Community Voices: Whalsay

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Younger speakers

Rachel: I love Irn Bru Blue Wkd, everybody hates it. I like the-- the Irn Bru and the red one and the blue. I really like them a' but I love the Irn Bru one.
Sophie: I never had the red, I can mind when I-- we were like 14 and everybody drank Purple Wkd.
Rachel: I dinna like the purple. I can't even mind what the purple actually tastes like.
Sophie: I'm no had it for ages.
Rachel: The lime green ain is kind of --
Sophie: Yeah, is du ever had the ain that's like Las-- I canna mind if it's Las Vegas or Brazil or something.
Rachel: Blush is the good-- oh Brazil, yeah. Oh the kind of-- I ken what ain du's meaning.
Sophie: It's like green. It was-- I don't know.
Rachel: What's the-- were dey a snowball one? No, that's Sourz actually.
Sophie: Sourz.
Rachel: No dey are like a Blue Wkd, like, the Las Vegas, was it no? That's disgusting.

Older speakers

Irene: It was-- it was a good place to grow up in.
Tammy: Yeah.
Irene: Eh, we used to-- I mean we would-- we were bairns, we had nay, of course, technology, we had nay-- we used to play hide and seek, mind, around the corn skroos.
Tammy: Mhm.
Irene: And we used to play Stutty Mutty.
Tammy: Mhm.
Interviewer: What's that?
Irene: Well it likely wis a-- just a kind of a-- hide and seek thing
Tammy: Something the same.
Irene: but it-- it was just we called it Stutty Mutty.
Interviewer: Did it hae any kind of rules to it, or is it--?
Irene: Well, somebody hided-- had to hide deir eyes
Tammy: Mhm.
Irene: and then-- eh, mind, you, um, you would hide you and then dey would look for you and "one, two, three, Stutty Mutty you're out", they would see you and then dey would run back, dey had-- special place wharr dey had to stand and hide deir eyes and then if dey saw you, dey would run back dere and dey had to touch the place.