please straight straight down there

just read them all straight off

yeah fast as you like you know

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

ta and now just eh them few a bit more slowly

dry size five jibe tribe wives mine and type

ta (pause) eh now eh (pause) I'm just going read out ehm (pause) some sentences right and for each one I would just like to know if it sounds like eh a normal sort of sentence to you you know that is if it sounds like something you might say if the circumstance arose (interruption) you know what I mean

yes mm-hm

if it's eh just if it sounds okay to you (unclear) eh were you wakened last night when I came in (pause) would you say that

say that again

were you wakened last night when I came in

aye mm-hm

yes yeah ehm I was still a bed when you called this morning

yes that's exact (laughter)

yes eh he never gave us any

aye

yes eh do you not go there very often

mm-hm

that's okay (unclear) eh they're useless them

mm-hm

eh me and John went to the races on Saturday

(laughter) that depends what company I was in

uh-huh yeah

I would say John and I if I was in a (unclear) but yes I'll (interruption) say yes to it

yeah (pause) eh I might could manage it

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

yes eh it's ower big to get through there

aye

yeah eh you know my cousin that her husband died

aye

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

mm-hm

(unclear) eh I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

mm-hm

(unclear) they go to the pictures of a Sunday

(unclear)

(unclear) (pause) I was coming home on the train and if I didn't leave my coat lying on the seat

aye

yeah eh can't he not do that

no I wouldn't

no aye eh here she had left her pram standing outside the shop

aye mm-hm

yeah eh af eh would you mind stop talking

aye

(unclear) ehm do you want a cup of tea making

aye

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

aye

uh-huh eh he happened a nasty accident

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

mm eh I wanted for to talk to you about it

say again

I wanted for to talk to you about it

no (interruption) I don't say that

no mm eh (pause) y you don't like (unclear) do you not

mm-hm

(unclear) eh when did it happen you

mm-hm

yeah (pause) I've got money belonging him

aye

aye eh (pause) could you mind your head so as I can see out the back

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

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

aye

aye eh we've been waiting of a bus

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

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

aye

yeah eh (pause) it wouldn't be no good tomorrow wouldn't it not

no

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

mm-hm

mm eh many people were there there

(unclear)

yeah eh (pause) where did you get it at

(unclear)

yeah eh never mind I'll manage but

aye (unclear)

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

mm-hm

you say no the wonder yeah eh me and George is going to the town today

(unclear)

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

mm-hm

(unclear) eh (pause) eh they'd not seen it

say again

they'd not seen it

aye

yeah (unclear) (pause) it's far too long this

uh-huh

(unclear) ehm (pause) how's your wife and family then

mm-hm

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

aye

mm (pause) eh what is what is it he does for a living

say again

what is it he does for a living

aye

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

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

mm eh how much have they offered we

mm-hm

mm eh pass us one of them spanners

mm-hm

eh I've broke a plate

mm-hm

yeah eh I come this morning but you weren't in

mm-hm

yeah (pause) he done it all right

aye

mm eh I had forgetten to buy the onions

mm-hm

(unclear) eh he give us a pound for doing it

mm-hm

(unclear) eh we had went to the coast for the day

no

no eh I seen Albert on Tuesday

mm-hm

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

mm-hm

yeah eh that's what happens when you be naughty

aye

(unclear) I'll probably see him a Saturday

mm-hm

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

aye

(unclear) you've letten him get away

aye

(unclear) eh my mother's keep coming in to see us

mm-hm

mm eh we'll sharp get this done

mm-hm

yeah eh he's as ty he's as Tyneside as what I am

aye

(unclear) eh (pause) she can't do it can't she not

no I wouldn't say (unclear)

no right ehm and eh now finally just getting a little bit more complicated eh I'm going to say a sentence and I just want you to give us the opposite of it right

mm-hm

ehm (pause) eh (pause) they've seen that picture

they haven't seen that picture

yeah eh (pause) we've finished we dinner

we're just starting

(unclear) ehm (pause) he'd do it for you

he'll not do it for you

(unclear) (pause) ehm he's found it

he's what

he's found it

he's lost it

(laughter) yes that's ehm I'll see you next week

I'll not be seeing you next week

yeah eh he's coming tomorrow

he's not coming tomorrow

yeah ehm (pause) you're working late tonight

you'll not be working late

(unclear)