Cultural differences Scotland and England

[CauleyMacGlochlin]

So surprised to see on a recent thread that in England secondary school pupils are often not allowed out of school for lunch until 6th form, which Google tells me means 16-18. I'm gobsmacked. I've never heard of anything like this in Scotland and I've lived all over the country (grew up in Glasgow and moved around in adulthood)

I also recently discovered that English school pupils can't leave education at 16. They have to stay in education til 18 unless they have an apprenticeship.

Got me thinking about cultural differences between the countries that I've maybe been oblivious all this time. Any others?

People put coins in prams in England too. Silver coins usually.

Nah that’s complete bollocks.

You say big light.

Eh? I pronounce it as nougat, with a silent t. No one I know says nugget.

I say ‘watch’ for careful or for my DH to get out of my way! (Excuse me to strangers!!)

@MaggieBroonofGlebeSt

Eh? I pronounce it as nougat, with a silent t. No one I know says nugget.

You ask for a "double noo-gah" from the van?

😂

I’m Scottish, lived in a few different towns in the west and in Glasgow city centre. I’ve never heard anyone say nugget. Everyone says nougat (without the T) even as children when ordering from the ice cream van.

www.facebook.com/CapocciManIceCream/videos/375942170722490/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

This is how you pronounce a double or single "nugget"

Absolutely cracking up that people are out there saying noo-gah when they buy an ice cream.

Definitely nugget! Double nugget/single nugget…mibbe in Hyndland they say ‘noogah’ I can’t imagine a wean in Barmulloch saying ‘noogah!’

I don't know why. It's the correct pronunciation.

If I heard anyone saying nugget, I'd just assume they were really thick.

I'm in my 40s, from Edinburgh. When I go to Luca's ice cream shop and get the wafers the staff all pronounce it nougat as well.

I'm south lanarkshire and I say gutties and nugget. And I'm certainly not really thick!

Well I grew up in a posh part of Glasgow and we always asked for a double or single nugget.😁

I don't know why. It's the correct pronunciation.

Is it pish.

Luca's in Edinburgh must be putting on some airs. It's absolutely called a double nugget and always has been.

Also just asked dh who grew up on East of Scotland and he says nugget as well.

Of course it is. Maybe those who say "noo-gah" also get their cars "val-ayed"

I think if I started called nougat nugget my French husband would divorce me tbf. 😆

We also used to be kept in in secondary school at lunch. I don't know if that was a decision by our headteacher (I think there was a bit of trouble with us and another 'rival' school) but it definitely did happen even in my day. Only sixth years were allowed out.

That explains it @MaggieBroonofGlebeSt

Your poor school never got a chance to get out to the van at lunch time so you never learnt how to speak proper when ordering your ice cream.

Never too late to change. Hit out with nugget at Luca's and let us know how you get on.

I've just watched that ice cream video - what is that?! I've never seen anything like it! Looks delicious.

Is the stuff covered in chocolate nougat like this, or something else? If it is, is it the soft stuff or hard??

I'm confused by that one too! I never get my car cleaned by anyone else but it is valay, not valett? What's wrong with pronouncing words correctly? It's like the Scots on here are proud of saying stuff wrong?
Weird. No wonder British people are so atrocious at languages.

@MaggieBroonofGlebeSt

How do you say "cooperative"?

😂😂😂 ‘the co!’

@MaggieBroonofGlebeSt

By the way I speak three languages other than English. One of them being French!

But I'm Scottish and grew up speaking a certain way. I'm not changing that now because someone thinks I'm thick.

Luca’s staff with be thoroughly bilingual and unfazed by nuggety noogah.

I think this is where regional differences kick in again. DH will say noo-gah - he grew up in England but his mum is the World’s Most Scottish Woman and if you tried to take her crown she’d fight you to the death. It would not be pretty. However, if you said “noo-gah” in a crowded room where I grew up, silence would descend so quickly as to cause whiplash and the collective side eye be so extreme everyone would be left with a permanent squint.

When I was wee my mum asked what I wanted to be when I grew up.

My response:

To work in the Co!

Noo-gah 🤣🤣🤣 surely no