Do I sound like that?

[EyelineronThursdays]

Has anyone seen the Twitter video about 'Glasgow you're a fighter... yer da delivering bread'.

Now the photography is beautiful, the words are lovely... but that's not a real accent, is it?!

It doesn’t ring true to my ear either

(Scottish but not Glaswegian otoh my husband & all his family are, I lived in Glasgow for more than 5 yrs.)

Who would say da not faither. It sounds Scottish with Irish words.

Da doesn’t particularly stick out to me, I’ve certainly heard it used IRL over faither.

It’s the cadence I think. She overpronounces certain words then tries to Glaswegianify others.

I've listened it it now and it's not far off how some of dh's family speak (although he himself is more "refined" now probably my posh Glasgow influence ).

He was brought up Catholic in the South Side of Glasgow: Priesthill and Kinning Park (whereas according to him I'm not true Glaswegian as I was brought up in Bearsden/Glasgow )

I've heard members of his family saying "Da" and we recently had a confusing "talking at cross purposes" incident when I thought he was talking about being a "worrier" whereas he was talking about being a "warrior"

The cadence is related to the poem so I wouldn't read anything into that.

Link to the poem if people are interested and haven't heard it (I had to search for it on Twitter)

https://twitter.com/hawkayescotland/status/1258416795771338752?s=21

It seems a funny mixture of the intonation of poetry and a sort of Glasgow accent.

Warrier/worrier/wurrier was one of the words which stood out to me!

The line is ‘Glasgow, you’re a warrior’. She says ‘wurrier’, which is ‘worrier’ to me

Apart from it being sentimental shite, the accent sounds generally glaswegian to my east coast ears. If that helps....

Without the subtitles I'd definitely think she was saying worrier! I wouldn't even consider warrior

Yes, the 'warrior' said as 'worrier' jarred.

To my ear it was a Glaswegian talking in their 'telephone voice' but slipping back occasionally. There's a lot of different accents in Glasgow, it's not all one.

Glaswegian here.
Sounds a bit Glasgow Uni accent to me, someone from Newton Mearns saying the patter.

It would definitely be da, don't know anyone who says faither.

And I said warrior and worrier out loud to check, warrior starts like waw and worrier like wuh.

sentimental shite

I must admit I cringed when listening. And the voice is very unattractive to my ears.

The first thing I thought was that it's yet another one of those urban poetry things (no idea what it's really called but you get my drift) where they speak in that really odd paced way.
They're supposed to move you I think, but it just makes me cringe
And also it's just a bit 'Who's like us??'
Erm, loads of other Cities actually, and I say that as a proud Glaswegian.

sentimental shite

I am a sucker for mawkish crap too, I should have been bawling at this!

The first thing I thought was that it's yet another one of those urban poetry things (no idea what it's really called but you get my drift)

Oh yeah, like those adverts for one of the banks?

I wouldn't have known the "worrier/wurrier/warrior" confusion if I hadn't had the conversation with dh (a true Glaswegian ) where I totally misunderstood him. I'll have heard him say the word before (especially as we support the Glasgow Warriors ) but in context, just maybe never noticed the different pronunciation.

He was seeing a physio about his hip (getting the result of his x-ray and an exercise regime) and she told him, after asking him how much pain he was ("discomfort" he said) and then looking at the x-ray, that he was a "worrier" (at least that's what I heard him say, when he was narrating it back to me), so I couldn't understand how that then meant that the x-ray showed definitively that he needed a hip replacement operation

It was only after about the 4th time he said it ( and I'd expressed confusion) that I realised he was saying that she'd said he was a "warrior" and minimising the pain he was in.

(She even let him take a picture of the x-ray while she was out of the room so that he could show it to my dad a retired radiologist to get someone he respected to confirm that he needed a new hip).

Ledehe. that's a good description. It sounded to me like someone with a pretty generic west accent

Bugger

Sounds like someone with a generic west coast accent, trying the patter

I've never heard anyone pronounce warrior as worrier. Not just in Glasgow, but elsewhere in the country. It's not even a natural pronunciation

Outskirts of Edinburgh here and that’s a Glaswegians accent you me.

*to me

But it is a natural pronunciation for some Glaswegians - unless you're saying that my 60 year old dh, born and bred (working class but university educated) Glaswegian, doesn't have a Glaswegian accent

I'm "posh" Glasgwegian, so have a different accent

It sounds normal to me. Very similar to my accent. I lived in Newton Mearns as a child and always remained in Glasgow South.

It is a real Scot, her Da works for Warburtons, delivering breed! True story!

I also am a university-educated working-class Glaswegian and it doesn't ring true to me

It just doesn't sound natural imo. It does seem a strange combination of a telephone voice and the patter.

It just doesn't sound natural imo. It does seem a strange combination of a telephone voice and the patter.

That's more to do with the poem than the reader though I would think?