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Tag: Things in Scots

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Rimie Moose Wab — Things in Scots #1

    Rimie Moose Wab — Things in Scots #1

    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?).

    And without further ado, Things in Scots #1 is a rimie moose wab (frosty spider’s web). We’d had quite a hard frost with freezing fog, so naturally it was camera time. There are other words for frost: freest, ringin frost (hard, prolonged), jeel (frostiness), shairp, cog (frost nail), nip-nebs (best name ever for Jack Frost), garb (thin coating of frost). There are also names for hoar frost: haar freest, cranreuch and rind.

    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