Anne, i got lots of different english words used differently in Scotland, pharmacist/chemist, flashlight/torch,crying/greeting, boss/heid bummer and a lot more to learn aboot .. waaaaa
My name is Bond, James Bond, Sean Connery style Although Connery was east rather than west coast, and with a rather unique accent
thank God i'm sure i would survive when i'm there lol.... Seriously, i am learning it since last year, still have lots to ... just so different , not just the spelling haha, but i love it !
No one will expect you to spell like that Nickel you only need to know the spelling for fun. And mostly you only need to know all this to understand us natives, the majority will be a lot easier to understand, 'educated Scots' is quite a widespread accent and dialect these days and a lot closer to standard English.
Are you going to live in Grangemouth Nickel?, I know the place a little as I worked at the huge oil refinery there for a month a wee while back, I think OSS knows the place too as I remember discussing the place. There are one or two Filipinas there
I've not spent a lot of time in Grangemouth but it is in a very good spot in Scotland only 20 miles either direction to Edinburgh or Glasgow and Stirling is even closer, all wonderful cities, and of course Bo'ness is next to the water just up the road a wee bit.
yes i noticed that too..lol thank God my hubby to be speaks the standard English a lot, and would only speak the broad accent when he wants me to practice with him hahaa' and what makes him sexy is.. he is an easy to pleased person with my British /Scottish english . Love this thread... well done!
AYE , very guid and a wee toon and we will only drive like 15 minutes to the tourist spots, so blessed he lives in there.
Yes , that's where i am destined to live .. hahahah Aboot the Pinay's, he knows one filipino family there!
I stopped at a hotel there called Leapark Hotel, good bar, good food (by far the best in town), I met a Filipina who worked there then once again I saw her in the Wetherspoons pub in town with her family. Only a small shopping precinct there I'm afraid but Falkirk which is the closest city is only ten minutes drive away, I enjoyed it there on weekends for the restaurants and nightlife. The oil refinery owned by Ineos is the largest oil refinery in Europe and it dominates Grangemouth. Some good people live there, you will fit in no problem at all. You are guaranteed to bump into your Kabayan as the town is only small. Enjoy
I'm sure i would Timmers, thank you for showing me another picture of my fiance's town. He would often tell me, it only takes 5 mins walk going to asda from home but he would for 20 minutes, as he has friends stopping him for a wee chat lol.. scenes just like the old ways in my own home town here in the Philippines way back the 70's haha.. and i would love it
One of the reasons I fell in love with the Philippines was an odd sense of familiarity when I first went there, the communities and friendliness even now are much more like where I grew up in Scotland than where I currently live in England. I grew up in a tenement building, 9 flats, 9 families, everyone was my auntie or uncle even if they weren't really, everyone looked after everyone else's kids, our flat was small but we had the whole building to play in and all the space outdoors, everyone would help everyone else and nobody was rich all that has changed in many ways these days. In the Phils I feel like I am back in my childhood, I feel like I am at home as even though all the accents are different and it's warm and in many ways very different, it is still so reminiscent of the old days in 1960's Scotland. One of the first times I was in Ana's mothers house they served me fried luncheon meat, it was so close to Lorne sausage, square slice that I could hardly believe it and a lot of other Philippine dishes reminded me of Scottish stews and so on. Odd that such distant places have so much in common, Filipino's share something in their nature with the Scots but I can't define it precisely.
I think you have already got a really good picture of Grangemouth, even the ASDA where you will be doing your weekly shop, its a reasonably sized store too, I used to get my sandwiches there before starting a shift. One thing I did see at Grangemouth that I never got an explanation for is that there is an old WW2 Hurricane fighter plane at the side of one of the roads there, maybe the inventor lived there or something I don't know.
There was an airport there that was used during the war by Spitfire's and Hurricane's, there were also some crash landings in local farms, so probably a memorial for the war effort.
Thanks for that OSS, I asked a couple of people what it was there for when I was there but surprisingly they didn't know.
I've only ever driven through Grangemouth maybe once or twice, but I've often looked over at it from the motorway or the train and watched the flame off at the plant from a distance, probably safer to keep a good distance from that plant A major bit of industry on the Firth of Forth, and of course Longannet on the opposite shore, now that I have been in, I used to photograph the turbines there.
I know this and have seen photos of this becoz, my fiancee's Scottish American friend who was on vacation during the 700 year celebration of Bannockburn , stayed with him, and he drove hm around to show all those. Grangemouth is so right for me, not wanting to stay in a big city .Yes Asda is just right around the corner. The excitement in coming to Scotland is rising up....and there would be 3-4 days/ week for the twa of us for bed and breakfast..touring around.The castles and all of those Lochs and Bens and the rich culture of Caledonia..lovely !
