Geordie Phonology

I’ve seen me dig fifty, sixty yards at, you know

from there we move up into the West End of Newcastle

see also head etc. below

there was a, an oil tank, I think it was, installed around the back

see also have etc. below

uh, we used to sit on top of the helmet and put our frock over the top and turn the handle

and at the top of this little footpath which led to the yard there used to be the bus-stop

see also master etc. below

but we had mosques, not purpose-built mosques; we've always had, like, places to, to worship, but this was a, a purpose-built mosque

and, uh, when my mother was a little lassie that was her job to gan away and fetch the cows in for milking at night-time

off, salt, cough, austere

I don't think the top come off properly

your muscles would pump up, you know and you

see also one etc. and among etc. below

uhm, just up from us are four, uhm, council run emergency housing, and they’re blocks of flats

they didn’t want me in a gang, unless I was, I had to be really good and prove I was as good as them if not better

see also words ending orthographically in <-ook> below

no, the, the, the peat, it was easy to ignite, but it burnt away quick, so you had to have a good supply of peats

there was these big trees

you were the chaff laddie to start with — that was the dirtiest job on the thresher, was the chaff laddie, there’s no doubt about that

and the first pint didn't touch the sides, you know, because you were thirsty

rather, half

so you really you can’t appreciate how, how, uh, you know, when you see poor people, you know, how, how they are, how they are feeling

see also father etc. below

so we didn’t, we, we didn't actually starve, because we could always go down the allotments and help ourselves

cork, door, board, war

the corn coming out one end and the chaff and the straw coming out the other

see also words starting orthographically with <wa-> below

and then I realised and I thought, ‘Crikey, the people who are in here!’

see also <al-> + consonant and words starting orthographically with <wa-> below

well, as I say, one big living room, two bedrooms

you’ve been through it, but not, and I'll say, ‘Not as bad as yous’

and of course when you got the chance you weren’t far away from the coast; it didn’t take, you know, them days it took you longer than it does today

and I set the pace, and uh, it was, it was great

both daughters had left home

see also over and polysyllabic words ending orthographically in <-old> and <-ow> below

I always had the fear that I wasn't ganning to be working, because that was always on the back of your mind: that you were ganning to be on the dole

everybody had a garden where they used to grow their own supplies and most people kept a few hens

and the bus used to come once in the morning and once at night-time

shout, down

I think they've got picnic tables in it and that now

shout, down

when people say, oh there's two-thousand plus or three-thousand plus homeless people in Newcastle

shout, down

so down below it, you know, as you gan up the bank, gan over the little bridge, the church is on the right, there's a house stands there, or is it two houses, is that two cottages?

and there was a big boiler, big pot-boiler where you popped the clothes in and boiled them up

beer, clear, here

up here in the north

my grandson, he, he goes up to the comp. up there

prayers is important in Islam, because it's, uhm, it's one of the Five Pillars of Islam

poor, tour, sure

and it's an honour, I look on it as an honour to feel poor

happy, beautiful, valley, coffee, bodies

the special needs are funny

paper, centre, leisure, colour, doctor, sugar, martyr, zebra

and in the winter your days are shorter

the, the housewife just tipped all the ashes in there

then we got a black-and-white television - which we rented

and then she’d make a nice suet pudding, either apple pudding or blackberry pudding

they come down and, and use the kitchen

so I was allowed to work in the managing director’s office

doesn’t matter how much you’ve got in your pocket

some people kept a rabbit, you know and you could get a rabbit pie and this sort of thing

which was true: I had sausage, black pudding, bacon bones, you know

carrots, little white turnips, beans, peas

there's, uh, that thing called scrapie in sheep, which they said may have started BSE, although I'm not convinced

there was these big trees and we used to play amongst them

if a horse was doing that I think the RSPCA would, they would have something to say about it

did you get caught? why no, because I mean, oh they, they knew who we were, but they never, they never, ever caught we

there used to be a, this would be the good room where anybody that, of any importance that came as a guest would be put - mebbies a, a, a favourite auntie or something like that, or, or mebbies, a, a, a special friend

and my grandfather would load up the sledge with hay

but they were always back at half past ten

‘Oh yes,’ he said, I says, ‘You have had a long run, haven’t you!’

I mean I'm lucky. I've been lucky - dead lucky!

and I mean, you cannot work like that - at the time I didn’t know: I was too, too thick to realise

if I remember rightly, the headmaster, or the headmistress used to live just below there

homeless people in Newcastle

it was amazing – nothing like what you see in 1999, when you’re having your little cruise down the Tyne; nothing like that at all

we got a new gang up there one day

none of the farms had enough men for the thresher, so you helped your neighbours

and about once a week, or whenever it was necessary, uh, the council man would come with his horse and cart

and they would pull the sledge for, oh mebbies about a mile-and-a-half over the back of the hills to where the sheep were

I think I used it for about five weeks while that job went on, cause the school was on holiday for the five or six weeks period

and that’s all your life was

jobs divven’t always last

they called this the granary

they are putting them right and putting troops into them rather than, uh, than just let them fall down, you know

you know how to talk to them

if there was any kind of sleepwalking to be done they would have to pass the farmer and his wife

and, uh, the walls are crumbling now, but they used to be all plastered

I got on the bus with them the other night, you know and, uh

so that’s all the one line of buildings: we’ve got the old house and we’ve got the stable where the horse was and we’ve got the byre

it was all good fun, you could nearly write a book about the threshing days, you could

we cook at the mosque

lots of hooks to, to hang the pans on

they, they built the, the new house in 1961, which looks it’s, like it’s been dropped out of the sky; it doesn’t look natural at all, you know

usually took about a week, you know, one day to do the washing and another day to do the ironing and

follow the blue star

and they’re all, all of a similar sort of, uh, sort of thing: uh, it was one room; usually very high windows