Bath or Baaarth, Glass or Glaaarrrss

[Madalien]

Any Americans that play at Glasto always pronounce it Glaston-berry, it really get's on my nerves!

[Niblet]

Ay up mi ducks, ah's it goin yof? Ah reckon proper way t' say its glastunbree. Nowt up wiy road anyone else sez it like bur I wo taught t' speak proper like. Nah shift out road and learn to speak proper duck.

[sifi]

ayup marra, it's good to see someone who speaks proper english.

oooh wori wee? wori wee iz sen?

any road up, I've gorra go as uv ot me sen an 'm being mardy.

Edited March 13, 2009 by sifimaster

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

ayup marra, it's good to see someone who speaks proper english.

oooh wori wee? wori wee iz sen?

any road up, I've gorra go as uv ot me sen an 'm being mardy.

Edited March 13, 2009 by glasto_mongrel_2008

[Kyelo]

I've always said Glass-ton-bry but what the hell do I know, I can't even say garage correctly. (And yes, I realize we Americans completely made up our pronunciation of that word, it's always bothered me).

Edited March 13, 2009 by BenchBuddah

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

Doric

GIN I was God, sittin' up there abeen,

Weariet nae doot noo a' my darg was deen,

Deaved wi' the harps an' hymns oonendin' ringin',

Tired o' the flockin' angels hairse wi' singin',

To some clood-edge I'd daunder furth an', feth,

Look ower an' watch hoo things were gyaun aneth.

Syne, gin I saw hoo men I'd made mysel'

Had startit in to pooshan, sheet an' fell,

To reive an' rape, an' fairly mak' a hell

O' my braw birlin' Earth,--a hale week's wark--

I'd cast my coat again, rowe up my sark,

An' or they'd time to lench a second ark,

Tak' back my word an' sen' anither spate,

Droon oot the hale hypothec, dicht the sklate,

Own my mistak', an, aince I cleared the brod,

Start a'thing ower again, gin I was God.

[Kyelo]

Now that is a strong regional accent. Ah cuunt mek eds nor tails of it.

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

Me either! lol it's dying out a bit and tends to be small fishing or farming towns that have it. Ever watched 'Trawlermen'? They use it(it's subtitled lol). Where I stayed for 18 years of my life was bang in the middle of Aberdeen(Grampian) and Inverness(Highlands) so we would get both local radio stations at different parts of the town. We would beg for the KER(Grampian) station to work so we could listen to them. It's like a complete different species speaking let alone a dialect, it's brilliant to listen to.