I wasn’t sure what to do for a Flower of Scotland Friday post this week, until Love replied to a comment I’d made on one of his posts. Much like when my blog friend Sarah talks about Alabama, I automatically hear that Southern accent in my head, Love heard what I said in the accent of those in the Weegieland (Glasgow) because of Taggart.
I used to watch Taggart when I was wee. Highly inappropriate viewing for a primary school aged child no doubt…those weegies sure are violent! But every time someone was murdered, one of those charming young police officers from Maryhill CID (the Scottish version of City Homicide I guess) would go up to Mark McManus aka Chief Inspector Taggart and say
‘Therr’s been a murrdurr” (There’s been a murder‘)
Annoyingly I have not been able to find a clip from Taggart where they say this, but have found a clip from another show where David Tennant does a spookily good impersonation of it.
One very tedious claim to fame, the last episode of Taggart to be filmed with Mark McManus, the house used for the scene of the murder was my Mum’s friend’s house. The murder was someone who got electrocuted in a swimming pool if I remember correctly…
And although it’s not old school…here’s a wee flavour from 2002
“This isn’t the movies son, this is a murrdurr enquiry!” ahhh…classic…
Taggart is one of our fave shows.
And we regularly roll out the murder line, usually in increasingly ridiculous incarnations of Scottish/Irish/Welsh/Pakistani accents.
As you do.
I like the word Murrdurrerr better than Murrdurr.
My Mum is obsessed with this show, I never saw the fascination myself. I was always an Agatha Christie girly
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Michael Jarrrr-deen was on again las’night. Has it been that long (1994) since the ‘real’ Taggart passed awa?
i didna kno that Glaswegians were kno’n as weegie folk??
Issa bonnie wee accen’ tha’ won.
(Okay – i’ll stop now)
I’m sure the Edinburgh accent is more refined
And i bet you don’t have anywhere near as many murrdurrrs
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