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!

Being both a snob and the daughter of an English teacher , I am trying and failing to train ds not to succumb to "how" instead of "why" idionsyncracy of Glaswegian

whats with the humphy face idiosyncrasies and nuances make language fun and unique.thats why its always eye opener to go some place else and hear the dialect

id hate homogenised pasteurised language and enunciation

i love accents and regional variations

prettybird, I had a 4yo mindee for a while who was in they "why?" stage, except he kept asking "how?".

I explained to him that what he really was meaning was "why" and when he didn't really get it, I started answering his "how" questions literally.

He pretty quickly got the hang of asking "why" instead of "how"?

When my mum comes to visit I give her a shopping list:

square sausage
scotch pies (KILLIE PIES!!!)
Red Cola (one glass and I can gut the house in 20 minutes)
Plain Bread
Bridies (terrible heartburn but worth it)

We always say Glesga, were does Glasgae come from? And I never heard of weegies til fairly recently either.

what about 'keek'? not sure of the spelling

dafty

kensitas club ciggies- never seen them south of the border

does anyone else say mochett for dirty and moger for untidy?

JustHavering - how no a messages list?
I'd forgotten 'how no'! Still say 'how', though. And dh has laughed at me for heel of the loaf.

He's from Lancashire though, so we have to meemaw.
But for a bit of true inter-racial harmony, we have to have a piece to put us on.

Is that keek as in "no keeking now", or "sure ah wis covered in keek"?

We used to say "sure ah am" a lot, but it seemed to die out. Or was that 'cos I went to a posh secondary where they laughed at me for saying amn't and bet (for "I bet you at tennis yesterday"). Actually I think we used to say something between sure and so? Anyone remember that?

And letters in windows for coal deliveries?

I've not long ago said 'mochett wee clart' to the small boy who was clattered in sharn from head to toe the cowshed. He was making pies.

JustHavering - add tattie scones to that list and its the same as mine!

Does nobody say awful rather than awfully as in "its awful wet ootside".

Ooh, and my all time favourite, in frequent use, is clype. Or klype or klipe or clipe, who knows? As in "ya wee clype, clypin' on yer wee sister like that".

Did anyone else call the bin-men scaffies.

What do you call that fat bottom'lip' that bairns do when things are not going their way?

In the Highlands, it is called a 'boos or petted lip"

deste- I've been calling the scaffies much worse as they are rare as hen's teeth round here...

A petted lip!

StiffUpperLip it is a messages list! I've been anglised!

sb6699 I always say awfy.

I always say shite never shit.

And a lot of my sentences finish with "an aw" (and all) i.e. I went and forgot to put tattie scones on my messages list an aw.

Now then, my teuchter cousin uses oosy for the bobbly bits on woolly jumpers... and it's in the dictionary would you believe, so she must be right. But is it used anywhere outside of the Western Isles?

Never heard of scaffies.

I think it comes from the word scavengers unless anyone knows differently.

I lived in the W Isles for 10 years and never heard oosy being used in relation to jumpers!

weegiemum - no, but I've spent the last 40 years amongst teuchter (Hearadh) family (my dad's one), and hadn't heard it till about 3 years ago. Where did you live, out of interest?

We always used to refer to binmen as "scaffies".

My favourite word is "trachled"/"trauchled" - it's so descriptive of how a woman laden down with message bags and a couple of bairns feels when she's trudging home to make the tea!