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!

not true re everywhere else you oversleep

LOL @ Notyummy - esp. the weather

this thread is great! my dp was born in England, though has lived in fife for nearly all his life but he still rips me for how i speak, bugger that he is! i say things like baffies too and his all time favourites are 'mulk' (milk) and 'shree' (three). which ds2 has learnt brilliantly!
the kids all have lovely wee Fife accents too, though ds1 has a lovely telephone voice which makes me laugh when he speaks-never heard a posh Fifer in my life!

Ineeda... You see Sky will have to produce more local programmes eg. FitLike? from Aberdeen, KenWhit? from Central and WhazzUp? from the West.

I had better not mention that I have had dealings (no! not the white powder kind) with Ms Hainey or I will be accused of name dropping again.

YABU. Because they way they say "situation" is much, much worse.

I also hear that Sky will be showing Taggart, in English as usual, but with subtitles for Weegies.

rofl laughing at notyummy that had me in tears! "torn faced cockney wankers"

i live about the same distance to Glasgow as to Edinburgh . I would say Glaswegians are much funnier Edinburgh is prettier love them both... heres tae us whas like us damn few and their a deid (sp?)

I am Scottish with english nephews and find it highly amusing that they "drawer" me a picture and my sil likes "rawzberry" jam.

I've lived in Glasgow for 23 years and have never said nor heard it said like that so

YADBU

I'm from Glasgow and never realised "slept in" was only said by us!

I do say "definit(e)ly" (short "i")- but there were people at work who, in an effort to sound more "edicated" used to say "definately".

Someone asked about "outwith": the way we still use it in Scotland is to mean "outside", for example "outwith office hours, your calls will be answered by an answering machine". The English will understand what you mean, but would never say it themeselves.

Other expressions: "loath", as in "I would be loath to do something", a graph that goes "up the way" or "down the way" (instead of "upwards" or "downwards").

I too find it amusing that the English will laugh at our accents, yet are unable to pronounce basic words properly - where is the "r" in "car" or "cart" for example, when someone from the "Saath" trys to say it?

I wid be lathe to rin and chase thee
Wi murderin prattle

Dslearnt the "English" version of that poem for his Burns Assembly on Friday - while one the Asian boys in his class recited the "original" version

My all time favourite accent has to be the Glasgow/Indian mix. I used to love Glasgow/Italian but you seldom hear that nowadays, not even in chip shops.

Oh Granny that reminds me of being in a hotel in Glasgow when I was younger.

Waiting on the lift on the ground floor it opened and a roup of women got out.
It was an Indian bride and she was breathtakingly stunning really jaw dropping in her red and gold sari and all her jewellery, I was a teen and she made me think of a princess.
She looked at her mother and said "aw maw i'm pure nervous so a am"

Was so funny to hear such a strong broad Glasewegian accent come out of that mental image I had given myself.

"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." IneedacleanerIamalazyslat that used to also makes me cringe. My DD's English boyfriend pick her up when she said "at the back of" ie at the back of 3 o clock.
Also laughing at this "I firmly believe every woman from Aberdeen looks and sounds like Roisin from River City!" I worked with a friend of hers for a few years and met her lots of times. One day we were driving into town and she jumped out of a taxi in front of us. My DH gave her a toot and she turned round and said "I ken I ken it's sh*te. Speaking about River City.

I am from Dundee but now live in England.

I used to go doon the toon on Seterday.

Now I go up the city on a Saturday.

Does anyone else turn off the big light? (it has been on here before btw)

I'm also from Dundee FimBOW - why are you shuddering? I miss going doon the toon on a Seterday

And yes, I turn the big light on and off

Did you have Fave pays on the way home as well in Dundee?

My brother was in the same year as her that plays Roisin at school, she actually bizarrly doesn't sound or look as bad IRL, I always said that her face needed an equity card of it's own some of her facial expressions are hilarious.
Her and my brother applied for drama college at the same time, she got in her never....look where he could have ended up

LOL I say turn off the big light, finbow.

Didn't realise it was a west coast thing to say "slept in" can't imagine saying anything else. Funny thing is I've lived all over the UK and nobody has ever picked me up on it.

Dundee is quite rough and the accent is grim.

My Uncle is not David but Davit.

I slept in this morning.

What is Fave pays?

I like Aberdeen Rolls but dh reckons (another Dundonian!) they are called rowies.

I say slept in and I couldnt be more down in the south east of England!!

But my Nan is 1/2 Scottish......

I say slept in and I'm forrin.

Rowies are what Aberdeen rolls are called in Aberdeen.

Fave pays = 5 pehs?

When I sleep in I have a long lie. No-one here in England understands this expression!

Not all Dundee is rough FimBOW - I'm from the Ferry [quite posh]