― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Grimly, it's truly another dimension up there, I'm sure scholars could unpick the N.Eastern vocab for years and years.
― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
My uncle came out with this one, in Paisley a 'mud' is a fish supper, but only in a sloppy, coming back from the pub half pissed fingers stinking of grease and vinegar, half of it down yer front context.
Ergo a 'mud' sheer poetry!
― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
What about the use of shop for a pub? As in:
Rangers fan #1: "D'ye fancy a drink?"Rangers fan #2: "Aye"Rangers fan #1: "Whit aboot this pub here?"Rangers fan #2: "Naw, don't be daft, that's a Celtic shop!"
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone ever read Luke Sutherland's 'Jelly Roll?'
― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
my dad's from up that way, and the remaining bits of his family are still there; my mum grew up there; one of my best friends is from turriff; and i went out with a girl from [1] keith for two years. yet there's still the odd moment when i can't understand a fucking word the crazy fuckers are saying.
last time i was up that way i found myself in a wee living room with my mum, my dad, my aunt, my uncle and my uncle's bidie-in. i was the tallest there by at least half a head. those who know me IRL will appreciate just how implausible such a situation could be.
[1] or was it "called"?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
"nesh" or "naish" = weedy, feels the cold when it isn't cold, like a soft southerner (ie me or my dad)
"very feeding" - "very tiresome"
"in a paddy" = "in a temper"
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
shropshire: "i doubt that so-and-so" = "i believe that so-and-so"
snigs = small wriggly things in tapwater when the reservoir gets infested
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
when we pointed her towards conventional usage, she said her version made more sense and ours made none, and just carried on
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
my other gran (the one who WASN'T scottish) had two of these AND a china statue of william wallace, which made me wonder if i. this trio wz common (they seemed to be part of a set) (in memory i mean -- it's 30 years since i last saw them) ii. in which case "wally" = transferred epiphet THUS: william wallace and his dogs (in china) = wally's dogs (in china) = china wally's dogs = wally dogs
or maybe my gran = only person ever to have these three items together on a shelf
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 December 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
She also gambles a lot and gets angry at the slot machines when she loses, often striking them with her fist and saying "Damn you machine! Damn you!"
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 December 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Ooh, Hogmanany is also fast approaching, full of great old traditions - first footing with lumps of coal,uttering preposterous phrases like "lang may yer lum reek", that sort of thing.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
STAPPED. As in "He had it stapped in so tight I could barely get it out"
Anyone???
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
(Not strapped, stapped!)
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Heart this thread, revive because the phrase 'yer arse in parsley' just popped into my head.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Sunday, 9 September 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
My mother was ill before Xmas and she tells me that ever since she's "been feelin' like a hauf-shut knife".
― Narayan Superman (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
a face like a well-skelped arse
― ilxors ananimus (onimo), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
these are still well in use, well they were when I last resided in the dear green place :(
my grandfather had a strange catalogue of well-worn phrases that tbh ive never heard anyone say so either very archaic and just a bit pish patter so didn't endure (quite likely) or just some idiosyncratic phrases he liked to hit out wi':
half the lies are never truewhen youre right rich you can shop in Buchanan streettony galenti (rhyming slang for plenty)toffs are careless that was rotten (invariably said immediately after finishing a particularly good meal)
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link
My sister has just mentioned this one, I don't remember it but then I'm the wrong gender:
Granny Grey Hips - someone behaving older than they are.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 10:13 (eight years ago) link
Squeegee (sp?) - crooked, awry
e.g., "Ye'll huv tae hing that paintin' up again, it's aw' squeegee".
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:13 (eight years ago) link
Also, I noticed when I was up last week, when my mum was trying to get an electrician and I had to talk to them on the phone because she's pretty corned beef these days, that people in Scotland still pronounce the letter J as jy.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:18 (eight years ago) link
My Dad used to tell my sister and I to 'stop your greeting' if we were moaning and/or crying. I think this is a Scots thing.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
Was probably fed up with having to deal with pair o' greetin'-faced weans.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link