tongue_tied_danny Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 The Dundee accent is a strange one. Especially as it's kinda isolated. Angus, Fife and Perth are all completely different. Forfar is just over 10 miles away but the accent is totally different. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Northboy said: Overuse of "actual" or "actually" really bugs me. A couple of years ago I was on a course with some guys from Paisley. One night they'd gone out for a meal and the next day one of them said "the actual restaurant was actually down by the actual river". Gut wrenching! One of my grandsons uses "actually" a lot. Mind you, he's only 6. His big cousin used to do the same at that age, although he's carried it on into his teen years, actually. Edited November 17, 2016 by Jacksgranda sllepnig 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 29 minutes ago, jagfox99 said: Who the fůck is Ken? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernJambo Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Who the fůck is Ken? Yawhooresir, a thought aw c**t ken's ken, eh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 That manky posh Aberdeen accent da yoof in the suburbs have. Very American twangy. Howlin! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudu Dahan pal Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 f**k all wrong with the word Ken. A lot of jealous weegies/ weegie wannabes on here it seems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 52 minutes ago, Hibeesbounce75 said: f**k all wrong with the word Ken. A lot of jealous weegies/ weegie wannabes on here it seems. If someone spoke to me and used the word "ken", I'd assume they had an IQ of under 70. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudu Dahan pal Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 If someone spoke to me and used the word "ken", I'd assume they had an IQ of under 70. If I spoke through my nose like most west of Scotland thickos whilst saying it then that'd probably be true. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 (edited) Aberdeenshire is a mixed bag - I stay near Banchory these days, which is generally quite posh including loads of English incomers - but also a hub for rural communities where the accent can be indecipherable, but quite poetic - each time I go to get firewood from Midmar the greeting is "oh michty aye, pick yersel a puckle".... However, it can be rough up in North Aberdeenshire - e.g. the Banff & Buchan coast, where an old firm supporting underclass is prevalent - overly broad north-east is a brutal thing to hear, sometimes even worse when connecting at Heathrow or Schiphol after a holiday for the ABZ flight and hearing it for the first time in a couple of weeks. Most Scottish accents are acceptable when relatively refined, but the weirdest one I heard was Stranraer, when we went there for a midweek LC tie about 10 years back........nice enough accent, but unusual - think Kevin Kyle and Colin Calderwood I suppose - maybe the Ulster proximity. Edited November 17, 2016 by tarapoa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Slenderman said: If someone spoke to me and used the word "ken", I'd assume they had an IQ of under 70. You're generous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpreader Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Slenderman said: If someone spoke to me and used the word "ken", I'd assume they had an IQ of under 70. Ken, that's everyone that stays in the Borders then, ken? And if you said that to someone in Hawick.....it would take you a couple of hours explaining what ' IQ' means Edited November 17, 2016 by McSpreader 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Who the fůck is Ken? Hello. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 3 hours ago, Hibeesbounce75 said: f**k all wrong with the word Ken. A lot of jealous weegies/ weegie wannabes on here it seems. Ken likes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 There's a branch of Sanchezes from Fife who talk like they're from Fife. I don't see them very often and when I last did every sentence they spoke ended with an inflection that would give you vertigo. And "eh?" tacked on for no apparent reason. It was really disorientating because when you're not listening and tuning it out (because that's what you do when people from Fife talk) then hear what you assume is a question you think: Oh! What? Am I being asked something? That wasn't a question, why are you saying it like one? Not helped by the fact every time one of them does it I find myself wanting to scream YOU GREW UP IN MARYHILL, mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Also, the last time I was at T in the Park (2011) it was full of obvious thickos who kept walking about musing loudly "aye the place is full a weegies ken/like/eh" Cretins, to a man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stuart. Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 f**k all wrong with the word Ken. A lot of jealous weegies/ weegie wannabes on here it seems. I've heard 'ken' used a lot around Ayrshire and D&G 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Ah kehn eh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 The worst part of the Glasgow Uni accent is the way they pronounce "T" as "D" in a lot of situations. "It was only, like, you know, fordy quid". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Also, the last time I was at T in the Park (2011) it was full of obvious thickos who kept walking about musing loudly "aye the place is full a weegies ken/like/eh" Cretins, to a man. Like and eh perfectly acceptable at the end of that sentence, Ken doesn't work and I refuse to believe anyone would use it in that context Kehn means I know or know, just doesn't work 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob the tank Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Gads, it must be Ayrshire so it is 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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