Hampden Diehard Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 "du kaens" The Shetland equivalent of "by the way" as spoken doon sooth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 more of an Embra "ye ken" but much the same idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Was that in Lerwick or out in the crofting townships or remoter islands? Even 30 or 40 years back, there was a big difference between the two and there were Lerwick folk that sounded like they were from the Scottish mainland and didn't use "du kaens" as a verbal full-stop and stuff like that. Not realy, there was the odd few outside lerwick but even there it was realy only in places like whalsey unst and pockets of northmavine where youd ever find a kid or even a young adult speaking in dialect, lerwick or country, (i lived in brae) almost A' da young eens spoke yon knappin wye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Not sure things were so different a generation ago. Back in the 80s it seemed to revolve around whether you went to Anderson High or the local high school whether you spoke broad Shetland or not in later life. Burra and Whalsay would have been the hotbeds for it because there were fewer oil-industry related incomers there unlike Brae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 aye quite possibly true years ago to, but even older toonies still sound like shetlanders, ones in there teens and early 20s sound like andy murray, zero accent and dialect . of course a few individuals buck the trend but outside youre whalsa and burra theres next to f**k all. Its a fecking shame to be ohnest cause it looks to be going the way of gaelic, go back to shetland in 40 years time and youl be lucky to hear anyonne not drawing their pensions speak it. i often asked people how such a thing like age can affect youre speach? no one realy knew for sure. some say it was the influx of oil workers. others say more exposure to tv and the internet , much cheaper travel to further affeild. some even suggest a decline in traditional crofting and fishing activities in favour of normal jobs ( shetland doesnt have a word for compressor. control valve computer ipad. etc etc) Some people clutched at straws saying "oh but all the youngsters still know how to speak it" pish im afraid. much like all the southers irish kids who get gaelic forced on them all through school they know how to speak i, they can speak it. but they do not. end of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 whar is du bidin boy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 My grandmother was from Dunrossness originally and I was there quite a bit in the 70s and 80s. Winding things back to irritating accents, when you could tell which township people were from by the way they looked and the way they spoke my vote would have been for Cunningsburgh in a Shetland context. Picture Cletus the slack-jawed yokel from The Simpsons with a tourie and a Shetland ganzie, basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Orkney (not sure about Sheltand) definitely use 'you ken? and 'ken how.....' etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 The way people from Orkney actually say Orkeny is annoying as f**k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 East (broad) Fife - possibly the most jakey accent you'll ever hear Uni accents - I thought this accent was specific to just Glasgow Uni, but that pretentious accent of "I'm better than you" can be heard at other unis. Aberdeen is pretty bad for it. 'Proper' Aberdeen - "fit like" may just be the most disgusting phrase I've ever heard Somerset/Gloucester/Bristol - simply cannot take those people seriously. Essex - can't stand those insufferable, pretentious, Grey Goose-drinking c***s on the tele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Namibian, Bahranian, Estonian, Bolivian and posh Scottish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 People from Hawick "Are we going to the cinema" = "Ou ee gan eh cinema" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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