For Scots Grans (not political!)

I love this thread, thank you all who have contributed.
It's a delight to read this thread, no animosity at all.

I like ‘rammy’ , which I think is just Scottish, to mean an uproar, and I use it quite often.
My two English grandsons laugh at my speech often, and like to imitate me. I hadn’t realised I used ‘wee’ quite so much.
My Dad was from Fife and my Mum from Perthshire so I know most of the words on this thread but only use a few now.

A favourite saying of my mother's, when talking about a troublesome neighbour, was: She would cause a rammy in an empty hoose!.

Marydoll

I love this thread, thank you all who have contributed.
It's a delight to read this thread, no animosity at all.

It's been a delight, hasn't it?

Hmmm. Time for a rammy maybe!

Aveline

Hmmm. Time for a rammy maybe!

Or a stooshie? 😉

A stairheid rammy! 😂

Windae Hingers

Wi hud sum windae hingers
up an doon oor street.
Thae hud the sherpest eyes
ye iver chanst tae meet.

Yir ba had hut the tiles
didnae reach thi chimnae.
Thae swore blind it did
but you new thit it didnae.

Ye couldnae play at fitba
thae wantid tae referee.
A seen that ya we beggar
ye kicked him oan thi nee.

Guan to wurk in thi mornin
ye'd wauped a bottle o'milk.
Thae hud ye doon as scarface
oar wan o' thit kind o'ilk.

Thae hud thir uses anaw ye ken
as thi neibourhood childminders.
Ye'd be better aff in Barrlinnie
as jailers thae played a blinder.

KIT DUDDY

From Bud Neil, Portrait of Mrs Thomson opening the Toonheid windae hingin’ season.

Away Marydoll yer bums oot the windae!

Aveline

Away Marydoll yer bums oot the windae!

It's never been in and it is not a pretty sight.

Ah ken.

Oh and while yer hingi’ oot that windae, “see us a jeelie piece” marydoll or aveline!

We’ve all been “gein’ it laldy” on this thread!

Oh, the 'jeely piece song'!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTX0kKCSEY

It is amazing what so many of us have dredged up and I have not set foot in Scotland since 1979 and never will again. I lived there from birth to early 20's.

Do other parts of the UK have such varied vocabularies? It can't be just us.

You’re right Charleygirl it is amazing, I left Glasgow in 1969 yet all these words and phrases, many of which I’ve not used or heard in years, are all tucked away in the back of my mind. Just don’t expect me to remember what I did yesterday or what I’m supposed to be doing tomorrow!!