Would you Adam and Eve it? A groundbreaking linguistics study has uncovered a generation of Glaswegians who have started to adopt a Cockney accent because of an addiction to EastEnders.
The two-year project found that viewers who had a “strong psychological engagement” with Phil Mitchell or Sharon Rickman, née Watts, were most likely to adopt the verbal tics of their favourite TV soap stars.
Almost a third of the Scottish sample began to adopt Cockney speech patterns, with the dustbin lids (kids) worst affected.
In a city that prides itself on its own distinctive “patter”, these findings might be enough