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By *all saulMan
over a year ago
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"Poke of chipsthats english or so I always thought
I looked up the Oxford dictionary. It says it's scottish "
Poke is Scottish surely bag of chips down there same way ask for a butty up here and expect to get roasted |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Think some of these are just local to this area. Teckle, cundee, barkit, glaikit, spuggie. "
Not sure they are local. I'm Dundee and never heard any of them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ever since I passed my test and got my car I can't stop saying jump in the BRIEF
Nope. Nae idea about this one.
Perhaps I'm too old. "
Really? EVer watch still game and the title of the episode is a scottish word or maybe its just glaswegian. But BRIEF is one of them when victor gets a car. |
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"Poke of chipsthats english or so I always thought
If you mentioned a "poke" to an English person, they wouldn't know what you were talking about! " the reason I said this is my scouse family all have pokes of chips where I have a bag of chips this was back in the mid eightys |
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