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You know you're Scottish when........................................

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weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 13:16

1.you kin properly pronounce - McConnochie, Ecclefechan Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, Enoch, Menzies, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.

  1. .Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
  2. ...Ye get four seasons in wan day.
4... Ye canny pass a chip/kebab shop withoot slaverin when yer blootert.
  1. ..Ye kin fall about p_shed withoot spilling yer drink.
  2. ..Ye see people wear shell suits with burberry accessories - pure class!
  3. .....Ye measure distance in minutes.
  4. ..Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him - in yer ain family.
  5. ...Ye go tae Saltcoats cos ye think it is like gaun tae the ocean.
10. ..Ye kin make hael sentences jist wae sweer wurds. 11. .Ye know whit haggis is made fae and stull like eating it. 12. .Somedy ye know his used a fitba schedule tae plan thur wedding day date. 13.. You've been at a wedding and fitba scores are announced in the Church/Chapel. 14. ..Ye urny surprised tae find curries, pizzas, kebabs, fish n chips,irn-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop. 15... Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it. 16.... A big flash car has a ned at the wheel. 17. ..Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure. 18. ..Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums. 19. ...Ye actually understand this. 20. Finally, you are 100% Scottish if you have ever said/heard these words...

a) how's it hingin
b) yourgonnaegetyerfikinheidkiktin
c) clatty
d) boggin
e) cludgie
f) p!shed
g) get it up ye
h) wee beasties
i) ar$e bandit
j) amurny
k) away an bile yer heid
l) peely-wally
m) humphey backit
n) numpty-heid
o) baw bag
p) dubble nugget
1.you kin properly pronounce - McConnochie, Ecclefechan Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, Enoch, Menzies, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.

  1. .Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
  1. ...Ye get four seasons in wan day.

4... Ye canny pass a chip/kebab shop withoot slaverin when yer blootert.

  1. ..Ye kin fall about p_shed withoot spilling yer drink.
  1. ..Ye see people wear shell suits with burberry accessories - pure
class!
  1. .....Ye measure distance in minutes.
  1. ..Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him -
in yer ain family.
  1. ...Ye go tae Saltcoats cos ye think it is like gaun tae the ocean.
  1. ..Ye kin make hael sentences jist wae sweer wurds.

  2. .Ye know whit haggis is made fae and stull like eating it.

  3. .Somedy ye know his used a fitba schedule tae plan thur wedding day date.

13.. You've been at a wedding and fitba scores are announced in the Church/Chapel.

  1. ..Ye urny surprised tae find curries, pizzas, kebabs, fish n chips,irn-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop.

15... Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it.

16.... A big flash car has a ned at the wheel.

  1. ..Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure.

  2. ..Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums.

  3. ...Ye actually understand this.

  4. Finally, you are 100% Scottish if you have ever said/heard these words...

a) how's it hingin
b) yourgonnaegetyerfikinheidkiktin
c) clatty
d) boggin
e) cludgie
f) p!shed
g) get it up ye
h) wee beasties
i) ar$e bandit
j) amurny
k) away an bile yer heid
l) peely-wally
m) humphey backit
n) numpty-heid
o) baw bag
p) dubble nugget

OP posts:
MrsBadger · 18/01/2007 19:49

rowies

oh I miss them

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 20:09

MrsBadger are you scottish too? I didn't realise. You were my knight in shining armour with christmas t-sets!

sweetkitty · 18/01/2007 20:12

mellowma - you and your DH sound scarily like me and my DP, we both got bored of clubbing together, don't think you could ever beat the good old days of the Metro and TTF live on a Saturday night we used to laugh at all the buses coming down from Glasgow to wee Saltcoats

whoops - I thought you were moving up here better pack a brolly and thermals for your trip though it's freezing

slever (spp) theres another one as in "stop slevering over George Clooney!"

whoopsfallenoveragain · 18/01/2007 20:14

Sweetkitty - was wondering about the weather!
Am staying near Strathclyde park but don't think I'll be going for a walk round it!!

MrsBadger · 18/01/2007 20:20

Am decidedly not Scottish but seem to have worked with an inordinate number of scots in my time, and spent a fair bit of time there.

Rowies and Irn-Bru are the best cure in the world for a hnagover when you have to go to work at 7am and it's snowing...

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 20:21

yes, shona, he says 'chore' for steal.

took me a bit to twig what he was on about.

that happened a lot in the early days .

my dad was brill.

i asked him, 'how do you find, DH?'

he said, 'he's allright. i can't understand 75% of what he says, but he's allright.'

oh, that's another edinburgh thing, using 'allright' as a greeting, instead of hello.

that's the other one he uses, 'greetin' instead of crying.

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 20:21

I will be at work by 6.30am and could possibly have a hangover . If you love these things, you have honorary dispensation.

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 20:23

i've gone into work still steamin'!

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 20:25

expat, I forgot you were scottish. I remember you are at the falkirk end of the union canal right? Chorey!!! PMSL, feel like I'm back at school we went out on the chorey for kicks

I often say "I was killing masel laughing" and I think I inherited that from my granny. Most non Scots look at me funny when I say that.

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 20:27

when I say at work, I mean here, alone, 3 kids, inc twins, school run, nursery run, out the door by 8.10am, with a hefty gin dose to see me on my way.........not real work

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 20:29

NO, I am NOT Scottish, although the students are work give me honorary membership for occassionally coming in hung over and correct use of terminology .

I knew I'd arrived when several asked where the studio manager was that day.

I said, w/o thinking, 'Oh, it's so shocking! He was just out the pub, and he got battered by neds.'

And the lone English one asked, 'Translation, please.'

weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 20:31

anyone with me on this one:

when dd is doing something naughty/wrong, I say 'it it it it it it it, no'!

Why can't I just say 'no' without the 'it's'?

OP posts:
MadamePlatypus · 18/01/2007 20:31

I never realised honeybunch was Scottish. I just thought it was the kind of thing that mummies said - but come to think of it my mummy is Scottish.

MadamePlatypus · 18/01/2007 20:34

I think you are Scottish (well maybe from Fife) if you can say "Well but ofcourse in Scotland..." in a particulary superior manner about anything English - food - attitude to weather, Christmas, mispronounciation of words.

pointydog · 18/01/2007 20:42

Mrs Badger? The Style Queen?? From Aberdeen?!!

frumpygrumpy · 18/01/2007 20:54

We Scots, and honorary members, we're as thick as porage . And I mean that in the kinship sense.

MrsBadger · 18/01/2007 20:55

Heavens, no, London born and bred - I sound like the Queen's posh cousin apart from saying 'have you not' instead of 'haven't you' .
Can't get a rowie here for love nor money though...

pointydog · 18/01/2007 21:03

Ah phewee! Yes, I can see you as a posh Londoner. You were going down in my estimation as I tried to imagine a stylish Aberdonian.

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 21:14

Warms my heart to hear DD1 clamour for 'a chippy' in her lovely Edinburgh accent.

A chippy! A chippy!

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 21:44

what is rowie? mrs badger..
you've got me there

and any of you lot a clype?

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 21:45

expat..a chippy is the only thing that warms you in embra this time of year
i used to live in kirk st, fit of the walk

pointydog · 18/01/2007 21:45

revolting buttery flaky greasy roll from aiberdeen and environs

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 21:47

It's a bacon ROLL not a 'butty' or a 'sarny'.

Or a filled roll.

Macdog · 18/01/2007 21:48

'Pokey hat' anyone?
Do you want a poke fur that?

Love the Bud Neill bachles and Lobey Dosser

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 21:50

A poke of chips