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Relationship of interviewees: The owner of the cafe, and four of the workers
Where: Pwllheli, Gwynedd
Language of interview: Welsh
Voice clip 1 The group remember the games they used to play at school, with some contrast between the games recalled by the older members and by the younger women.
Eleri Davies Eleri confesses she gets confused if she has to have a long conversation in English.
Sian, School student Sian talks about schoolday crazes for collecting and swapping snack trinkets.
Sifian Vaughan Pritchard, Co-owner of a café Sifian talks about how she sometimes forgets the English word for something when she's at work.
Long description of interview: The group are all women and all work at Caffi Gwalia, the local cafe. One of the speakers is the co-owner. The discussion takes place in the cafe after the last shift of the day. All the speakers contribute to a lively discussion.
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.
