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Tag: Scots

  • Yule — Things in Scots #21

    Yule — Things in Scots #21

    Happy holidays and seasons greetings to those that observe & happy Wednesday to all; hope you are all having a great time

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Yule is today’s Things in Scots. Below are a few pics from Glasgow and some of the decorations. A few of the shots are from the European Christmas Market outside the St Enoch Centre (hopefully we’ll see them again next year!). Make sure you get on over to Susan’s site for a wee bit of a history of Yule post.

    Best wishes to all and we’ll be back again for Hogmanay

    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

  • Cannle– Things in Scots #20

    Cannle– Things in Scots #20

    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 and hear her post).

    With December drawing to a close and a few long days at work in the offing, the posting will be somewhat irregular over the next couple of weeks. As we have enjoyed the challenge so much, we will be carrying on in the New Year, but with a weekly (mostly) post instead of daily.

    And onto the latest, cannle (candle) is today’s Things in Scots; also know as a caunle.

    Cannle by Jez Braithwaite
    Cannle
    Cannle

    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

  • Whigmaleerie — Things in Scots #19

    Whigmaleerie — Things in Scots #19

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    A festive one today; whigmaleerie (bauble) is today’s Things in Scots. Up in the north-east, they have an even better name: flumgummerie

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  • Fleet Dyke — Things in Scots #18

    Fleet Dyke — Things in Scots #18

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Fleet dyke (breakwater) is today’s Things in Scots.

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  • Breeks — Things in Scots #17

    Breeks — Things in Scots #17

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Breeks (fork of a tree) is today’s Things in Scots. Also known as a glack, cloff and bouchtie.

    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

  • Harebell — Things in Scots #16

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Harebell (bluebell) is today’s Things in Scots; also known as blawort, blaver and my favourite — gowks thimmles!

    Harebells by Jez Braithwaite
    Harebells

    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

  • Whuskie — Things in Scots #15

    Whuskie — Things in Scots #15

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Today’s is quite an easy one; whuskie – whisky. Whisky has many different names in Scots: fuskie (north-east) bree, barley-bree, John Barleycorn, the hard (stuff), the stuffie, the craitur, the mercies, wheich, usquebae, aquavita, mountain dew; cheap, inferior whisky is referred to as speel-the-wa; cheap, strong and raw as kill-the-cairter.

    Whuskie by Jez Braithwaite
    Whuskie

    A measure of whuskie is known as a dram, or a hauf; a small measure is a wee hauf (not spoken of in this hoose).

    And below is a dram, hooker, cauker, roostie nail or wee goldie (glass of whisky). The very fine example within the glass this time is The Ardmore Legacy

    Slainte!

    Wee goldie by Jez Braithwaite
    Wee goldie

    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

  • Eeshogel — Things in Scots #14 and A Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby

    Eeshogel — Things in Scots #14 and A Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    A 2fer today; Eeshogel (icicle) is today’s Things in Scots as well as my entry for Nancy Merrill’s Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby. Other words for icicle are ice-tangle, shockle, and bobantilter in Caithness.

    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

  • Bink — Things in Scots #13

    Bink — Things in Scots #13

    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 and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Bink (bench) is today’s Things in Scots. Also known as a binch, furm or firm. A bench made of turf is a sunk, a smalll bench is a sunkie and a long wooden bench with a chest below is a lang-settle.

    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