Carnegie Leisure Centre workers in Dunfermline discuss the mining heritage of their dialect and how, they believe, it is being diluted by influences from Edinburgh.
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Relationship of interviewees: Colleagues
Where: Dunfermline, Fife
Language of interview: Scots
Voice clip 1
The group discuss words for grandad and the mining community tradition of calling grandfather 'dye'. This tradition seems to cross generations.
Maurice Hoey
Maurice, playing in a seven-asides match, remembers 'skelping' a goalpost after he let a goal through that he wanted to save.
Peter Wordie
Peter describes the appearance of a 'ned', complete with tracksuit, gold jewellery, white trainers and cap.
Long description of interview: We met in a small office in the Carnegie Leisure Centre and James, the centre manager, was most vocal. The younger, male members of the group came to life when they shared sports stories and spoke natural, fluent Scots when they forgot they were being 'interviewed'.
