For Scots Grans (not political!)

Well Marydoll fancy a Paisley Buddie not knowing what a Glesca Keelie is! I remember being taken to Paisley, via a couple of bus rides and the wee Renfrew Ferry across the Clyde, to visit my Godmother there. It felt like a bit of an adventure!

grannyqueenie

Well Marydoll fancy a Paisley Buddie not knowing what a Glesca Keelie is! I remember being taken to Paisley, via a couple of bus rides and the wee Renfrew Ferry across the Clyde, to visit my Godmother there. It felt like a bit of an adventure!

Hand on heart, never heard that phrase. #Bewildered of Paisley.
DH, who live round the corner from me, has heard of it! 😂

70 years ago, we hirpled in Ayrshire (I still do) and referred to the residents of Glasgow as 'Keelies'. Do any former Fifers remember the 'Fifies', the car ferries that plied between Newport and Dundee in the days before the road bridge? When we spent summer holidays with Granny we used to make the trip across the Tay to visit relatives in Broughty Ferry.

annodomini

70 years ago, we hirpled in Ayrshire (I still do) and referred to the residents of Glasgow as 'Keelies'. Do any former Fifers remember the 'Fifies', the car ferries that plied between Newport and Dundee in the days before the road bridge? When we spent summer holidays with Granny we used to make the trip across the Tay to visit relatives in Broughty Ferry.

I was nearly born on one of the Fifies! My mother went into labour on a Sunday when there was a restricted service. She had to get across the Tay to the nursing home in Broughty Ferry and just made it in a state of panic.

Love this! Born in Glasgow, brought up in Lanarkshire and moved to East Lothian 31 years ago. I didn’t know the word Weegie till an Edinburgher (is that the correct spelling?) called me one when I went out to work in Edinburgh! 😂😂

And I thought Beamer was a BMW!

nanna8

And I thought Beamer was a BMW!

A boy would have a beamer, when a girl he liked spoke to him and his pals teased him! 😊

And he'd give them a skelp for that. Big difference between a skelp and a skelf of course.

Its great to enjoy a educational 😉 gentle thread, where everyone is pleasant and there is no animosity.

Love them, especially blathered.

Aveline

And he'd give them a skelp for that. Big difference between a skelp and a skelf of course.

Although both can be painful!

Blondiescot

Aveline

And he'd give them a skelp for that. Big difference between a skelp and a skelf of course.

Although both can be painful!

Imagine getting a skelp on a shelf! Ouch!!

I have remembered another word, hoachin'.
I can't remember what I did yesterday, but these words are flooding back.
My mother used to talk about the midden, rather than the dustbin.
Midden was also used to describe a woman, who didn't keep her self nor her house clean.

Oh Marydoll my room was always a midden. That is a word I have not heard for around 70 years.

I never knew the ferries were called Fifies. I learn something new every day. I would put money on it that some of us have been on a ferry at the same time without knowing it. I loved that trip.

My old boss used to burst into my office and cry 'Its a bourach! A bourach!'. She was a Gaelic speaker of course.

Charleygirl5, my room was always a midden too!

I'm a West Fifer and know all of those Emoji meanings. My personal favourite is "bampot". Throughout his life my dad, when talking about a person who was in declining health, would say "Aye I hae ma doots his coat is on a shoogly nail". Love those old sayings.

I know I saw them also. They’re really good.

Brilliant- as a Scot’s gran , love it 🎉🎉

Love this thread. Have attached photo of tea towel I was given, hopefully you can enlarge and read.

Love them. Used most of those words in my youth.

Visgirl. I am from Kingdom of Fife - St. Andrews. I married an Englishman 40 years ago. And, alas, now no longer live in Scotland. I definitely need these emojis. Plenty words I used in my youth.

That tea towel is 'hoatching' with good words. Best wash it often though. Don't want it to get 'bowfing'.

Pure dead brilliant Aveline!

I'm Edinburgh born and can recall all the words mentioned so far. A few more for you - apologies if some have already been mentioned

Jalouse
High heid yin
Feart
Coorie
Ashet
Jing-bang

I've lived in NE Scotland for many years surrounded by Doric voices - now that's a thread on its own ma quines!