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Family Relationships
LYNNIE: Chavvies is children. I wouldn’t use it. But common people would! LAUGHTER I can’t stand the word!
JODIE: What did you, like, kind of, what word did you have for your mum and your dad back then?
LYNNIE: Just mum and dad.
KAREN: Mum and Dad,
JODIE: What about you? What do you call your mum and dad?
PETER: To me mates, me ma and me da.
JODIE: What about yourself?
STEPHEN: Me ma and me ah’feller
JODIE: Why that?
STEPHEN: I don’t know, cos he’s an old man, he’s me ah’feller. It’s just backslang isn’t it? Instead of old, old man, it’s ah’feller.
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PETER: Your brother. Your kid. Your kid.
JODIE: What about, let’s go on to some of the other words. You were saying about, obviously you’ve got mother, what about grandmother and grandfather? What would you call your grandmother and your grandfather?
PETER: Me nan and me granddad.
STEPHEN: Me nan and me granddad
KAREN: Me nan and me granddad.
LYNNIE: Me nan and me gran.
JODIE: So it’s not really much of a change but when it kind of comes to the mum and dad then there’s a little bit of leeway.
LYNNIE: We used to call me granddad, gran didn’t we?
KAREN: Or gramps.
LYNNIE: Gramps.? And that was it like but we just called him gran because it was shorter. It was easier.
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