The participants were asked to describe how they spoke in their own words.
How do you describe your accent: "North Walian accent."
Have there been other influences on the way you speak: Not Given
Do you have skills in languages other than English?: Yes
Other languages: English, Welsh
SIAN: That's what we'd do at school, everyone had loads of them, and we were all there going through them then, as a crowd. SIAN T: You'd have about 200. SIAN MORRIS: Some would charge us 10p. Yes! At school. INTERVIEWER: Where did you get them in the first place? SIAN MORRIS: Well, just crisps, there was, there were pogs or tazos, but tazos were the popular ones. Here that is. And everyone ate Wotsits like crazy at school, in the middle of break, under the table in maths: "got a pog!" ANN: Sifian, if you see the Wotsits going down in the shop, you'll know that Sian is playing Togs! SIAN MORRIS: There were some Star Wars ones too. SIAN T: And football ones, I still have them, in those football books, swapping them for ten pence and things.
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.
