Scots language quiz

7 out of 10 for me as the man said Aye,nae bad for a scouser!

Nellie you mean some you jaloused

5 out of 10 some I knew or inferred others were a complete guess.

7/10 having left Edinburgh as a child. I now understand sleekit wee beastie! I was under the impression that it meant sleek for years.

7/10. Not bad for a sassenach I think.

I didn't get hairst. I'm either well read or I've got too many Scottish friends.

10/10 The ony wan ah dinnae hear aw the time is hairst but I kent whit it meant

Wow! I got 10/10 I've never lived in the country!

Not surprised that folks hadn't come across jalouse before as its use is regional. It is used in the North East and in Ayrshire due to a mass migration of Doric speaking farmers (including Robert Burns's father) after a run of bad harvests. There is/was a small enclave of Doric speakers in Alloa where half of an agricultural engineering factory moved from Huntly to be close to coal and railway. That included my paternal GPs - hence my fluency in Doric although I have always lived in Central Scotland.

My spell checker keeps changing it to jalousie - there it has done it again!

Scots is not a standard language. It has, like English, many regional variations. The words in the quiz are mostly from the Doric, spoken in Aberdeenshire and thereabouts, bearing little resemblance to say Glaswegian.

I only got 7 out of 10 but I have not lived in Scotland since 1968. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it.

"It's " - FF syndrome this morning plus a laptop which keeps feeezing !

It's not jalousie frannyg !!! It jalouse (pronounced, aat least in my neck of the woods "jalooze")

Didn't get hairst or jalousie! I'll remember them know. I love to use totie.

Didn't get hairst. Obviously reading too many hamish Macbeth stories.

9/10. I hadn't come across 'jalouse' before.

It's all over FB, Ariadne. I got 10/10, but then I should!