Monday 12 March 2007

Scottish Slang and dialect

I was changing a play I had from being set in Ireland to being set in Scotland. I used to live near Glasgow so I think I still have an ear for the accent but I needed a refresher so I did some googling. This is the best site I found. Great words I'd forgotten I knew.

Bampot
Bevvy
pinkie
messages
numpty

used Googleworld to choose the actual, imaginary setting, near Glasgow but referring to Dundee.

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