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!

defenently agree wi you hen.even though you talk mince

erm.. it is an accent. Everyone has one. Don't you?

I mean if we can let people from the South of Englandf say "cah" instead of "car"..

yes i do thanks for asking i have a galloway irish accent and sound like a true shit kicker (as i've already said!)

Glaswegians say EVERYTHING wrong - but god it's a fucking ace city. Bit of and odd place to turn up in as an english person called Tim though.

god i bet it is

The main one I've noticed since we pitched up here (4 years ago, I'm Scottish, dh Irish, kids verrrrrry scottish!) is that instead of "going to the toilet" out kids now "do the toilet"

E.g. ds (7) runs up the stairs shouting "I need to do the toilet!"

Do what to the toilet?

(well, he usually needs to pee in it, to be honest!)

I lived in Perth (Scotland) in my childhood, Edinburgh as a student and afterwards (but for a year in Glasgow to do my PGCE - reckoned if I could teach in Glasgow I could teach anywhere - TRUE!) and then foro 10 years in the Outer Hebrides before relocating to Glasgow 4 years ago.

I LOVE it, I have no desire to live anywhere else. Its an amazing place to live, even when I can hardly understand what some people say to me. I flipping LOVE living here (see nn for details!)

i miss the sea, but apart from that i wouldn't live anywhere else either. only in glasgow can you see kids using an old matteress as a sledge when it was snowing. i chuckled about that for days!

I'm Glaswegian, and it's funny reading this thread at you all laughing at things that I presumed were normal phrases like 'do the toilet', 'my Christmas' and 'going home to my bed'.

Off course you 'do' the toilet, what else??!!

My Scot hubbie told my DD to "half it in two" the other day (what's wrong with cut it in half?).

When we went to parents evening, her teacher laughed when she heard him speak and said "Now I know why she has a problem with her spelling!". It's 'down' not 'doon'.

DD is also perplexed when he tells her to put a "shed" in her hair (parting).

This is true, weegiemum.

Glasgow is a fantastic city.

DH and the girls are from Edinburgh, but Glasgow has truly grown on us.

We live in Western Scotland, so it's our closest city.

There is no end of terrific stuff to do there and brilliant restaurants.

I only found out a few weeks ago that saying " I slept in" is peculiar to west sctland as well. Apparently everywhere else you oversleep

A lot of those phrases are common in Southern Scotland too. I say "I slept in"

Go to Wolverhampton if you want to hear the English language being truly raped.

We often 'sleep in' too (in Central Scotland)

It's funny hearing these phrases from someone else though, I say most of them regularly and don't think of them being Scottish thing.

I am Glaswegian, from a very Glaswegian family (my dad sounds like Billy Conolly) but my accent is a bit mixed now as I spent a lot of my childhood in Aberdeen then lived in the highlands. So i'm always hard to place and have some cracking words and phrases from all over Scotland because of it.

Butterball I do agree we need to do a bit of slagging off the Aberdonians, i'm married to one and told him at Christmas the first time any of the dc's says sunty we're moving far far away.

I say 'slept in' as well.

Can you weegies give me ideas of great places to visit in Glasgow then? I've only been a handful of times and end up wanting to cry and leave after 10 minutes of trying to negotiate the roads and try to find parking!

See I say slept in and never realised particalarly that it was a scottish thing because it is normal to me I find this quite funny hearing how odd these sound to other people.

Ha ha ha .. . this thread has really made me laugh! I'm a scot living in Englandshire, with an english dh and english wee ones. I nip to the shops for a few messages, swither about whether to do (or not do) something, get ready for my bed last thing at night, and give the wee ones into trouble when they're misbehaving.

Sometimes I am asked, "Why do you talk funny, mummy?" .. I miss Scotland!

I 'sleep in' and I'm from Newcastle - TBH I thought everyone slept in, it never occurred to me it's a regional thing.

I also 'go through' to another town if I'm visiting somewhere close by.

Peculiar phrasal verbs are one of the reasons why foreigners find English so frustrating to learn.

Scotsbird where are you from in Scotland?
I give the dc's into trouble as well, I also go for my messages and do a lot of swithering

What do people that don't say slept in say instead to make the same point?

For those Scottish amongst you who haven't seen this already - read below and weep!!

Sky are rumoured to be close to launching their own dedicated Scottish Channel later this month, and have previewed what they are intending to broadcast

Here's a selection of the listed programmes:

Sky Wan

9am News and whair it's pishin doon

9.30am How claty is yer hoose?
This week the ladies pay a visit to a man whose wife shot the craw only three days ago to find the entire hoose under five inches of stoor and the cludgy honkin o' pish

10am The Mags Hainey Show
Early mornin chat show hosted by big Mags Hainey in which neds and Sengas settle their petty differences by screaming obscenities and attacking each other with furniture for the amusement of the viewing public. This morning's episode is entitled "Whair's ma effin hoosekeepin money disappeared tae?"

12.30pm News and whair it's pishin doon

1pm Neeburs
Soap opera set in the village of Kinghorn in Fife . This week Archie accuses Morag of being in league with Lucifer and has her burned at the stake

2pm Film
Angels wi Manky Coupons

4pm Tam the Tank Engine
Tam goes aff the rails and the Fat Controller is chuffed tae bits

4.15pm Boab the Builder
Reality show where Boab is investigated by Building Standards and the Inland Revenue

6pm News and whair it's pishin doon

7pm Doaktir Whae
In this week's episode the Scottish time traveller takes the TARDIS back tae 1966 and breks Geoff Hurst's legs wae a sonic Glesca screwdriver

7.30pm Torn Faced Cockney Wankers
Eastenders wi' subtitles. In tonight's episode, Pauline gets her jotters fae the steamie while the rest o' the cast stoat aboot wi' faces the length o' Leith Walk

9pm Fitba Player's Burds
Drama surrounding the players of fourth division Auchtermuchty Rovers and their off-pitch antics. This week Boaby is worried that the club is facing relegation while Moira is gettin podgered, baw-deep from the Aberfeldy Academicals goalie

10pm News and whair it's pishin doon

12.30am Merrit Wi Weans
Re-make of the popular American sit-com 'Married With Children.' In this week's episode, Al sits in front o' the telly scratchin his baws while Meg is still chokin on her Nat King Cole

1.30am The Beechgrove Back-Green
The boys plans tae dae up a gairdin in Niddrie are scuppered when local neds eff off wi the wheelbarra to rob the off-licence.

2.15am Close Doon

thats funny

There are so many great Scottish words, like baffies and teuch (sp?).

I hate going to chip shop in England, it's not the same, no fish suppers and where's the broon sauce? I like my chips swimming in it

My dh just read that over my shoulder and the Aberdonian couldn't understand half of it hahahaha he can talk.

DH also had no idea what I wanted the first time I asked if he's "seen ma baffies??"

DH has just reminded me that I told him to stop howking at his pants the other night

i love news for the neds this thread is v funny