Glesca Patter - Christmas Special

[DavidWW]

There's a need here for some guidance on the very particular pronunciation of Faifley, as it was quite a polite wee place.........

Wullie

How about "th' Fifeli"

"Faif" pronounced Fife - as in county of Fife,
"ley" as in the Li of Lit.

Often seems to be prefixed with "the" - just like its very near neighbour "The Hardgate".

"Fayf-lay" is maybe the correct/polite way, but i'm sure Stew will know the answer!

Jack
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ps - Bob, mair oan Jimmy's life please - he's a great character!

The latter is the I was brought up for to say it

PS The grammatical construction above "...for to.... do something" has a long and correct orthography in Scots, although many wains have had the belt for its use. Interestingly enough it has direct grammatical equivalents in a number of other European languages, including Swedish .... "Jag ska för att göra någonting..."
dww

[StewL]

Fayf-Lay of course we were a right polite bunch of snotterers in Faifley Primary School

I asked my older sister and she confirms it was that way of saying it, although I suppose some would have said Fifely but theres no accounting for lack of education or spoken Scots is there

[Guest]

Tis true there are many mix ups at the registars office we have each found our share.I really feel for those poor blokes though and wonder how they handled it all.Luckily 2 out of the 3 things they registered were ,we would hope happy occasions ,weddings and births.But what of the deaths especially those that happened in sad ways like the death of a father just before a baby's birth or the lose of a mother shortly after.And how did they manage during an epidemic.Could they leave their work at the door when they went home or did a bad day haunt them.I have one fellow that registered the death of my Great Great Granpa's first born child a little girl of 3 from scarlet fever and the very next day had to register the death of his other child a little girl who would have been 2 the next day.I know the family must have been grieving sore as a neighbor (the registar himself)registered the second death.Just shows on the job stress is nothing new.
HK

[Jack]

When my own father died in Dec 1992 a new asst. registrar made 3 mistakes - luckily noticed before it was accepted. The Paisley office at that time had wee pokey cubicles that were as dark as a coal cellar in the blackout.

It's been improved since my sis created merry hell with them. Not just for being so cramped and dark, but because of the very off-hand, couldn't care less attitude of this man - like we were interrupting his tea break, and had better things to do. We got an apology, and we've never seen him in the front office again - maybe he's behind the scenes, got his books, whatever - just as long as he's kept away from the public.
I shudder to think how he'd have treated some wee wifie on her own reporting her late hubby.

Well things couldn't get any worse - could they? Only the cremation to attend; and nothing goes wrong there....

And it didn't! - till the meenister announced the first hymn. The organ went wonky - you'd need to be missing certain parts of your anatomy to have sung that high.
He then went on to say a few words of my father's life. I have only the one sister, so you can imagine all the sideways glances & whispers when he said John was the loving father of two sons (correct) and TWO daughters (very wrong!) - and he didn't even include my sister's name. Another apology received!

Now surely nothing else can go wrong - only to collect mum's ashes and have them put besides dad's. That'll be easily done was the foolish thought. But guess what? The crematorium had lost them.... They searched for months, but they never did find them. Yet another apology!

My parents were good natured folk, and dad had a wicked sense of humour - and just as well too; he certainly needed it at his own funeral!

I know they'll still be laughing upstairs....

Jack