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Younger speakers
| Gemma: |
So in America, like-- |
| Aaron: |
Oh, here we go. |
| Gemma: |
No, and-- The way we say words. So I used to say "arms", like "arms", right? |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Gemma: |
So they were like "what?" Like, so now it's "arms". Like, I just say "arms". |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Gemma: |
And then there's "girls". Like, we say the "r"s different. |
| Interviewer: |
Things-- |
| Gemma: |
Say girls. |
| Aaron: |
You just missed her. |
| Gemma: |
What's she doing? |
| Aaron: |
She was like going about in a circle on her back. |
| Gemma: |
Right say "girls". Say "girls". |
| Aaron: |
Girls. |
| Gemma: |
Right. |
| Interviewer: |
Girls. |
| Gemma: |
See, we all say it the same but they say-- I can't do it without changing my accent. |
| Aaron: |
"Girls". |
| Gemma: |
They say "girls". |
| Aaron: |
"Girls". |
| Gemma: |
Like "girls". And I was like "I can't change that one." Eh, what else was it? |
| Interviewer: |
"Girls". |
| Gemma: |
World. |
| Interviewer: |
World. |
| Gemma: |
World. |
| Aaron: |
World. |
| Interviewer: |
What do they say? |
| Gemma: |
"World". "World". |
| Aaron: |
I haven't-- they don't pronounce their "r"s though. |
| Interviewer: |
So the-- so I say-- |
| Aaron: |
It's like nae-- nae "r"s. "R"s. "Arms" and all that. |
| Gemma: |
Yeah. |
| Aaron: |
And "girls". "Girls". |
| Gemma: |
Yeah, but we don't pronounce our "t"s. |
| Interviewer: |
Yeah. |
| Aaron: |
How do we no? |
| Interviewer: |
Like, say "letters". |
| Gemma: |
Water. |
| Interviewer: |
Water, letters, mhm. |
| Gemma: |
Yeah. |
| Aaron: |
Aye. Butter. |
| Interviewer: |
Butter, mhm. |
| Gemma: |
Butter. Yeah 'cause I-- I noticed, like, in America, like-- So they didn't have peanut butter 'cause it was, like, a nut free camp |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Gemma: |
so it was like sun butter. And I noticed when I said "sun butter" I was saying it, like, properly. |
| Interviewer: |
Back tracking. |
| Gemma: |
But I probably said-- probably was like when I first got there "where's the butter?" |
| Aaron: |
"Where's the butter, man?" |
Older speakers
| Lawrence: |
Three year ago he says to me "do you drive?" I says "aye." |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Lawrence: |
He says "well, I think you should be thinking about gieing up the driving." |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Lawrence: |
That-- that was then. But see if, but I didnae-- |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Lawrence: |
I think he would have wrote to DLA |
| Delia: |
DVLA. |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. To-- |
| Lawrence: |
you know what I mean, and telt them |
| Interviewer: |
Yeah. |
| Lawrence: |
so I would have had to gie it up, you know. They would have-- |
| Interviewer: |
Aye, better to do it off your own back than being telt to do it, aye. |
| Lawrence: |
He didnae-- |
| Delia: |
Better. |
| Lawrence: |
he didnae-- he just says |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Lawrence: |
he would advise me. Well, when he said that |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Lawrence: |
I drove for another, what, two month? |
| Delia: |
Wasnae even that. |
| Lawrence: |
And then I gied up the car. I said "that's me". |
| Delia: |
'Cause you werenae confident. |
| Lawrence: |
I got-- I got the thing in when I was 70 |
| Interviewer: |
Mhm. |
| Lawrence: |
eh, for to put in for the-- my license again |
| Interviewer: |
Aye. |
| Lawrence: |
and I just tore it up. I never-- I never done it so that was me, I never drove since then. |
