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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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While speaking away to my Manchester born manager I asked if he was trying to swick me, he’d no idea what it meant
Swick to me means cheat
He’d also never heard of a clootie dumpling or a cloot (Cloth)
Any other phrases you guys have used that completely confuses those you’re talking to? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Haven’t heard those expressions either but love learning new words so thanks. I have a friend who’s Irish but has lived in Scotland for many years, I had to explain to her what oxters were and also torn faced |
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"While speaking away to my Manchester born manager I asked if he was trying to swick me, he’d no idea what it meant
Swick to me means cheat
He’d also never heard of a clootie dumpling or a cloot (Cloth)
Any other phrases you guys have used that completely confuses those you’re talking to? " Ive never heard of Swick either
Nor did I know what baffles were until a couple of years ago lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Are these specific to Angushire? Never heard of them either x"
They must be
Maybe it should be a question of “Does your region have any phrases understood by locals”
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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago
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Yes I’ve heard them all but I’m originally Dundee where there’s a lot of strange words. “A plehn ane n an ingin’ ane an a’ “
I was surprised to read in a paper during the week that “ outwith” - as in “no parking outwith the following hours” - is a Scottish word. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We live near Aberdeen, it's a whole other language up this way!"
Well I’m born Forfar but worked in Aberdeenshire for near a decade dealing with lorry drivers so I’ve maybe picked up a lot from different places too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nut never heard of swick. But heard of cloutie dumpling I mind we made it at high school lol some kind of cloth used if I remember right anyone confirm ??? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nut never heard of swick. But heard of cloutie dumpling I mind we made it at high school lol some kind of cloth used if I remember right anyone confirm ??? "
Yeah the Cloot in Clootie Dumpling is the cloth I can confirm
I’m actually spelling swick wrong it should be Swic or Swik in old Scots |
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"Loused...
I used this the other day in our Teams chat and one of the younger guys thought I was saying I had Hair Lice???
My girlfriend didn't know what it meant either.
Mandy"
I'd have guessed lice as well |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Bit of a google
“Gaelic survived as the spoken language of Angus well into the feudal period, but it was probably superseded by the Scots language by the thirteenth century, at least in lowland Angus.” |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Or as we pass on a sign every day,
Ye May Gang Faur And Fare Waur.
“You may go further and do a lot worse”
Ironic considering it’s on the side of a restaurant that is absolutely disgusting |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car
Wheres the log book??
"Its in the dookit"
What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades "
I can say that as an ex employee of Renault they most definitely have and still do Use to have customers come in saying they had lost it and we’d go check the shelf at the top of the glove box and there it was |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car
Wheres the log book??
"Its in the dookit"
What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades
I can say that as an ex employee of Renault they most definitely have and still do Use to have customers come in saying they had lost it and we’d go check the shelf at the top of the glove box and there it was "
So it was in the dookit |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car
Wheres the log book??
"Its in the dookit"
What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades
I can say that as an ex employee of Renault they most definitely have and still do Use to have customers come in saying they had lost it and we’d go check the shelf at the top of the glove box and there it was
So it was in the dookit "
Deep in the bowls of the Dookit in the secret wee drarr whar it bides Ken |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What about Skite? As in slip?
I think I’m living too far in the sticks now "
I'm originally from Edinburgh and skite was used eg "ye'll skite yer erse oan that ice" was well used as was clootie dumpling for Christmas or New Year. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"What about Skite? As in slip?
I think I’m living too far in the sticks now
I'm originally from Edinburgh and skite was used eg "ye'll skite yer erse oan that ice" was well used as was clootie dumpling for Christmas or New Year. "
Ah we had “I'll skelp yer arse” I think where I am I was it was a Christmas thing
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