Hi all π and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (β follow this link to see her post), and we’ll be posting daily — Things in Scots (great title eh? π).
Most people are probably pretty familiar with the dog-hip (rosehip) from their childhood, either as missiles or as nature’s itching powder π They are also known as doggies’ hip, hap, buckie and choop; the plural is hippans.
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.
As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes βΊοΈ
If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything π€, please let us know!
Hae a guid day π
JezB: @johnjohnston Thanks, John π I love that people all have similar experiences, but with slightly different terminology! via micro.blog
I once had a dog called Boxer….he was a hip dog π
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Is there a Scottish word for haggis or is that the Scottish word for it.
Haggis is the Scots word, Anne π When I was writing my last Animals in Scots (https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2019/11/30/haggis-animals-in-scots-29/)post, I looked up haggis in a variety of different languages, and it is just haggis!
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johnjohnston: @JezB interesting Iβve heard none of those names! I have hear the flowers called dog roses. In my 60s childhood we used to gather them for a little cash, they were made into rose-hip syrup. The kids in my class now call then itchy-bums. via micro.blog