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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:
suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 21:53

my mum and dad pokey hat mad

and we say about embra folks, they greet you with
'well, you'll have had your tea! then hen'
lol
i never got 'barry'
and i notice alot 'its a sin' when its no such thing ...

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 21:53

and the roll will be well-fired here please

MrsBadger · 18/01/2007 21:54

it's like a flat croissant - all buttery and flaky - only it's salty and made with lard.
Toasted with jam they are the food of the gods.

[drools]

pointydog · 18/01/2007 21:56

and your fingers leave greasy stains on everything for two hours afterwards. You cannot shift that amount of lard for love nor money

Macdog · 18/01/2007 21:56

Lobey Dosser here

Aberdeen is Furryboots City - "Furryboots are ye fae yersel' then"
Fit like the day?

Macdog · 18/01/2007 21:57

You know you're scottish when you judge the quality of a pie by how near to your elbow the grease gets

weepootleflump · 18/01/2007 22:01

I used to go to the sweet shop and ask for a '10p poke please mister'

OP posts:
expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 22:07

Our doorman calls them 'bridies'.

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 22:13

mrs badger, we call them butteries, sometimes aberdeen butteries and yep i love em, but just w/MORE butter on!
rowies, whits that?! they are butteries!

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 22:15

macdog
nice link will explore later have book, my dad loved him, its rare iykwim

MrsBadger · 18/01/2007 22:15

you see this is the trouble with using dialect from all over the place - round here a buttery is a canteen or a cafteria...

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 22:17

a bridie has meat in it, like a sausage roll but, er a bridie! different shape

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 22:18

I meant bridie = pie.

Not those mingin' butteries.

Those are bowfin'.

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 22:19

all the luminous cake displays in scotland

doughnuts with nuclear yellow icing and green dobs of decoration..
and they all get eaten
scottish savouries are pretty much the business but the cakes, yuk they can glow sometimes

...apart from strawberry tarts..they are just the bees knees!

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 22:22

My dad absolutely loves all this greasy foods.

First time he came to our new place, he says, 'I'm going for a walk' and came back w/a huge bag from Gregg's!

'Look! I found regular donuts and pan de dulce!' (sweet breads in the Mexican sense of the term)

It was, ironically enough, a Mexican American who fed DD1, his granddaughter, her first sausage roll in her buggy.

They both came back grinning ear to ear.

singsalot · 18/01/2007 22:25

any dundonians here

think they have some classic chat

translate "E e' i' a'" anyone?

singsalot · 18/01/2007 22:27

tablet, the perfect bar of sugar

the best I have had is from dalbeattie, cannae remember the name of the maker....

myturn · 18/01/2007 22:29

There is nothing quite like tablet straight out of the oven....

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 22:29

Oh god.

A vendor at the farmer's market fed DD1 a nibble of tablet.

Her big green eyes lit up.

'Ooo, I like tablet!'

I'll bet you do, you daughter of Scotland.

Yuk.

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 22:33

does anyone say 'cunty-baws'?
dp says its scottish but i think it was just his pal that said this!
interesting thread lol guys..

saltire · 18/01/2007 22:33

Now i am Scottish, but whne i had DS1 in Elgin, i was going back to my room and a midwife stopped me and asked
"Did you have a looney or a quiynie".
I just looked at her and said
"Neither, i had a wee boy". I found out later that looney is boy and quiynie is girl. They aren't words used in the southern uplands!.
Does anyone else say "how no?" ?
I was with a couple, one from dunfermline, one from Paisley nad a girl from newcastle, we were talking and saying how we use phrases which don't make sense grammatically, eg "How no". Or my cousin in Glasgows favourite "but". As in
"I'm going to the shops but" . But what, but you will wait till it stops raining,but you have no money?

zephyrcat · 18/01/2007 22:36

Does anyone know 'The Portree Kid'? I had the whole song memorised when I was about 10 years old and have never forgotten it!!

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2007 22:36

tablet...god havent had that in years..when it melts its heavenly but way toooooo sweet for me now...work of the devil / dentist..

my mum occasionally made treacle toffee,,,the smell heaven...

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 22:38

DH, 'I'll no' be long, likes'.

Sorry, but I didn't understand FA of that when I first got here.

In fact, I got off the bus at the wrong stop, and I rang him on his mobile.

And he tried to give me directions, but I couldn't understand him and he had to come get me .

bandstand · 18/01/2007 22:38

i had to get my man to translate! funny thought not read reast of it mind