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  • Rimie Jennie Nettle — Things in Scots #6 and Flower of the Day Dec 06

    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?).

    Todays post is a 2fer, linking up withCee’s Flower of the Day and keeping my series of frosty posts going.

    Rimie jennie nettle (frosty stinging nettle); also known as a jaggie nettle or jobbie nettle.

    Rimie jaggie nettles
    Rimie jaggie nettles
    Rimie jaggie nettles in noir by Jez Braithwaite
    Rimie jaggie nettles in noir

    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

  • Pig — Things in Scots #5

    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?).

    If you were thinking of the four legged animal that bacon (mmmm, bacon) comes from; sorry, nope! That would be a grumphieA pig is a vase, also known as vawse. In this case we have gum-flooers in a pig!

    Pig/flooer vawse (flower vase) by Jez Braithwaite
    Pig/flooer vawse (flower vase)

    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

  • Icy Leafs and Stem — Flower of the Day Dec 05

    Icy leafs & stem
    Icy leafs & stem
    Icy leafs & stem in mono by Jez Braithwaite
    Icy leafs & stem in mono
  • Gum-flooer — Things in Scots #4

    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

  • Icy Leaf — Flower of the Day Dec 04

    Icy Leaf
    Icy Leaf in noir by Jez Braithwaite
    Icy Leaf in noir
  • Flooer — Things in Scots #3

    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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  • Icy Rhododendron Leafs — Flower of the Day Dec 3

    Icy rhododendron leafs by Jez Braithwaite
    Icy rhododendron leafs
    Icy rhododendron leafs in B&W by Jez Braithwaite
    Icy rhododendron leafs in B&W

  • Frost Edged Leafs — Flower of the Day Dec 02

    Frost edged leafs by Jez Braithwaite
    Frost edged leafs
    Frost edged leafs in B&W

  • Puddock Stuil — Things in Scots #2

    Puddock Stuil — Things in Scots #2

    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?).

    Puddock stuil (mushroom) is today’s Things in Scots; or puidock steel in the north east.

    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