Scottish Grans Only

I once heard this song at a burns night, explains it all beautifully

www.scotssangsfurschools.com/isadoveadooda.htm

Meanwhile, over on Facebook just now is a post showing you how to sign in Scots!

Yes Katek...saw them in His Majesties too!!

@* volver* - have you listened to the Flying Pigs? One of them is John Hardie, son of Buff, and they are very funny indeed. Material is along same lines as ‘Scotland the What’. I posted a link to their Caledonia Bank sketch somewhere recently, well worth a listen. (Forget my link just Google!)

The German for cold water is kaltes wasser, very similar to cald watter. I don’t speak German but noticed that when watching a subtitled German programme.

I use it dotted throughout my language, sometimes to the point of surprising myself as I become aware of the blank looks of those I'm talking to! My family all came from Glasgow but my mother was of the ilk that tried to get me to speak 'The Queen's English' as did the schools. My Granny and my peers however, kept me on the Scots track. I use and teach Scots words with my little GD now.

Wheniwasyourage

Doric around here. I'm from the west, so not a native speaker, but frequently find myself in a bilingual conversation with me using (mostly but by no means all) standard English words and my companion speaking Doric. It works.

Did anyone else enjoy "Scotland the What?"?

They were inspired.

I saw them at His Majesty's many years ago and laughed so much I could hardly stand.

This still makes me laugh. The hoovering. ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqnX0gmbi_U

There are many near identical words between Norwegian and Scots/English - days of the week, months of the year for example. My Dh was in Stavanger a few years ago and came across an empty shop with a notice in the window. It read “Flitted til” and a different address. That’s exactly what would be said in NE Scotland and ‘flitted’ on its own is pretty universal in Scotland . He also found out that the Dutch for string/rope is ‘tow’- same as here.

Doric around here. I'm from the west, so not a native speaker, but frequently find myself in a bilingual conversation with me using (mostly but by no means all) standard English words and my companion speaking Doric. It works.

Did anyone else enjoy "Scotland the What?"?

Grantmabatty ?? Det är bra.

Volver I meant Scandinavian countries as well as Baltic. There's such a proven link between Scots and Norway too. Maremia I never thought to look at the subtitles.

Scunnered, thole and eejit are part of our normal vocabulary, and we are not Scottish!

We sang lots of Scots songs in the car going on holiday but the favourite was always Ye cannae shove yer Grannie of a bus!!

I remember our first posting in Scotland, having come from Berlin where we spoke English/German/American.
Was posted in Dunkeld, went to school in Perth, and could not understand a word anybody said to me.
Spent more time bunking off school in the 12 weeks we were there than I did in the rest of my school days.
People must have thought I was either deaf or stupid.

I tend not to use Scots words as I live in England and married to an Englishman…but when I’m on the phone to relatives in Scotland…I seem to slip back into the dialect!

My DD is Scottish so
I’m half !
Once up in Scotland for a long weekend we were renting part of a house with our own kitchen - I went to ask for a Saucepan (to hear some Soup) and no one could understand my ‘English’ accent?

I'm not Scottish but Northern Irish where so many of our collo are Ulster Scots or translated from Irish. We lived in England for years but often found there just wasn't a suitable word in standard English. eg eeejit is often the perfect way to describe someone and it's not the same as idiot which is more offensive. Our DIL is Scottish living in London and she finds the same. I sometimes found, when living in England, that I'd use a word not realising it wasn't standard English to find I'd completely confused the listener.

Grandmabatty, when you watch Scandi Noir films, with subtitles rather than dubbing, you will soon pick out that they use 'braw' as we do.

Grandmabatty

I find the links with Baltic countries even more interesting. The Icelandic word for a vacuum cleaner is a stoorsooker. ? It isn't spelt that way but pronounced like that.

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And Scandanavia, Grandmabatty. In the NE, a girl/woman is a quine. The Swedish word for woman is qvinna

That's really interesting Elegran, thank you.

Here's a poem by our current Makar, Kathleen Jamie. I've posted it before but I just love it. It's got Scots words in it.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/here-lies-our-land/

I mean the links with Scots and Baltic countries

I find the links with Baltic countries even more interesting. The Icelandic word for a vacuum cleaner is a stoorsooker. ? It isn't spelt that way but pronounced like that.

No reason that Nicola or any Scot living in the lowlands south of the Highland Line should be expected to have the Gaelic. Most of that area, particularly the Eastern side, spoke Middle Scots, which was very similar to Middle English. As far back as Geoffrey Chaucer's time (the Canterbury Tales were written between 1387 and 1400) there was a thriving exchange of poems and stories between writers and makars in both languages, the Scottish makars being known even today as the "Scottish Chaucerians" Gaelic was the language of the North and West.
(A list of makars mentioned by poet William Dunbar in c.1505 is at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_for_the_Makaris )

I had to have a wee read of your words and phrases. I know an odd one with being N.Irish and listening to friends who love the Ulster Scots. Brilliant!

It's also chillier, but we can't have everything.