Anyone familiar with Glasweigan slang?

Going to school on the southside of Glasgow in the 70s ken was used

Err, naw thae dinnae and wi’d chib any tube daft enuff to utter it….in those days you’d never hear it west of Harthill.

I’d also recommend Shuggie McBain as a read if you want to get into Glasgae culture

I’m west of Paisley, ‘Ken’ disnae stert until Ayrhsire.

Speaking as one who policed in and around the 2nd city of the empire for three decades, I’ve never, ever been called a ‘bizzie’. 5-Oh and Po-Po are both currently popular, as is feds, with filth, scum, Black b’strds, c***s and fannies also used by Buckie soaked wearers of Kappa shell suits and fake Burberry caps.

Hang on which character is Josh?

The mad daftie on the mushies?

Have a look on BBC I player there are 2 great Scot dialect programmes one about swearing and rebel tongue about Scot dialect

Grew up in a g postcode* so happy to help. And to confirm Cops are The Feds, Polis or 5-0.

Post some more up and I can help translate.

*ok so far more like bearsden than springburn but still i know a lot of proper weegies

NB if you haven’t mentioned a bottle of bucky, someones da being on the brew and drinking bru then no one will believe its set in Glasgae.

This is a great thread.

Telling people they’re ‘at it’ is popular IME. 🙂 I’ve only ever hear polis for police.

We’re not savages.

🤔

stevemuzzy
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Glasgae.

Chookter alarm bells gin aff here! 😆

Absolutely no one in Glasgow says ken, not a chance.

Or glesgae. 😆

he grew up in Springburn but his family moved to Bearsden

A fantasy novel then?

Great thread, but PMSL at this ^^^. Keep it coming OP (please)….

@nobeerinthefridge

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Absolutely no one in Glasgow says ken, not a chance.

Or glesgae. 😆

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Weegieland or Glasgae for me. Maw born in Maryhill. So get it up ye fannybaws 😉

And @seosamh77 yer da w***s tae scooter ya muppet. Calling me inglish, pure pish patter.

What glaswegian shampoo called? go and wash 🙂

Just grab yersen an Irvine Welsh book. Any one. It’s Edinburgh dialect likesay bit nae **** will ken.

Hen not ken 🙂

Always call women hen or doll

Just to confirm – no “Ken” in glasgow, Ayrshire or east side. I’d also say all your “romantic” broons style Scots doesn’t sound genuine – it sounds like an Englishman pretending to be Scots without understanding the subtleties. May only offend the Scots (and maybe only half of them) but people like books about places they know…

I also don’t think your character in the first quote says he’s sorry about his friends dad. Glaswegian men do not express emotions to other Glaswegian men, except about the fitba. He may say something like “that was shit what happened tae yir da” but he won’t be sorry. They also don’t “fancy” going to do anything (other than burds) – “ye wanna go find some mushies” might be appropriate; although I’d say it’s not the normal drug of choice in Glasgow, and I don’t think they’d describe it by the act of foraging the crop rather than the destination – “i wannae go get some mushies an get aff ma face, ya comin?”

When is it set? Polis would be normal for anyone who hasn’t grown up in the YouTube era (so probably born late 90s onwards) after that you’ll hear feds etc creeping in – but polis wouldn’t be out of place.

For your sas comment I’d go with something like “whit the **** are you wearing, we cannae go like that, we’ll stan oot like the Pope at Ibrox”

Busies is common usage in Edinburgh. never heard po po or feds used by a native.

That’s becus there urnae any!

Q. Whit d’ye cry a Scotsman in Edinburgh?

A. A tourist.

🙂

This smacks of middle class Scottish people pretending to know working class Glaswegian.

Glasgae used by people not from Glasgow trying to sound Glaswegian. Think russ abbot. And not to be confused with our annual celebration of homosexuality glasgay.

James Kelman is your go to for an authentic Glasgow voice.

5-0 comes from the Wire and not Glaswegian.

Just to confirm – no “Ken” in glasgow, Ayrshire or east side.

I lived in Ayr for 3 years – the farm staff finished every sentence with ‘ken.

This smacks of middle class Scottish people pretending to know working class Glaswegian.

Glasgae used by people not from Glasgow trying to sound Glaswegian. Think russ abbot. And not to be confused with our annual celebration of homosexuality glasgay.

Yup. Though it’s nowt to do with class, more one of geography, despite spending a lot of time in Glasgow, I’m not from there so wouldn’t attempt to inform the OP.

Then you’ve Leith’s answer to Rod Stewart questioning yer average weegies washing habits, when he’s still lives in a tennement, no even got carpets and his wife makes his claes. 😆

Remember Glasgow is a really big place. Lots of cultural diversity and language differences. Lots of different levels of class and people had local variations on everything.

My mum was born and grew up in Maryhill and I was raised in a wee village 15 miles north of the city centre where my mum met my dad when she moved north of the city.

Lived in a council house till I was 21.

Russ Abbott I am not….

Michty me!

Chaos and disharmony reigns amongst the Glesgae punters.

My work here is done, ken?

Tune in same time next week for the new episode of “Yer no’ a real weegie” where we’ll discuss Roasted Cheese, whit ye’d call an empty Irn Bru bottle and what the correct term for an Ice Cream van is.

Roasted cheese or cheesy roaster?

It’s all getting a bit “I used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let us work there. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.”

(not going to try and translate into wedgie!)

Roasted cheese is a Kraft type cheese slice on toast innit? If you were posh the bread was toasted on both sides 😛

“Hey you, that’ll be right”

A teacher was lecturing his class in Glasgow one day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.

However,” he pointed out, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”

Wee Jimmy pipes up from the back of the class “Aye, right.”

Stanley Baxter – Parliamo Glasgow – Mia Farra’s farra, the marra & the barra

Roasted cheese is a Kraft type cheese slice on toast innit?

Roasted cheese, Toasted cheese, cheese on toast. It’s all the same. Any bread any cheese.

It’s an example of linguistic geographical indictor that betrays your true roots.

I, for example, as a dyed in the wool resident of deepest darkest Lanarkshire, would have thought it perfectly normal as a child to eat some roasted chesse and then take a hector to the tally to buy a black man.

A true Weegie would be more likely eat toasted cheese instead and then deposit their gless cheque at the van in exchange for a double nugget.

TJ, on the other hand would have Welsh Rarebit and would follow it up with an artisan Gelato.

However,” he pointed out, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”

Wee Jimmy pipes up from the back of the class “Aye, right.”

Would that not be sarcasm, though? as opposed to a double positive being a negative?

This smacks of middle class Scottish people pretending to know working class Glaswegian.

Unless your definition of middle class is anyone who isn’t a weegie I’d say you’re well off the mark there.

Glasgae used by people not from Glasgow trying to sound Glaswegian.

I’d honestly never heard the word until the whole Glasgay thing started, always referred to as Glesga.

I lived in Ayr for 3 years – the farm staff finished every sentence with ‘ken.

Where abouts? I’m Ayrshire all my days, grew up in Troon, my mum was from Prestwick and her folks from Ayr and Dalmellington. Never heard ken used as punctuation (like a Fife/Forth eh/ih) but it’s a big place. Nobody in the North seems to use it that way either.

Leith’s answer to Rod Stewart

Harsh 😂

I’m Ayrshire all my days,

In which case you’ll think that the number seven has about 6 e’s in it and that the number 2 has an a in it.

Seeeven and tway, ken?

Never heard ken used as punctuation (like a Fife/Forth eh/ih)

Neither have I but I have often heard it (and used it) as a synonym for know.

I lived in Ayr for 3 years – the farm staff finished every sentence with ‘ken.

Where abouts?

I lived and studied / worked at the Hannah Research Institute, opposite Auchincruive (from ’89-’92).

The farm staff were locals and used ‘ken.

Many of the techs were also local but did not.

Seeeven and tway, ken?

Only East Ayrshire, oot past Mauchline, you won’t hear anyone else say twae. Ken would be used as in ‘a ken, luck at him, he’s a right stauner’, never as a you say at the end, like my mates from Sauchie that say eh? at the end of every sentence, like a question.

Seeven, aye, guilty. 🙂

The farm staff were locals and used ‘ken.

Aye, the farmers are a different breed, I work with one from Darvel (Dervel!) and one from out by Maccruiskeen I haven’t a clue what either of them are on about most of the time. Hannah now long gone, new houses there these days.

and one from out by Maccruiskeen

Naebody oot there pays road tax.

Can confirm that as an Ayrshire boy, when I first moved to Glasgow 20 years ago, I got torn to shreds by my workmates whenever I said “ken”

Seeven, aye, guilty.

What about “ablow”?

as in ….”Where’s the dug?….It’s in ablow the table”

Are you guilty of that one as well?

Seeven, not so much myself but its common enough. Twae on the other hand, nope. Twa wher ah come fae.

If you want a universal Ayrshire [Errshir?] tell it would probably be gadz, never heard it used or even understood elsewhere. My missus didn’t like me saying it in front of the wean cos she thought it was cursing 😂

Neither have I but I have often heard it (and used it) as a synonym for know.

Same.

Heard of ablow, never heard it used though. What about pruch /pruchin? As in, pit yer pruch doon an gies a haun / Jimmy’s ower the [work] stores pruchin fir battery’s.

The problen that I have is that I am a complete language sponge. I absorb the vocabularly and inflection of theose around me almost instantly. It’s left me with a mongrel vocabulary.

My wife can pretty much tell who’s been working in our office when I come home just based on the way I’m speaking.

She hated it when I worked with an Australian and a Zimbabwean.