Think I've turned the corner (not gone around the bend)

baldowrie · Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:27 pm

must remind son to wear his cork hat and his mullet wig!

Millymollymandy · Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:10 am

baldowrie wrote:musses
pisstentaly taking

musses = missus, I think!

pisstentaly taking = piss taking, I think!

They be a funny lot in Scotland too, Nev!

baldowrie · Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:32 am

hey I resemble that remark

Wombat · Post: # 68829Post **Wombat** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:46 pm

No worries M3, I've known, worked with, lived with enough Scots to realise they're a bit on the strange side, maybe that's why we get so many here - the fit right in!

Nev

baldowrie · Post: # 68837Post **baldowrie** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:47 pm

some are stranger than others

Just to add I am from Scottish heritage but don't sound it!

Millymollymandy · Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:34 am

I'm a 1/4 Scottish too but I feel like I'm in a foreign country there!

Thomzo · Post: # 68923Post **Thomzo** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:44 pm

Ok well here we go, I am half Welsh, quarter Scottish and quarter German. I speak with an accent that is a mix of cockney (blame it on Eastenders, I didn't have a cockney accent when I lived in London) and west country (not quite "oooh arrr" but I do notice the odd "Asdal" slipping in from time to time). It's no surprise that I never seem to settle.

Zoe

ina · Post: # 68946Post **ina** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:57 pm

I've lived in Aberdeenshire for 7 years now, and I still have trouble with Doric... Understanding it, I'm talking about. Nevermind speaking it!

But other Scots have trouble with that, too. So it's not my German origin that's the reason for it!

Millymollymandy · Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:45 am

Thomzo, what does 'asdal' mean? I'm obviously not very fluent in west country!

Thomzo · Post: # 69018Post **Thomzo** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:21 pm

In Bristol, in particular, they add an "l" to the end of any word ending in a vowel. Hence, Asdal, potatol, tomatol. In fact, Bristol was originally called Bristo.

Zoe

baldowrie · Post: # 69019Post **baldowrie** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:20 pm

Thomzo, you're just a mongrel then

Ina, Doric...I just smile and nod and they carry on, haven't a clue what they have said though

I am 1/4 Scots but my father was more or less bought up in Scotland so spoke a lot of Scottish words which I did pick up. I have always considered myself more Scots than English, and had trouble at school because the English couldn't always understand me when I said things like wee-bit, aye and pronounced the letter 'e' and 'a'...Grandfather broad Fifer who first language was Gaelic up until he came to England. He left the Gaelic, except for insults

, but not his beloved pipe band music.

Millymollymandy · Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:50 pm

Ta Zoe! I haven't heard of that before. I wonder if Andy has started speaking like that now?