New words- Times crossword

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Ohh - stop it Allira- you just made me go and get a piece of Christmas cake by power of suggestion 😀😀

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He has now shown me a book called called Jack Speak to prove the points. This could go on for some time, it's quite a thick book.

Ohh - stop it Allira- you just made me go and get a piece of Christmas cake by power of suggestion 😀😀

Scran is also RN term for food, so I've just been informed by he who knows!
As he wandered off with some scran ( coffee and a piece of Christmas cake)

Typed a post then Aw Snap!

A scran bag is a Naval term (RN and RAN). If items eg clothing are left lying around in the Mess then they are collected and put in the scran bag and the owner has to pay a fine to get the item back again.

I play "C!assic Words" on line, which was recommended here on GN. The "droid" has recently started using almost exclusively words I've never heard. There must be an old dictionary which has gone online which these games are finding to include in their puzzles. (Although I realise that the Times crossword is devised by a real human being)

There are two restaurants near me in central Scotland called Scran and one is at the University. It is an old word for food but I rarely hear it spoken.

First came across the word scran when in the WRENS in the very early 70s. In common usage there meaning food, also as in scran bag, a scruffy or untidy person.

Scran is quite commonly used for food around this part of Scotland. At one end of the scale, well-known chef Tom Kitchin had a restaurant in Edinburgh called the Scran and Scallie, while at the other end of the scale, near to us, there is a food van called the Scran Van.

Our friend uses it, he’s from Coventry.

I was in Cumbria recently and noticed a cafe named Scran .

It is Scottish spelt Skran for food, but the use of the ‘c’ is more common . It probably travelled around the port cities as sailors used it.
Around Scotland there are restaurants with Sc(k)ran in their titles.
A recent one I know of is called Swally ‘n Scran. Swally means an alcoholic drink.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it spoken (scran) but I think I’ve read it in a novel - I have a feeling it’s Scottish, so maybe it was an Ian Rankin?

Thanks for that- I did wonder where it came from. Thought it might have been Scottish.

I think it must be quite common in Liverpool. I can remember Paul O’Grady using it a lot.

I remember my father (b1923) using it occasionally, but seldom hear it used these days, so I think it's an old word on its way out rather than a new one!