The differences between Glasgow and Edinburgh are well-documented - especially when it comes to how we use wir words.
While the cities are just 40 miles apart from one another, each has its own distinct dialect that even someone who has never stepped foot in either town can easily detect.
Broadcast on August 5, 1976, as part of the BBC's Word of Mouth series, which sought to trace patterns of speech throughout Britain, the episode 'The Big Yin and the Wee Yin' sees presenter Melvyn Bragg speak to people on both sides of Scotland's great Central Belt divide in a bid to learn more about the varying common tongue.
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Speaking up for Glasgow in this intriguing look at the two dialects are comic Billy Connolly, the poet Tom Leonard, and journalist John Rafferty, while Edinburgh's accent is dissected by theatre producer Sadie Aitken and poet Robert Garioch.
One of the questions the show explores is whether or not the difference between the two cities' way of speaking stems from social and geographical factors. However, the suggestion - as remains popular today - does seem to be that Edinburgh's accent is "posh and snooty" compared to Glasgow's more working class vernacular.
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Billy Connolly notes at the very start of the clip, "A guy once explained it beautifully to me. He said: 'There's more fun at a Glasgow funeral than there was at an Edinburgh wedding'. That really appealed to me - and it's true! You wouldn't believe it."
"They're wee and we're big," says John Rafferty. "And it's always the wee one that resents the big one. We don't have a thing about Edinburgh the way Edinburgh has about us."
In one segment, we are taken to Celtic Park, where the Hoops are set to take on Edinburgh club Hearts. The team include some recorded dialogue from ordinary supporters going to the match, including one particularly funny scene involving a Celtic fan and a mounted police officer.
As the fans head through the turnstiles, the officer, who is on crowd control duties, says: "Good lad, in you get - take yer faither in with you," to which the young male supporter responds: "That's no' ma da'; that's ma wee brar!"
"You can say 'top of the league', 'tap ay the league', 'toap o' the league'," explains the late Glasgow poet Tom Leonard. "There's about 20 different types, and that's even before you get into personal inflection."
While the comments from both sides of the argument are interesting from a historical perspective, the programme, which appeared on screens a full 20 years before the likes of the movie Trainspotting altered the way people view the Edinburgh accent, does seem to stick with the rather simplistic narrative that Glasgow's accent is working class while the capital's residents speak in the classic "Morningside" voice.
It's a view that's long been held by many Glaswegians, and it tends to irk those from Edinburgh's less affluent areas. The programme does little to dispel the notion, either!
"In Edinburgh there's a bit of a feeling of looking down on Glasgow accents," says Ian Gilmour of the English Speaking Union. "But it's more the 'working class', the man on the football terracing sort of accent that they're looking down on."
"People often say, has Edinburgh got a very distinctive accent," explains Sadie Aitken. "Well, it's not a good question to ask a resident, because they're unaware of it.
"But I think a narrowing of vowels would be what distinguishes us from tongues in the west and in the north and in the south."
"Well, it's a kind of strange mixture," says Billy Connolly. "With Edinburgh a sort of clerical city, mainly, you get the posh mixture in with the Fife accent. They say, 'a couple of pehs and a couple ay pints'. It's very strange - I can never make them out".
The short film is available to watch on on YouTube here.
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