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Merlot
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Post by Merlot » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:38 pm

Lingua Populari Glasguensi

Compound words
Zatrih - Is that so!
Zatno - Is that not, e.g. Zatnohim
Erra - Behold, e.g. Errabus
Wherza - Where is, e.g. Wherzabus
Geeza - Please give me, e.g. Geeza drink

Gender
Jimmy or Jim - Sir, e.g. C’Moanjimmy
Hen - Madam, e.g. C’Moanhen
Kinny - can he?
Kinshi - can she?

Duplicate Words
Oors - as distinct from theirs
Oors - a long time
Oors n’ oors - a considerable period of time
Wally - (close) tiled
Wally - (dugs) porcelain
Wallies - Dental Prosthetics
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Post by DavidWW » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:32 pm

Anyone who wants to see just how complicated this can get needs to acquire a copy of Stanley Baxter's Parliamo Glasgow ..............

Some simple examples ...............

Agotfairdrookit
Ahhvnigoteonymerr
Amfairscunnert
Amnorichtintheheid
Arerrterratraferr
(Glasgow holiday starts the 1st Friday after the 12th of July)
Awaanboilyirheid
Geezaboattlaskoosh
Geeswanoyerfagsahvranoot
Gerapunabutterfurramura
Girowrhereanstopyirmoochinaboot
Gerruptheweansgreetin
Gonnaegeeratclownadun
Gonnaenodaerat
Gonnaepirritinapoke
Hawhenfanciastotroontheflair.
Hawhenhayaweeseat.
Hawmawthrowmedoonajeelypiece
Hesaglakitedjit
Hesarightwarmer
Hootsmonitsabrawbrichtminlichtnichtthenicht
Howzitgaun
Maheidsbirrlin
Smashinintit
Sowererr
Stoatinaffthegrun
Suppacloas
Watchooterrapolis
Whitaherrie
Whitasmasher
Whitshurheiddain
yirameallimoothedscunner
Yirfaceislikeachowedchip
Yirsimmitismawkit
Yirteethshinginoottaedry

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Post by Jockbird » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:52 pm

Not forgetting:-

Yirbumsootthawindae

Or have I made that up & we only used it in oor hoos.

Donna
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Post by Russell » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:33 am

Naw Donna

Ah huv heard that mairn a few times

As weel as yerheedinapoke ya eejit.

D'you hink a camuptheclydeonabananaboa'

Yer a stumourwiyerhumour David

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Post by StewL » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:52 am

When we used to try and fool or lie to our mither. :oops:

Do you think ah came up the clyde ona bike! :lol:
Stewie

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Post by mallog » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:04 am

Ye'll huv yer heid in yer hauns tae play wi the noo
Anderson, McAlpine, Blue - Argyll
Dunn Fife /ML
Coutts, McGregor - Perth/Govan
Glen, Crow, Imrie - Angus
Scott & Pick ML
Mason - Co Down

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Post by bobbyinmelbourne » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:51 am

"And eehh "- don't know if that spelling conveys the Scots version of 'Um', but if it doesn't well ah canny be bothered footerin'aboot, ahm scunnered as it is, here at the Lanark Palais an' it's jist fu' o' wee bauchles, ah think the Tattie boat's in.[the pubs had shut and there were no good sorts to be had]
See I'm bilingual, well trilingual, because there was parentspeak, friendspeak and now Auspeak and if yees don' like it yes kin a'away an bile yer heids.....
I love that expression, and still use it today, 40 years on. Wonder how some o' they wee bauchles are?
also wee hairies....s'funny, are there any complimentary expressions?, or was the talent so thin on the ground at the aforesaid Palais- there's another one, the talent.....
Bobby
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Post by DavidWW » Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:50 pm

Russell wrote:....much snipped .....

Yer a stumourwiyerhumour David

Russell
Actually, I cheated :!: :cry: , copying these terms from a site that I found on the www when I Googled on the basis of "Parliamo Glasgow", but decided that it was "inappropropriate" to post the www address here due to the language/vocabulary used elsewhere on the site in question, especially in a pome on the home page, - let's just put it this way, Billy Connolly would be proud of the vocabularly used and see no problem with it, - but I have now most certainly learnt my lesson about posting such links, however much it might be the case that the language used is the everyday language of many Glaswegians however much we might like or dislike that reality :!:

How many folk out there have seen the film Trainspotting?, - wrong side of the country, ken, but that's the way that mony folk speak these days, however sad that might be...............

David

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Post by Jockbird » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:03 pm

Bobby,

Canny think o' any nice ones. If someone was nice to me in our household I'd wonder what I'd done wrong!

From what I saw you saved polite & nice for the ones you didn't like.

Some of those wee bauchles are probably in a clamjamfrie somewhere.... :wink:

In fact, there's two wee bauchles in ma hoos.

Donna
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Post by Merlot » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:27 pm

Donna,

Gonny geeza clue whit a "clamjamfrie" is?

Davie,

Do you use this? "A wee tate"

Merlot
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