Jacksgranda Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 1 hour ago, deadasdillinger said: So thanks to P&B, I've known for a while that Dundonians are weirdos who call roundabouts "circles" But this week on holiday in Piperdam, just outside Dundee, I heard a new one... Was buying the wee man pancakes from the Asda cafe when the girl serving asked "Do you want me to cozy the pancakes?" Naturally, I looked at her like she had two heads and said "What?", at which point her and her colleague repeated: "Cozy them. Cozy the pancakes." Apparently it means warm them up. Is this another weirdo Dundee thing? I knew what it meant as soon as I read it, but I might have had difficulty understanding it if someone had spoken it to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 On 31/01/2020 at 12:40, Arch Stanton said: From Helensburgh through Greenock to the northern boundary of Beith, east through Paisley, Glasgow to Newhouse and North & South Lanarkshire.. this is the Ken-free zone. I would say the ‘Ken-free zone’ ends at Howwood on the western side of your border. The difference in dialect between Howwood and Beith is noticeable, and if you travel a couple of miles down the road to Kilbirnie it’s a different planet, in more ways than one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Eednud said: To which you should have responded “Cozy. Fanta, 2 tea”. Eh’ll get meh coat. Bit highbrow for a Sunday m8. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, deadasdillinger said: So thanks to P&B, I've known for a while that Dundonians are weirdos who call roundabouts "circles" But this week on holiday in Piperdam, just outside Dundee, I heard a new one... Was buying the wee man pancakes from the Asda cafe when the girl serving asked "Do you want me to cozy the pancakes?" Naturally, I looked at her like she had two heads and said "What?", at which point her and her colleague repeated: "Cozy them. Cozy the pancakes." Apparently it means warm them up. Is this another weirdo Dundee thing? Didn't take you long to pick up some of the lingo. Nice touch! Edited July 4, 2021 by Cosmic Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Everyone has an accent, and the West Central is one of the most easily identifiable. They'd also almost certainly reply to you by saying "definitely" despite their strange inability to pronounce this simple word. Therefore, I call shenanigans. Or saying December as if there's a bee in the middle of the word.The other one that gets on my tits is the inability to pronounce the letter J. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 3 hours ago, deadasdillinger said: Is this another weirdo Dundee thing? Asda mummy cafe weirdo talk. Never heard anyone say that. It's exactly what you deserve for making your children eat in an Asda cafe, btw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 12 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: The other one that gets on my tits is the inability to pronounce the letter J. The correct pronunciation is that the letter J rhymes with the letter I. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 35 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: The correct pronunciation is that the letter J rhymes with the letter I. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 38 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: The correct pronunciation is that the letter J rhymes with the letter I. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scw1987 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 I would say the ‘Ken-free zone’ ends at Howwood on the western side of your border. The difference in dialect between Howwood and Beith is noticeable, and if you travel a couple of miles down the road to Kilbirnie it’s a different planet, in more ways than one. Beith/Kilbirnie/Dalry is the Scottish equivalent of the Bermuda triangle, strange, strange things happen there... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdillinger Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 59 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said: Asda mummy cafe weirdo talk. Never heard anyone say that. It's exactly what you deserve for making your children eat in an Asda cafe, btw. Fair comment. It wouldn't have been my choice. We followed it by having an absolutely fantastic lunch in Mitchell's in St Andrews, so it wasn't all bad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, scw1987 said: 3 hours ago, IrishBhoy said: I would say the ‘Ken-free zone’ ends at Howwood on the western side of your border. The difference in dialect between Howwood and Beith is noticeable, and if you travel a couple of miles down the road to Kilbirnie it’s a different planet, in more ways than one. Beith/Kilbirnie/Dalry is the Scottish equivalent of the Bermuda triangle, strange, strange things happen there... I would strongly agree with that. A friend of mine played junior football in Ayrshire a few years back and I would go along to most of his games. There was many towns/villages that I traveled to that was like going back to the 1970’s. Maybole was one that sticks out, it makes Paisley look like Monte Carlo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Just a personal thing and obviously a bit of neighbouring town rivalry being a Stirling boy myself but the way a lot of people from Falkirk pronounce it as 'Fawkirk' absolutely boils my piss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Flybhoy said: Just a personal thing and obviously a bit of neighbouring town rivalry being a Stirling boy myself but the way a lot of people from Falkirk pronounce it as 'Fawkirk' absolutely boils my piss. I’m on a job with a few guys from Falkirk/Stenhousemuir just now, and every word that comes out their mouth boils my piss. I used to work up in Aberdeenshire with a bunch of guys from Fraserburgh and Peterhead and I would rather listen to their nonsense over the Falkirk guys. There’s an older guy from Bonnybridge who speaks in the exact same manner as the ‘Limmy - That Accent’ skit, only after everything he says he adds ‘kinda hing’ to the end of it, wether it makes sense or not. ‘Was talking to the boss there eh, says we’ve to pack the tools up eh, get oursel up the road eh, kinda hing’. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 4 hours ago, Mr. Alli said: Asda mummy Wid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Fawkurk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 Nothing is as batshit as that north-east nonsense of replacing words beginning with "wh" with "f". Who started that? You even hear it as far south as Arbroath. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 5 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Nothing is as batshit as that north-east nonsense of replacing words beginning with "wh" with "f". Who started that? You even hear it as far south as Arbroath. Stop finging, ya wee fippersnapper. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Nothing is as batshit as that north-east nonsense of replacing words beginning with "wh" with "f". Who started that? You even hear it as far south as Arbroath. Whuck you, sister whelching Whifer! Edited July 4, 2021 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Nothing is as batshit as that north-east nonsense of replacing words beginning with "wh" with "f". Who started that? You even hear it as far south as Arbroath. Shut the whuck up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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