Accent Change in Glaswegian: Final report
Annexe 6: Media coverage
The project and its results have generated the following media items (copies of newspaper articles
are attached):
- feature in 'Newshour', BBC World Service (19.7.00)
- news report for Reporting Scotland (BBC) (19.7.00)
- 'Nae bovver', The Guardian (18.7.00)
- 'Television soaps eroding Glesca speak', East End Independent (6.7.00)
- 'Wot's up with the patter my son? The Last Word', Sunday Times (2.7.00)
- 'Glaswegian tainted by the strains of Sarf Lunnun', The Independent (28.6.00)
- 'Bad language crosses the Border', The Glasgow Herald (28.6.00)
- 'Cockneys are killing off the Scots accent', Metro Scotland (28.6.00)
- 'Soaps erode Scots accent' & cartoon, The Press and Journal, Aberdeen (28.6.00)
- 'Leave it out, by the way: kids talking Cockney', The Mirror (27.6.00)
- 'Talkin' Jockney - Scots youngsters' language is changed by EastEnders', Daily Record (27.6.00)
- feature in 'The Scottish Connection', BBC Radio Scotland (24.2.99)
- news report for 'Drive Time', BBC Radio Essex (19.2.99)
- news report for BBC Radio 5 Live (19.2.99)
- feature on 'Britain Today', BBC World Service (19.2.99)
- 'Could Glesga' drown in the English Estuary?', The Times (19.2.99)
- 'It's an awfy scunner if oor patter's in tatters', Daily Record (19.2.99)
- news report for STV (18.2.99)
- 'Glaswegian tongue to get a check-up, so to speak, an at', The Scotsman (18.2.99)
- 'Estuary English sweeps north', Leading Edge, University of Glasgow (June 2000)
Please note that while the Leverhulme Trust was emphasized as the funder of the research in all interviews with the press, very few reporters included this information.