― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― MaryMary, Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
ally looks so young, in that photo!!!
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I would actually like to go and visit again as an adult. I remember being taken by a child, and not being very impressed by much, except running around chasing my brother screaming and pretending to go at him with a claymore or something. My mum said there was a book where you could look people up to see if any of your ancestors had died there, and she claimed to have found quite a few.
I did like the descriptions in the book of the Highlanders being so terrifying that most of the early battles just involved the loyalists turning around running away. :-)
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Or just say I can't type for the life of me, especially using this mysteriously bouncey keyboard.
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm even more confused now!
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I once heard of a guy at Celtic Park saying "aw naw er Annoni on an aw noo" which is brilliant if you say it quickly.
(trans: Oh no! There's Annoni* on as well now)(*Enrico Annoni: pish Italian defender who was once Celtic's highest earner)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm
It's pure mad n'at huvvin yer ain pairliment n'at ay?
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Even better than "Glaswegian Windoos" or whatever it was called.
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
That makes the linguist in me roll over on my back and waggle my arms and legs in the air with joy!
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Awright troops!
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
(And FWIW, Scots is not just a "Translated for Neds" type dialect - it is actually a separate language, related to Old English/Anglo Saxon but with more Scandinavian influence and less Norman.)
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
There's more linguistic, grammatical and vocabulary evidence - as well as historical - that English and Scots are different languages than, say, Swedish and Norwegian.
x-post, I am such a linguistic pedant, sigh.
― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link