Sunday, January 8, 2012

How can you write in slang scottish?

I want to use words like cannot - (cannae, canna etc, )or didn't - (dinnae). Can a friendly Scot tell me how to write these words?

How can you write in slang scottish?
aye. What you want to be writing laddy is cannay', didnay' or up yer kilt ye wee scrabby toolta!



Some others:



Haud yer wheesht! Be quiet!

ye une dobar or yan dobar or dobar in da hoose!!
Reply:ae is always the way to go didnae %26amp; cannae, Why are you writing in slang scots?
Reply:cannae, didnae. Thats what I think but I just write how the word sounds if I'm writting how I speak, I don't think there's one right answer, different parts of Scotland pronounce words slightly differently like folk in Glasgow say whit for what and we say fit! I guess that's a different word but you see what I mean.
Reply:write it just as it sounds - although born and bred in Glasgow I don't talk like that- cannot-canny, don't,dinny, know,ken - A dinny ken er(I don't know her. ) Bits,boots, Geezer, guy, - I will hit you, dae yir face in.
Reply:With slang there is no right or wrong way. Just do it phonetically. You could always look at some of Burns poetry and see how he handled the spellings


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