https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-di...nwealth-recordings/021M-C1315X0001XX-0444V0#_
Accents change naturally over time, and the Glaswegian accent, to my ear, has altered dramatically in recent decades. Irrespective of what text is being read, the accent in the file above bears similarities to the working class accents in this clip below from the 1970s.
If you listen to the discussions in this British Library site you can also hear distinct class differences between the West End and Central/East Glasgow.
https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices
All of the above, I can handle, enjoy even, but New Glasgow to me is this, and it's not only spoken by young people, alas:
Pure brutal, so it is. ;-)
I really enjoyed the film about the old Underground. I have never seen that before and there is no doubt that it had more character. The accents on there are how Glaswegians speak on camera, at their work if they work in an office and very little use of slang.
My mother would always pull me up about pronunciation of certain words. If you tried to “speak properly”, as my mother would put it, you would be ridiculed as a snob, and probably battered.
The one thing I was dissapointed about the film, was at no time did anybody attempt to knock that patronising Morningside, Edinburgh prick the fuck out. :)
The last film I know. That is slang gone mad, and even I struggle to understand it. We don’t call it New, we call it Neddy. If you said, she talked like a Ned, people get a mental picture. This type of accent is mostly found on housing schemes, although by no means do all people living there speak like this.
The Glasgow accent depending on social class is anglicised, and rounded more. It can sound so false though, especially when people adopt it. Cringeworthy.
Thanks for putting this up, a trip down memory lane.
Oh and we sorted the really high level of knifecrime. London Met have been up recently to see how we did it.
Selective Culling. :)
No, it was sterilisation by postcode.
No, we got them to chill the fuck out. It’s still there but vastly reduced. You can get up to five years just for possession of a chib.
As we call knives.
I’m gonny Fucking chib you ya prick
A popular phrase. :)
