Friends from Dunbar in Lothian talk about language and old traditions, such as a fishermen wearing a gold earring to pay for their own burial, if they were drowned at sea.
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The group discuss words for baby or children. They explain how different terms are used as a child grows up and that a child's behaviour can influence what s/he is called. A child could be a brat, a bairn, kid or toddler.
Kenneth Ainslie
Kenneth remembers the 'ugly' - a hat worn by women who worked in the fields and were made by his mother.
Gordon Easingwood
Gordon remembers he used to call all of his relatives either aunty or uncle out of respect. When he left school, he was allowed to drop the title.
Long description of interview: The group might be described as working class. We met in Gordon Easingwood's living room. Gordon and Andrew were the most vocal contributors and Colin was relatively quiet. They enjoyed discussing local history, the fishing community and words for drinking.
Women talk 'posher': Across the world in almost every language studied, females use more 'prestige', 'standard' forms of language. The exception is extreme Arabic societies where women do not participate in public life.
