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Quackie — Animals in Scots #13

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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).

Mire-deuks by Jez Braithwaite
Mire-deuks

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.

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14 responses to “Quackie — Animals in Scots #13”

  1. jezbraithwaite Avatar
    jezbraithwaite

    JezB: @smokey via micro.blog

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  2. Russell Smith Avatar
    Russell Smith

    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?

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  3. jezbraithwaite Avatar
    jezbraithwaite

    smokey: @JezB That’s a lovely pair of quackies? via micro.blog

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  4. Ruth Avatar
    Ruth

    My dad’s a Doric speaker, so to him it’s always a deuk! 🙂

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    1. Russell Smith Avatar
      Russell Smith

      Hi! What is a “Doric speaker?” Thanks…

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      1. jezbraithwaite Avatar
        jezbraithwaite

        Hi Russell; “Doric” is a regional dialect of Scots, in the North-East of Scotland.

      2. Ruth Avatar
        Ruth

        Doric is a particular dialect of the old Scots language, still spoken along the North East coast of Scotland (around Aberdeenshire) 🙂

    2. jezbraithwaite Avatar
      jezbraithwaite

      My wife spoke doric alot when we lived up nr Peterhead. She asks your dad “foos yer doos?”

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      1. Ruth Avatar
        Ruth

        Aye tyavin awa, fit like yersel? 🙂

      2. jezbraithwaite Avatar
        jezbraithwaite

        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

      3. Ruth Avatar
        Ruth

        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! 🙂

  5. anitashope Avatar
    anitashope

    Mallards are such pretty ducks, even the female in her brown plumage.

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  6. jezbraithwaite Avatar
    jezbraithwaite

    Susan T. Braithwaite?????????: liked this. via twitter.com

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