Kennboy1978 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Surely you would be saying "so" at the start of a sentence. Only if you are an utter clown. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 15 hours ago, Slenderman said: If someone spoke to me and used the word "ken", I'd assume they had an IQ of under 70. Ken, Gan and such words - many from the Germanic/ Dutch lingo - proving that Scots over time (particularly in the east) picked stuff up from their hanseatic trading partners - and not just the "queen's English". Perfectly valid words to throw into your dialect - and doesn't sound too pikey (unless you're from Glenrothes). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 5 hours ago, Hamish's Passenger said: Wid Ken? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 4 hours ago, throbber said: It's not used anywhere on the west coast or in the Highlands. Take it you've never been to Stranraer? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 4 minutes ago, throbber said: I have met people from there and their accent was like Northern Ireland. It's called Galloway Irish and they use ken a lot like! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarusQPFC Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 The posh Scots accent you hear off some folks on TV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, jmothecat said: 'Ken' is used in every part of Scotland apart from Glasgow isn't it? Slightly ironic for Glaswegians to criticise how others speak. There's a distinct faultline which seems to start fairly abruptly maybe 20-25 miles east of Glasgow - in Shotts for example it'll be "know", but in Fauldhouse which is just a few miles away you've entered the Ken Zone. As regards Galloway Irish, it works both ways...if you go to some places on the north coast of Ni - Coleraine is a classic example - everybody sounds a bit Scottish. Edited November 18, 2016 by Hillonearth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 45 minutes ago, tarapoa said: Ken, Gan and such words - many from the Germanic/ Dutch lingo - proving that Scots over time (particularly in the east) picked stuff up from their hanseatic trading partners - and not just the "queen's English". Perfectly valid words to throw into your dialect - and doesn't sound too pikey (unless you're from Glenrothes). Good work. Other accents are neddy and uncouth but here on the east coast it's a sign of our cosmopolitan, international heritage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 My bad then. If you watch the Scheme which was filmed in Kilmarnock they say Ken in it quite a lot. My Glaswegian family also say it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Strange really as all my family from the west coast including Glasgow would never say it. A good number of people I know from Edinburgh don't say it either. Personal preference, maybe as simple as that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, WILLIEA said: It's called Galloway Irish and they use ken a lot like! Most of my family are from Stranraer and I don't think I can recall any of them using the word ken, whereas myself born and raised in Dumfries I tend to use it and hear it all the time. Edited November 18, 2016 by MONKMAN 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Dumfries is Borders' bumpkin territory though so that's not surprising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubo_blaha Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Correct - the only place in the North that I've heard 'ken' used is in Shetland, which has a distinct accent/dialect. Even then it was used as 'know' in that my mum will say "I kent him", I don't recall people using it in the way that Edinburgh folk stick 'ken, eh' at the end of a sentence. Most people would say "keen" instead of "ken" in Shetland ("I dunna keen" = "I don't know", "du keens" = "you know" etc). The Shetland dialect is almost a language of its own. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Lots of kenning in South Ayrshire, but more importantly: is this thread about accents or vocabulary? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonksy+HisChristianParade Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 There's numerous things Glaswegians say all the time which I find quite irritating. 'By the way', 'so it is', 'but' at the end of any sentence, 'pure'. I personally never use ken but do say like and eh quite a bit. Glaswegians tend to get quite excited about this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Heading East from Glasgow I think Twechar is start of the 'ken zone'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 2 hours ago, MONKMAN said: Most of my family are from Stranraer and I don't think I can recall any of them using the work ken, whereas myself born and raised in Dumfries I tend to use it and hear it all the time. My brother in law is a strannie but he doesn't use any obvious accentual deviancies? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Heading East from Glasgow I think Twechar is start of the 'ken zone'? I am from the last village before the ken zone... and it's not Twechar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Just now, Kennboy1978 said: I am from the last village before the ken zone... Pray do tell Ken. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 The Fife accent isn't that bad per se, but it sounds absolutely horrific on the women. Eta: Although one of brothers who lives there finishes every sentence with 'eh'. That's not an exaggeration. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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