England 19

Listen to England 19, a 39-year-old woman from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, in northeast England. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 39

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1960

PLACE OF BIRTH: Benwell, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: white

OCCUPATION: wardrobe supervisor

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject also lived in Newmarket, Suffolk.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Katerina Moraitis

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/11/1999

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Hello, I’m from Newcastle.  I was born in Benwell; I’ve moved to Worksop when I was 5.  I’ve moved away to work a few times, but I’ve always moved back.  Quite happy here, I think I’ll be here the rest of me life; I love it.  Um, I work at the University of Northumbria at the minute; ah, I’ve been here three years, and I love it.  I’m hoping to be here for a long time to come.  I went to Scotland for me holidays this year.  Went on the east coast, which isn’t very nice, but it was a bargain.  It was in the sale; that’s the only [unclear] reason I went.  And, uh, I’m saving up for me holidays next year ‘cause I’m hoping to go to America, ‘cause I found a cheap one, which was in the sale last year at Easter, so hopefully it’ll be in this year again this year for this Easter, so I haven’t got the brochure yet, that comes out in September, but it’s still not out yet.  I keep going in every week.  So, hopefully I’ll get that soon, and I’ll get booked up for there.  So that’ll be a bit better than the east coast of Scotland.  We’ll see.  In America, it’s staying in a place called Old Mystic Side, New York, and, um, you go to quite a few places: Boston, Cape Cod, which I’ve always wanted to go up to.  It’s a tourist by hour [unclear] only ‘cause I’m not very adventurous and I like to have everything done for it.  I don’t like to to venture out much, especially to America.  Never been abroad before; farthest I’ve been is Ireland, which is, I suppose it’s abroad, but not very far.  So I’m looking forward to that.  My daughter is 14 year old at the minute, and she’s just chosen her options at school, and, um, she just chose them; didn’t have any advice off anybody, and then she’s just suddenly decided that she’s going to choose something else so she’s changed it.  Went to the teacher and says, “Could I go into art instead of business studies?”  He says, “Ah yes, I’ve got a naughty boy in business studies.  I’ll swap him and that’ll be great.”  So it’s all right for him; he’s getting the good one into art, so he’s quite happy but she’s had no advice, and she’s, I’m just really, I mean I, I want her be happy, and I want her to do what she likes, and I’m sure she’ll enjoy art ‘cause it’s an easy option; and I think that’s what’s at the bottom of it really.  Business studies must seem like too much hard work, and I think it’s a bit of shame that she’s been able to just change it without any discussion whatsoever.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Dave Beals

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/02/2008

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