Is the Glasgow accent being levelled out by London? Dinnae be daft | Jane Stuart Smith

Predictions that this Scottish dialect would be homogenised by TV and population movement have been confounded by University of Glasgow research

The city of Glasgow has a very distinctive dialect and accent. Its famous incomprehensibility has even been demonstrated in a lab experiment, and is seemingly consistent over time. The glottal stop, where "t" sounds get dropped, was common currency well before the 20th century, as can be seen from these observations by a visitor to the city written in 1892:

Strangers hurl at us a sort of shibboleth such sentences as "pass the wa'er bo'le, Mr Pa'erson"