As soon as people would speak to you they would say-- they would either say "which part of Ireland are you from?" or they would say, like, "which island are you from?" Like, North of Scotland. And you'd say, "No, no. I'm from Stranraer" and they'd be "where?" Em, yeah, so it would often get mixed up with Irish or Islands.
Interviewer:
Do they say what sort of islands? The Hebrides or anything? I mean, that kind of islands?
Claire:
No. No, no. No, it would just be like-- nobody ever, sort of, narrowed it down.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Claire:
Just, em, yeah. Way up north, so.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Sophie:
Yeah.
Claire:
It's funny.
Interviewer:
That's interesting.
Claire:
Mhm. Even, em, differences in accents, like, between-- so, like, my boyfriend's from Newtonstewart and he'll always make fun of the way that we say "ten". No,
Sophie:
Yeah. Like--
Claire:
we say, "tent".
Interviewer:
Tent.
Claire:
And-- and he'll be-- "you mean "tent"."
Sophie:
And he'll say "tent".
Claire:
And even just that--
Sophie:
There's a good few words that we say different, yeah.
Claire:
Mhm.
Interviewer:
Can you think of any?
Claire:
Um.
Sophie:
Um.
Claire:
What do we say?
Sophie:
Um, my-- mhm. My friend is-- calls like-- and she just lives five minutes away. She calls her-- the middle of your hair, I'll call that a parting but she calls it a shade.
Claire:
Never heard of that.
Sophie:
Um.
Claire:
What about ways that we pronounce things?
Interviewer:
That's amazing. I hadn't heard that one before.
Claire:
No, neither have I.
Sophie:
And, like, em, I would-- see if I'm saying, like, "Irn Bru"? I would say "Irn" but she would say "Iron".
Claire:
"Iron".
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Sophie:
There's a good few words that we say differently and she only lives, like, five minutes away.
Older speakers
Isabelle:
And oor hoose-- And then we went to the sports and you come back, the hoose was just as you left it.
Patricia:
Aye.
Isabelle:
What a mess, but-- Aye, ken she wanted to kill them.
Patricia:
But she couldnae help it, no.
Isabelle:
No, couldnae help it. You had the mess.
Patricia:
Aye.
Isabelle:
Eh.
Patricia:
'Cause she'd a' the-- there was a' the weans, all of youse.
Interviewer:
Aye.
Isabelle:
Aye, and then the next day you were up and doon into the sports field because the men would be there drinking and they'd be lying aboot the place and you aie found money.
Patricia:
And there could be shrapnel. Mhm. Aye.
Isabelle:
You aie found money and you were oot there and it was a race to see wha would find aught and you kenned where they were actually lying aboot the place.
Patricia:
Aye, so you kenned to look for them. 'Cause the bar and everything was doon there wasn't it?
Isabelle:
So you kenned-- aye.
Interviewer:
So was that in the field down here?
Patricia:
Mhm.
Isabelle:
Aye, in the field doon there.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Isabelle:
Aye, see they would be coming oot the Judges Keep.
Interviewer:
Mhm. Aye, yeah.
Patricia:
Aye, and just across the bridge.
Isabelle:
And just cross the wee-- kind of-- so they always built that wee bridge
Interviewer:
Mhm. Wee bridge. Mhm.
Isabelle:
and they went over there and you always found money
Patricia:
Aye, that's right.
Isabelle:
sitting there.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Isabelle:
So, first thing whenever you wakened the day after the sports was doon into the field before anybody else would be there afore you.
