I feel so bad every time that, like, if my granny and grampa come round she, like, goes for them as well. You're like "oh my god." Lol. Oh it's gonna come lol coming up, like, I don't actually say 'lol'. You know how when you say it sarcastically and you're like "lol" and then it actually becomes part of, like, your vocabulary and this person's gonna be thinking that's what they talk about.
Kirsty:
You're that kind of person.
Sophie:
Mhm.
Interviewer:
Lol. It's like me when I started, like, 'pure', like, we'd be taking the rip out of neds like "ah pure." Now I actually say it all the time.
Sophie:
Yeah.
Interviewer:
God, please let me stop.
Sophie:
I know, I thought I got, like, a neddier voice when I started working at [place of work] and stuff I'll be like "oh, wee man, over here" and now I'm reading that stuff and I'm like "you wouldnae know what to do" so, like, I thought I was like-- see wi, like-- You think when you're from Largs you're kind of posh and then you go to uni and then everyone else is like "you're so neddy."
Kirsty:
Yeah, like, they think we're neddy.
Older speakers
William:
He was always known as a smoker, a-- a kind of a cool, calm, collected man, whatnot. Thinker and all that kind of stuff, um, and my grandfather-- the thing I used to remember is he would buy his tobacco in his wee packs and he'd this wee wooden thing where he'd break up the tobacco and then every so often he'd say "you wanna smell that" and the smell from that - this is not used tobacco, this is the new stuff - was absolutely fantastic. And I was quite young at the time, I wasn't interested in the smoking, it was just the smell of the stuff. But he was a great smoker as well. You don't see so many people nowadays smoking cigars, though.
