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  • That's my patter …

    Posted by on January 20, 2010

    It’s all about Scottish-English this week. Here is a guest blog by Nick Gillard about English spoken by “Weegies“. ________ I was born in Glasgow (Scotland’s largest city) where English is spoken but not quite as we know it, Jimmy*. Like Liverpool, (perhaps Glasgow’s closest cousin) over 50% of “Weegies” are Irish Catholic in origin [...]

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