From Glasgow: " You parliamo Glasgow? Bus driver learns Polish to teach workmates the local lingo," by Alastar Dalton

It is Glasgow's unique tongue – unintelligible to many native English speakers, let alone the city's burgeoning population of east European immigrants.

Now, a Scottish bus company has taken steps to teach their Polish drivers "the Patter" to help them understand their passengers, in the vein of Stanley Baxter's famous Parliamo Glasgow sketches.



Phrases such as "Geezan aw day tae the toon" (“May I have an all day ticket to town”) and “Wanan'a hauf please" ("One and a child please") are frequently heard on the city's buses. (Read more here.)