Community Voices: Canisbay

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Younger speakers

Ashley: Och, I'm no interested in Halloween.
Sophie: It's just 'cause you don't like dressing up.
Ashley: I know, well-- I dunno. I like it, like, for the bairns but I dinna like it if I-- if I dinna know who somebody is and they're bloody freaking me oot. I'll take a panic attack. I dinna like the thought.
Sophie: I love it.
Ashley: No, no keen.

Older speakers

Elspeth: Mhm. And what-- what's her stages next in her learning?
Louise: Well she's, eh, goes til, eh, what's it? Eh, college in Thurso.
Elspeth: College in Thurso, oh right.
Louise: But, eh, they do mostly work at home. 'Cause they can get it on the-- what is that thing?
Elspeth: Oh do it on their internet.
Louise: Aye. Mhm.
Elspeth: Aye.
Louise: They can do it better there because they're-- what do you call it? Eh, she says that when you're in the class, they're a big class, you dinna get the same attention.