> I must be one of few non-Glaswegians on the list (my granny came from
> Edinburgh) but, though I pretty much got the drift of the original, this
wee
> spoiler makes it clearer.
As you're not from Edinburgh yourself, Jill, I'll forgive you for the
moment.
To digress (around your comment above) there's a funny thing about dialect.
I have no problems with Tom's work (I grew up there after all) but I found
Irvin Welsh's Edinburgh speech in +Trainspotting+ virtually impenetrable.
The trouble seemed to be that it was just that bit skew to what my ear would
admit to, but my son (brought up in England with no linguistic background in
this area) had no trouble with it at all. Odd.
Have you come on the novels of Christopher Brookmyre? I find them
hysterically funny, but I can never always work out whether they're set in
Glasgow or Edinburgh. Some in one, some in the other, and there are
references that separate them out, but when it comes to the language,
distinguishing between which dialect he's using baffled me. I think it's
that my ear is a little tin in this area.
> Appreciated.
Gratzia
Robin
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