[foot-loose]

A translation company is looking to recruit Glaswegian interpreters to help business clients who are baffled by the local dialect.

Today Translations placed an advert in The Herald newspaper on Tuesday seeking speakers of "Glaswegian English".

Successful candidates, who could earn up to £140 a day, must understand "vocabulary, accent and nuances".

The firm said that so far 30 people had applied for the positions - some of them in Glaswegian.

Today Translations spokesman Mick Thorburn said: "Over the last few months we've had clients asking us for Glaswegian translators.

"After some consideration we've decided this is a service we would like to offer.

"Usually, the role would involve translating documents but in this case it's more likely to be assisting foreign visitors to the city whose 'business English' is not good enough to understand the local dialect."

Mr Thorburn said successful candidates may have to sit in on business meetings.

He added: "We're not necessarily looking for people who are particularly skilled in linguistics, just candidates who can help out clients who may struggle with native Glaswegian."

Today Translations said that depending on the volume of applications, it expected to contact the successful clients in the next few weeks.

Earlier this year a bus driver was recognised for teaching his Eastern European colleagues at First Glasgow bus company to understand Glaswegian slang.

James Lillis said: "When new employees come to Scotland and hear the Glasgow accent, it can be a problem. Drivers have to learn to understand what is meant when a customer says, for example, 'Gie us an aw day tae the toon' (Give me an all day ticket to the town)."

SOME GLASGOW PATTER
Baltic (very cold)
Boost (head off)
Buckie (tonic wine favoured by youngsters)
Cludgie (toilet)
Eejit (idiot)
Hampden roar (score)
Hee haw (nothing)
Hen (term used to address a woman or girl)
Laldy (enthusiastic participation)
Maw (mother)
Midden (rubbish tip)
Pure (very)
Moroculous (drunk)
Messages (shopping)
Scooby (clue, rhyming slang - Scooby Doo)
Shoot the craw (leave in a hurry)
Stooky (plaster cast)
Swatch (look)
Toaty (small)
Ya dancer (fantastic)
Yersel (yourself)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 306582.stm



I especially like how the picture on the BBC site is called "weegie ad".

[Lactating Man Nips]

Hee haw (nothing)

C'mon that's just an animal noise. Do these exist ? :

cluck cluck (rainy weather)
cock-a-doodle-doo (good morning)
woof woof (errr..a dog)

[foot-loose]

Yes. You know hee haw!

[MK Chris]

"Scooby" is not Glaswegian. Also: "Laughing my boost"? "I'm going messages"?! "They were ya dancer"?

[foot-loose]

No.

Ahm gonna boost = I'm going to leave (head off)

Ahm gettin ma messages = I'm getting my shopping

Ya dancer = That's fantastic

[MK Chris]

I can see where the first one comes from, but the other two - particularly 'messages' are bizarre.

[foot-loose]

Isn't that the point of the article?

[Lactating Man Nips]

Glaswegian apparantly:

Apple and Pears (fruit)
Syrup and Fig (pudding)
Connolly (when someone claims to be from the shipyards when they only actually worked there 6 months)


Messages is a common Irish term for shopping I hear regularly as exemplified up there^^.

[foot-loose]

Oi. I saw that before you removed it!

*slap*

[Munki Bhoy]

Geezma ginger Could you please pass me my carbonated soda.

[Yudster]

I've always rather liked that use of "messages" for shopping. I think its cute, although I'm at a loss to know how it must have come about. Will the Scots here lynch me if I confess that I have, no doubt rather pretentiously, been using it myself for years?

[foot-loose]

I personally never saw it as a "Glasgwegian" thing myself.

[Yudster]

I knew it was Scottish, I don't think I ever gave thought to the precise source...!

[Lactating Man Nips]

I once came home to be told our dog had left some 'messages' on the kitchen floor.

Indeed he had brought in some of the shopping from the car. * popeye laughter *

[Latina]

Saw this on Facebook today... My friend is convinced some of those are from Fife. Although maybe that's just Glasgow influence in Fife.

I got all nostalgic when I saw the list. The toilet a couple of doors away from my Dad's old office was labelled "Cludgie".

[foot-loose]

Glasgow > Fife

[nade]

How bizzare, i said I was gonna "shoot the craw" on Tue when leavin work and it was only the Glaswegian who sits next to me that chuckled... nobody else understood what i meant.

[foot-loose]

Tell him yer gonna boost today. Noone ever understands that one.

[Latina]

Glasgow > Fife

I spent the weekend in Glasgow (having never properly been there before) and must say I quite agree.

[Lactating Man Nips]

I was given a Glaswegian Kiss once.

She was gorgeous and her lips were soft and luscious - most romantic. Then she headbutted me.

[Munki Bhoy]

While we're being picky here, "Eejit" is Irish. The fact that Glasgow is one of the cities in the UK where Irish descendants make up a significant proportion of the population probably explains that one. Although it makes me wonder why you never hear a Scouser say it.

[foot-loose]

Put the colours down, Munki - it's ok.

[Yudster]

If you really wanted to be sure I think you'd be asking that question in a more relevant place.

[dimtimjim]

Contary to popular belief, Glaswegians are not required to have an immigration interview.

[bmstinton93]

I miss Foots...