Community Voices: Whitburn

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Younger speakers

Rachel: Would you ever think of living abroad?
Lewis: Eh, I don't like the architecure.
Rachel: You don't like the architecture?
Interviewer: In every city other than Whitburn.
Rachel: Whitburn.
Lewis: Well, Barcelona's actually alright but see, like,
Rachel: Alright?
Lewis: um--
Rachel: Barcelona's alright? It's no quite as good as Whitburn but it's alright.
Lewis: but see, like, see-- see, like,
Interviewer: Not up there.
Lewis: well, with Magaluf and Ibiza and that, like, see the-- just the whole set up of the shops looks, just, shady.
Interviewer: I hated Magaluf.
Lewis: Same, I absolutely--
Interviewer: It was the worst week of my life.
Lewis: See all these folk saying "oh I can't wait to go back, wish I was back at--" Liars.

Older speakers

Gina: So there's-- there a lot of lovely hooses along there now.
Gerry: Aye
Gina: Uhuh. Aye. But they've no got any drying greens. The hooses all-- all got let with the cooncil wi tumble dryers.
Gerry: Right.
Gina: They're nay--
Gerry: Nay--
Gina: There's parking, you can go roond the back, go in the school front gates
Gerry: Aye.
Gina: and you can go roond the back and there a parking area for the cars, nay garages
Gerry: No.
Gina: but there's parking areas. Eh nay-- nay room for a car-- your-- your clathes rope or anything like that
Gerry: Right, right.
Gina: but you've got tumble dryers. Aye.
Interviewer: In my flat, cause I live in a flat, we don't have really, like, a proper garden or that and we don't have a tumble dryer. We just have to shove everything on the clothes horse, like, every time. It takes ages to dry.
Gerry: Aye, it will dae.
Gina: Aye, no, I like getting my clathes out the rope, right enough.
Gerry: Better getting a wee electric yin, you know?