The word on the street in Scotland

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Depending on whom you talk to about Scotland's independence vote on Thursday, the Scottish are either sticking with the United Kingdom or sure to leave.

The opinion polls are no help, either — they're too close to call.

GlobalPost's UK Senior Correspondent Corinne Purtill is there, and asking the locals all about it. Here are some tidbits from their conversations. (You can follow her for more on this on Instagram and Twitter.)

Below, #Yes means a vote in favor of independence, while #BetterTogether means a "No" vote.

Three generations of the Temple-McCarron-Kelly family voting #Yes in Easterhouse, Glasgow.

"These people don't know what they're getting into." — #BetterTogether voter Jordan Morrison, 19.

People singing on their way into the polling station in Glasgow's East End.

"I'd move back in a heartbeat. I just need an opportunity." — Glaswegian Victoria Allison, 34, lives in London and thus can't vote. She took leave from her job as a lawyer to come help with the campaign.

"I wear these to confuse nosy people." — Graeme Campbell, 50. Voted #Yes by post as he's currently living in a homeless shelter and has no fixed address.

"I've waited all my life for this vote." — Ian McCallum, 67. He secretly left a handful of pens in the voting booth because he's worried someone will erase pencil votes.

"I want my children to be independent." — Saffron Grant, 38. "I am independent!" — Esme, 8.

"I was a no voter, because of my pa. Then I heard all the yes campaigning and said, that sounds better than a lot of empty promises." — Caitlin Watterson, right, 16.

"The Scottish public are taking a gamble. Can we afford to? I say no, the younger one says yes." — Glasgow brothers Ross Stewart 30, and Craig Stewart, 34.

"It's just really liberating. There's that passion in the air. This is ours. Let's claim it." — #Yes voter Cyrus Doherty, 36, hairdresser, Glasgow.

"Tomorrow means…" The dad trailed off. "Freedom," the little guy said. — Mark Donaldon Sr, 40, and Jr, 6, in Glasgow.

"I've been voting SNP for the last 40 years, but never in my wildest dreams did I think we were going to get a referendum. I never ever thought I'd see this day." — Rebecca Allison, 64, Glasgow.

George Square, exactly how you might imagined a Wednesday night in Scotland.

"I'm a proud Glaswegian, a proud Scot, and I've never felt more British. Solidarity matters." — Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson Jr. "I instilled all those beliefs in him and I feel exactly the same." — his father, Gordon Matheson Sr.

"I think it will liberate the whole UK. It's a path to a true democracy." — Eddie Clarke, 72, an Englishman who came up to Edinburgh from Bristol to help with the #Yes campaign.

"We were called traitors. There was a lot of shoving, a lot of shouting." — #BetterTogether voter Charles Somerville-Wood, 16, of Helensburgh, just from a #No rally. Today 16- and 17-year-olds are voting for the first time.

"It's a dodgy subject at the moment. We're arguing about it daily." — Carol Murray's voting #Yes, her partner at home is voting #No, in Helensburgh, Scotland. Her son Taylor, 7, says he'd vote Yes.

"You might as well take it from the Scottish corrupt than the English corrupt." — #Yes voter Joseph Campbell, 85, retired welder of Kirkcaldy.

"The sensible types in town are all voting 'No.' It's all the numptys that are voting yes." — #BetterTogether voter Donald Low, harbourmaster, of Pittenweem.

"Regardless of which way the vote goes, Scotland will never, ever be the same." — #Yes campaigner Gavin Loudon, of Lochgelly.

"Scotland is a bunch of tribes. Clans. We can't agree on nothin'. I think Scotland is a country that has to be governed. We're too wild. It's in our genetics." — #BetterTogether voter Andrew Christie, 43, fisherman, of St. Monans.

#Yes voters Fiona and Ian Jamieson of Cowdenbeath in a discussion with undecided shop owner Anita Macdonald, in Lochgelly.

"If we do become independent, what have we got to be exporting?" "I think it's a pure shambles. The union should stay the union. There's still no currency plan." — "No" voters Derek McCausland and Colin McDougall, in New Kirkgate, Leith.

"Unity is strength. Britain can't break up. They're just tiny wee countries." — Ali Zahid, postmaster, in Helensburgh (where the post office is also a mini mart).

"I decided, I'll wear that until the day we get independence." — #Yes Helensburgh organizer Margaret Pollock with her late father's soccer medal. A great advocate for independence, he passed away 12 years ago. Pollock has been campaigning for independence for 40 years.

Peter Kellner, head of pollster YouGov, says he cannot tell reporters which camp is going to win, even if asked four or five different ways.

"Individually, our nations are really embarrassing. Together, we're OK." — Rory Stewart, half-Scot, half-English Tory member of parliament for the border region.