Hi all 😁 Any guesse for this one? If you said duck, you would be correct 👏
Other names for a duck are deuk; also spelt jeuk, and deukie quack in the NE. A long-tailed duck is a coal-an-candlelight, and a golden eye, a gowdie(-duck).
The two below are mire-deuks (mallards).
All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
Hae a guid day 😁
JezB: @smokey 😁 via micro.blog
I forgot to mention that I had a cat named Quacky. It’s spelled differently but I can ‘t imagine the pronunciation is any different. Cool, huh?
smokey: @JezB That’s a lovely pair of quackies 🦆 😃 via micro.blog
My dad’s a Doric speaker, so to him it’s always a deuk! 🙂
Hi! What is a “Doric speaker?” Thanks…
Hi Russell; “Doric” is a regional dialect of Scots, in the North-East of Scotland.
Doric is a particular dialect of the old Scots language, still spoken along the North East coast of Scotland (around Aberdeenshire) 🙂
My wife spoke doric alot when we lived up nr Peterhead. She asks your dad “foos yer doos?”
Aye tyavin awa, fit like yersel? 🙂
We’ve not heard that response; the one we heard the most was “they’re aye peckin”. It’s amazing how a dialect in a relatively small geographic area can have different nuances; thanks for the new reply 😁
I think it depends on whether you take the query literally (‘How are your doves?’) or as a general question of how you’re doing? That’s always been my understanding, but of course I may be wrong! 🙂
Mallards are such pretty ducks, even the female in her brown plumage.
Susan T. Braithwaite 🏴 🏳️🌈: liked this. via twitter.com