Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Robin said
> >
> > "Articulate lassies in them days, but."
> >
> > You've been hanging aound the aussies too long, but.
> >
> > J
>
> I think I've currently got an aussie tangle in my head, Josie -- managed to
> transpose A.D.Hope across the Continents to Canada. You've few enough poets
> that you can afford to lose one <g>.
>
> Thought that trailing "but" (closest in Standard would be ending with
> "though") was a Glasgow linguistic marker -- does it run with you too, then?
I'd never heard it until I arrived in Aus. Thought you were
joining in or having a wee joke, now i find the glaswegians
started it all. Oh well!
J
(who'd be off to sit in the corner again
but she's still there from last time and anyway
she's decided to take permanent residence in there,
its finda comfy really)
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