Words Scots use

When we first moved from Edinburgh to Oxford, my DDs had Scottish accents. DD1 was five and started at a new school. The other kids would get her to say girl and world and similar words. They loved the rich r sounds that almost made the words two-syllabic

It was interesting to witness the change in their accents as the years went by. The vowel differences were the either the first to go or the last. I can't remember now.

When my DD and family first moved to Argyll, one of the first things my DGD, age 6, had to do was learn a poem in Scots dialect for a competition that the schools were running. She learned the poem, but was at a distinct disadvantage, being the new girl, and English to boot! The first line of the poem was, "My mother thinks that we hae mice, that can open air ticht tins.

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My SO is Flemish and is often surprised when i say somthing and he uses the same word.
The most used one is Kirk for Church, same in both Scotland and Flanders.

When I first came to Scotland with my parents, we lived in Kirkcaldy and I went to school there - it was a steep learning curve.

I have lived in London for too long me thinks.Elegran I come from Cupar Fife.

My grandmother lived in Kirkcaldy and it was difficult to understand a word that she said if one was not a Fifer.

I say "spelk" for splinter too MiniMouse and pinkprincess Haway the lads !

I had a Scottish neighbour many years ago who used to say "I'll give yer a chap in the morning"

(sadly she wasn't helping me find an new man, she was giving me a knock on the door)

D'ye come frae Fife? Gie'ss yer hond.
Ye come frae Cupar! Gie'ss yer twa hond.

I'm a scot. But lived south of the border for many a year now. My DH used to pull me up when I used a lot of Scottish words he used to say 'talking broonish again'. I probably use less + less now. But still use skelf for splinter and stank for drain. I also say smir for drizzle not sure if that was just word my gran used and gamp for umberella.

It is a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.

Cumon ye get aff ma bus

Did ye get a lumber the nicht?

Kin ah see ye hame?

Whaur ye gaun?

Am urnay! Am ur! Ahv telt ye and ye urnay.

Yur bidin ben the room the nicht.

Thurs hee haw in the press!

Just a wee few examples.

I am a Geordie and have always called splinters spelks.
Like a previous poster mentioned, I can remember getting a spelk in my finger as a child and my grandmother getting it out with a sewing needle sterilised in a flame.

lads and lasses here. And everyone is addressed as "man"- "Howay, man"
I remember boggarts. And
'From ghosties and ghoulies, long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us."

It's quines & loons up here. (girls & boys)

And boggarts! (my Yorkshire grandma was fond of telling stories about them...)

Snickets in Yorkshire (alleyways)
Much use of Aye, lass and lad as well.Or there used to be years ago when I lived there.

Spells in Yorkshire (splinter.)

It was a spelk in north Cumberland too. I suppose where I lived it was only 13 miles to the Scottish border, and 11 miles to Northumberland, a lot of the dialect words were the same or very similar.

It was a spale. Thanks

Remember stoor, in Dutch is a stoorsucker. Hoover in modern parlance

Also tawse or Lochgelly,

My OH calls splinters 'spelk' (Geordie)

We called splinters spells in Lancs and Yorks. I expect it's the same word as the Scottish spail.

Oh and if we were naughty we were threatened with a good 'skelping' which was, if I remember correctly, was never carried out.

We used to get skelfs which mum winkled out with a needle sterilised in the gas flame. Can't say I know all those words for snow - suspect a Scandinavian derivation for many of them, especially if they begin with 'sk'. That thesaurus is a 'must'!

I will send that link to DD she moved over the border 4 mths ago and immediately started saying aye (sp) and some Scottish phrases

I thought skelf was a splinter too-other word I know for splinter is a spail/spale

I suppose certain words are area specific.

I remember using 'skelf' for a splinter, but someone from the Borders used a different word, which I have forgotten, and as for the fishermen frae Aberdeen, their language was a total mystery.

They used to come through the Caledonian Canal!

Love the work perjink

I read that among the 421 Scots words for snow is " "skelf" (a large snowflake)." I have never heard that - a skelf is a splinter. I suppose a large snowflake has a certain vague similarity to a splinter, but still . . .