to wonder why glaswegians cant say definately properly?

[littlemissfixit]

why do they say defenently? its definately!! Does it make anyone else cringe when they here it? When i here a weegie say it, my whole body shudders!

I remember the rag man.

Haven't read quite the whole thread, but I'm a great one for planking things... actually isn't great one a Glasgwegianism itself? And it's a skelf in this house, not a splinter. And clegs hang around the compost sometimes...

And where's all this "weegie" business come from? We were never weegies when I was wee...

My big pet hate though is when you tell people you're from Glasgow, they say "ah Glasgae!" and think they're funny, when Glaswegians have always called it Glesga. Hmmph.

But I live in Lincs now, where they take pack-ups to school for lunch and we suffer with thunder bugs in the summer... which remind me of clappy-doos for some reason (though clearly they have nothing in common).

Love this thread!
ex-G44 and G75.

Weegies is from the Wegian part of Glasgwegian. I think.

Oh FimBow, I realised that! I meant, when did Glaswegian's start getting called that? Is it some Chewin' the Fat reference (known as Tuna Fart in our house), or somesuch?

And I think the fundamental proof of whether you're Glaswegian or not is whether you know who Sydney Divine is (was?).... have struggled to explain him to dh.

Glaswegians have been known as Weegies for years now. I don't think it's a new term.

I've never actually been called a Weegie but I've known of the term as long as I can remember.

Got to love those Weegies and their grating/lovely accents (depending on context, tone etc!). I'm an Edinburgher so of course I'm slightly superior

I used to live in the weege and the banter was superb. Even down to the daft little things like 'taking a good tan' and 'who's first please' make me smile now.

Where else can you get a big grin and a 'haw therr doll' of some toothless old newspaper vendor. I love it - saying that, I couldny live there, likes.

LMAO@slightly superior.

"Weegie" was always Edinburgh slang for a Glasgwegian - as in " Weegie soap dodger".

Glad my innate snobbery made you smile

My best pal has married an Ayrshire man and may I say, his voice is divine - and not in the Sydney sense of the word.

He just has a gentle 'burr' of a west coast accent. Everything he says sounds insightful, charismatic or interesting, even when he's relating the footie scores.

What a wonderful antidote to the screeching sales assistants of Buchanan Street.

LetThere... wonder if your memory is shorter than mine (I mean you're younger!)... I can actually remember the train station at St Enoch, the overline station I mean (though only just)... and of course proper ships on the Clyde...

What's Glaswegian about who's first please?
Ok, that's me...

Not to say that some Edinburghers don't let the side down of course. I've never be too keen on the use of the word 'cunt' to mean 'person'.

It just doesn't sound polite, ya cunt ye.

I can't remember any of those things but I've always been familiar with 'Weegie'.

I've never thought of 'Who's first please?' as an exclusively Glaswegian term either. I thought it was UK wide.

StiffUpperHip - I too can (just) remember those things - and I have only seen the term used frequently on here.

Just talking to dh (now he can remember the trolleybuses!) and he says that although the expression has been around for yonks, it is more something that the Edinburgh/East Coast folk would use as a derogatory term for Glaswegians - who would produdly describe themselves by the full name.

I'd never heard the word Weegie until I moved to Edinburgh 20 odd years ago.

I am pretty sure it's derogatory, and not everyone from Glasgow is a Weegie. Just the neds....

I may be wrong though

I just thought Weegie was short for Glaswegian, nothing insulting meant. Oooo, have I been insulting those Glasgow folks for years? Not that I mind.

"Also is scorry (sp?) a northeast word? I think it means seagulls but Im not sure..."
I am from the North East but I have never heard that term. Seagulls are seagulls or gulls or vermin.

thanks deste. not sure why I thought it was from up that way, id be delighted if anyone could enlighten me as to where it is from though

My husband (who is from N. Ireland) realised he was finallly acclimatising to Scottish life when he told his mother that is was "pishing down rain" in Glasgow.

He'll not be allowed to forget that in a hurry!

Oh, lobby press - I haven't heard that for years - brings back memories of my gran's tenement flat (which she never called a flat - always a house - with a bunker). Any kind of dwelling in Scotland is a house - in England a house is a particular kind of property.

Yes to "heels" - ends of the loaf of bread.

"Weegie" is a little bit of a derogatory term when said by an east-coaster.

Clegs, yes (horse flies?) and corn beasties (thunder flies in the midlands).

Still thinking about mealy puddings (mmmmmm).

You just have to watch Taysiders In Space for some good old scottish "banter".

Is using 'how' instead of 'why' a scottish thing or do other places use that?

"How come?" or "But how?" when why would have made more sense!

lol a bog hoor o'ah spaceship and phasers tae malky

he's deid. deid stone deid.nae pulse or nuffin (imagine saying that at work ...)

so so funny.love chewin the fat

what a great glasgow thread

How for Why is quite Glaswegian I think - I certainly never used it as a child growing up in the East but my thoroughly weegie kids all do it!

ALong with "how no?" for "why not?"

I love the spaceship thing.
"Yev git hee-haw chance" - my uncle and grandpa used to say "hee-haw" for "none" when I was wee!

see growing up i thought all folk said how=why
and how no=why not

apparently not