Community Voices: Ayr

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Younger speakers

Bethany: Have you seen any clowns?
Interviewer: No.
Bethany: I-- I want to see a clown.
Interviewer: I don't thank you very much. But in--
Shannon: The craze seems to have died down.
Bethany: I know.
Interviewer: Mhm?
Shannon: It seems to have died down.
Bethany: I'm pretty sure it was for the 'It' movie, like, it makes sense if it was.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Shannon: What movie?
Bethany: The-- you know 'It' movie, it's the one with the clown.
Shannon: No.
Bethany: Oh my God, it's, like, famous.
Interviewer: It was just supposed to be, like--
Bethany: It's like they're re-enact-- they're remaking it for next year and it's like-- it has a clown in it so I think this whole hype has been about that, like, it's all been like-- But then, people have, like, just joined in on it anyway.

Older speakers

Bertie: I can remember, eh, eh, in Amsterdam, in the site we're in, we took a-- there was a couple of friends with us actually, they had their own caravan. And she went in this morning into the shop and she asked the-- the man if they had any broon breid.
Liz: Broon breid.
Bertie: And he said "I thought you said you were Scots?" She says "so I am." He says "well, you just spoke-- that's Dutch."
Liz: Dutch as well.
Bertie: If what she was wanting was brown bread and she said "broon bread-- broon breid". That's Dan-- that's Dutch.
Liz: Mhm.
Bertie: You see?
Interviewer: Oh, I didn't know that.
Liz: But it's also Scots. Mhm.
Bertie: See it is-- the-- there's-- as a-- as I say, there's quite a lot of words actually that
Liz: Just the same.
Bertie: have come from eh, from-- not only-- well, from eh--
Liz: Well we were invaded by them from the North into Scotland
Bertie: Aye, we were invaded by the Scandinavians and--
Liz: donkey's years ago.