Prestonpans/Edinburgh dialect

[frannieg]

I'm thinking I will get my Prestonpans friend to make me a wee video of him speaking some Lowland Scots. He has already made me one or two 3 min. videos of this n that. That should be a big help.

I'm sitting here looking and soundling like a fool trying to roll my 'r's. lol It's not as easy as you think, bktheman.

fernachie, I wish we could go visit Embra. BTW, what's an Embra? lol

bluebur, I was mostly wantin' to learn to impress my Prestonpans friend. lol I do have a fantasy of visiting Scotland someday. Anyway, what little I've heard of the Scots language has enthralled me. I want to learn more. And really would be quite happy to just be able to "write it". And be able to understand it when I read it. Which is not that difficult, actually.

[bktheman]

frannie, at least you are trying - that's a start

BTW Embra is how someone from Glasgow says Edinburgh
Pronounce it Em-brrrah (roll those Rs !!). People from Edinburgh sometimes call people from Glasgow "Weegies" pronounced Weejiz, a word derived from Glaswegian - but it is often used in a derrogatory sense. There's always been a bit of rivalry between the two towns which are actually only about 50 miles apart.