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!

They can't pronounce million either - milyon.

I don't mind it mild. It's the full on, impossible to understand version that gets me. Lovely people though - I'd stick with him.

I say million.

it's an accent, dumbass. anyone not speaking RP will 'mis-pronounce'.

rofl TheCrackFox - have just asked the two glaswegians sitting next to me to say million and they cant. they dont understand that there is a 2nd "i" in the word!

TheCrackFox - I don't think I'm understanding. You mean they say "I" instead of "ee" for the second i, or what? I've never heard that. Otherwise I don't see how else you can pronounce it.

As an English person in Scotland I've always been puzzled by that "my bed" thing too - and also "I want that for my christmas" - eh?

Tis dialect though innit. I'm from yorkshire so I don't have a leg to stand on - we talk all kinds of nonsensical crap there.

Gaelics thanks, think I will, he's great fun and fit with it.

they have just pronounced it "milleyon"

I also had to get used to "fish suppers" and carryouts being alcoholic rather than chinese

I'm English too, and there's loads of Scottish dialect that's really charming. I'm doing my best to pick it up myself. I've lived in Yorkshire too, and yep there's loads of very strange stuff there. Broad versions of any accent/dialect are really difficult if you weren't brought up there.

I used to live in Hull - now there's an accent that everyone can ridicule. Fern curls anyone?

i love the weegies, thought about moving to troon, but i cant as i need my daily weegie fix, its just that 1 word that makes my skin crawl. I've got a shit kicker accent (south west scotland) originally from wigtownshire so i say some odd things but like ken, yin, or my personal favourite...half a deezen not dozen..deezen!

One I really like is "bidey-in" for live-in-lover.

And now I've been here for nearly 15 years I have absorbed and regularly say "outwith" and "does that need washed?"

I love regional accents, mine is just a northern drawl and wish it was more pronounced.

at fledtoscotland

I correct DD when she speaks Glaswegian, we don't even live in Glasgow and it sounds all wrong to me as I'm English.
She mainly rolls her eyes and ignores me!

i say outwith, what's weird about outwith? i like amn't, you don't hear that elsewhere.

I think you'll find it's "Ah'm awa hame tae ma bed". No self respecting weegie would say "I'm away home to my bed" - they'd get a doin' for being English (or a poofter)

Can we start on the Edinbuggers? I think it's only fair.

Morningside or Pilton?

or murnie as... no am murnie! or keeker..black eye, i said boo when my friend said that to me for the 1st time

lol at Paolo's girl and poofters!

Both. They're in Edinburgh after all and are therefore equally intolerable.

Oi - feck off back to the west. Everyone knows we Edinbuggers beat you Weegies every time

outwith is scottish aitch, I never heard it used in England except in v. archaic contexts.