Author: Photos by Jez
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Icy Leafs and Stem — Flower of the Day Dec 05
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Daily flower— Pink & white rose bouquet
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Gum-flooer — Things in Scots #4
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see her post), and we’ll be posting daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
Keeping with the floral theme, today’s Things in Scots is gum-flooer (artificial flowers).
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?
If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!
Hae a guid day
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Icy Leaf — Flower of the Day Dec 04
Icy Leaf 
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Wordless Wednesday
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Daily flower— Bouquet
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Flooer — Things in Scots #3
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see her post), and we’ll be posting daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
Flooer (flower) is todays Things in Scots. It will be a floral theme for the next few days, so come back for some more flooer related posts! The word flooer can also used for a bunch of flowers, and a bouquet.
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Peace Cairn — Sculpture Saturday
Hi All 👋 Here’s my entry for Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday.
The Peace Cairn by Elspeth Bennie can be found in Bellahouston Park, at the front of the House for an Art Lover. The stone peace cairn was erected for the 1838 Empire Exhibition and has numerous shaped blocks of stone within it, on which are engraved the names of the organisations and clans that attended the exhibition; the very real possibility of war was a deep concern. The modern steel globe a top the cairn was added in July 2004 and features ‘Peace’ in differnt languages. We have three words for ‘Peace’ in Scots: pace, lown, saucht.
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Some of the Many — Monday Window Dec 02
Hi All 👋 Some of the Many (of the windows of Callendar House) is my entry for Ludvig’s Monday Window challenge. Make sure to get over to his blog for more window-centric posts.
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