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Younger speakers
| Alex: |
So. |
| Interviewer: |
What did you do this weekend? |
| Elliot: |
Oh, I'm getting neck cramp. Eh, nothing. Just went to the Huntley and |
| Interviewer: |
Yeah? |
| Alex: |
I went to Banchory. |
| Elliot: |
got hooned. |
| Alex: |
We're like-- came back and we're like "oh, we're not going out this weekend." I'm going out in town this weekend. Just like oh save and whatever. |
| Interviewer: |
What, this weekend coming? |
| Alex: |
Yeah. And then, like, I got sort of, like, a pint in or something we ended up like "yeah, let's go out." |
| Elliot: |
I didn't even finish my pint and I was already telling people I was going out. On the way to football I-- |
| Alex: |
I was telling everyone I'm not going out and then like, it was like half way through my pint |
| Elliot: |
We were contrasting. |
| Alex: |
yeah and I was like "ah, actually I'm going out." |
| Elliot: |
I was te- yeah I was saying to folk that on the way to football I was just gyming in Darrick and then |
| Alex: |
Yeah. |
| Elliot: |
got a pint deep and-- |
| Alex: |
Tables turned. |
| Elliot: |
laldi with it. |
Older speakers
| Elizabeth: |
Fann we used to ging with the-- the Monday club, we used to ging awa' for a weekend |
| Jannette: |
Oh aye, different places. |
| Elizabeth: |
and she said to me "will you bring back a thimble to me?" |
| Jannette: |
Aye. |
| Elizabeth: |
'Cause she has hundreds of them and a'. |
| Jannette: |
I ken. |
| Elizabeth: |
No. |
| Jannette: |
What a thimbles. |
| Elizabeth: |
Aye. Fae a' different-- and then if anybody was awa' on holiday they would bring me back a thimble. |
| Jannette: |
Aye. Oh god there's an affa thimbles eh? |
| Elizabeth: |
Mhm. There's naybody wants them. |
| Jannette: |
Naybody ever wanted thimbles. |
| Interviewer: |
I remember when we were-- when-- when I was really little and we'd go away, and we'd always-- we'd always have to buy a thimble to bring back. |
| Elizabeth: |
Aye. |
| Jannette: |
Oh aye. |
| Interviewer: |
It's funny. |
| Elizabeth: |
Aye. |
| Jannette: |
You've some lot of them anyway. |