Do you know what is meant by 'she does heehaw?'

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Said this about a particularly lazy colleague today and had my immediate neighbour in tears laughing at it!

I'm Scottish and she's English, she claims never to have heard it before!

Pan loaf-posh.

Love it. Heehaw is very evocative. Use it from time to time.

I am from the Frozen North where we say things like "dinnae fash" and call our partners, with whom we live In Sin, our "bidie inns", via Dundee - land of no consonants.

I now live in Glasgow and confuse people by referring to roundabouts as circles but I can't seem to stop doing it!

Does anyone remember the Maisie the Cat books set in Morningside?

“Posh, pernickety, pan loaf Mrs McKitty”

My lovely Grannie could send up a Morningsaide accent better than anyone I know! (She lived there but wasn’t one of them)

Morningside, where sex and six sounds the same...

AsAProfessionalFekko and cat’s bum faces all round when the two are confused! Am howling now

YeTalkShiteHen YES

This cat is called Maisie and I named her after my fave children's book character

I vividly remember my grandma taking me to the Edinburgh book festival, where the author was doing a reading. I shyly queued up to get her to sign my copy of Maisie and the Posties and she was super nice to me.

And to think they say you should never meet your heroes!

I went to that one too! Aileen Paterson, she was bloody lovely. She died recently I think, what a wonderful legacy she leaves!

Ooh your Maisie is gorgeous

Anyone remember Victor and Barry? One was Alan Cumming. The did very funny stuff and I have a cassette (!) of them with a song about Kelvinside.
'I get fish from a ven(van), I'm a Kelvinside men(man)'

I have Never heard the ‘Big Light’ in my 47 years. What the actual jeff are you lot on about?
I lived in Glasgae for three years and for the first three months couldn’t understand a single word anyone said to me. I understand everything else. Big Light? Wtf?

Damn I'll have to namechange. Aileen Paterson was my mum. She did indeed die in March. She would have been thrilled to bits to have people remember her books, name their cats after Maisie and say they loved meeting her at the Book Festival.

StellaCorona I’m so sorry about your Mum, I lost my Mum last year and it’s hard.

For what it’s worth from a random on the internet, your lovely Mum's books were a lovely part of my childhood, and my bairns too!

We spent a lovely day marching round the Botanics for DS1s 4th birthday looking for Maisie and Archie!

The 'big light' =the main ceiling light in the sitting room/lounge/drawing room.

I said lovely far too many times then

But it’s an apt word. For your Mum and for her wonderfully written books which mean so much to so many people.

Scottish DH and I've lived in Edinburgh for almost 20 years.

Chumming as a verb is my favourite bit of Scottish vernacular. As in "I'm going to the shops for the messages, do you want to chum me?" It's even spreading to my English family now..

That and glaikit because our dog - who gets clapped often - completely epitomises glaikit.

Sorry about the slight thread derail.
Thank you so much YeTalkShiteHelen and caoraich for your Lovely! words. Mother would honestly have been tickled to bits to hear she'd been mentioned. She absolutely adored hearing about fans.

Aww no YeTalkShiteHen I didn't realise

I'm 36weeks pregnant and have been reading the Maisie books retrieved from my mum's loft to unborn baby (slightly mad I know but I figure you're meant to read to the bump and I might as well read something that makes me smile!) - now it will seem all the more poignant - I will give my Maisie some extra pats!

She has left me with a random smattering of Edinburgh-ese with which to confuse people with

Oh StellaCorona I just saw your post. I'm so sorry about your mum. She was a lovely lady and was the earliest memory I have of Edinburgh. Her books were truly lovely and I'm so glad my mum kept them all so I can read them to my wee one too xxx

StellaCorona I’m so glad to have been able to tell you, hopefully it’s made you smile and I’m sure there are many, many people who feel the same way.

caoraich I read to mine too, and sang to them (badly) I’m a now transplanted Edinbugger in the west so I frequently confuse people

I swear because of my godawful singing while they were in my belly that’s why DD would only settle to a rousing chorus of “Willie Maley” until she was about 1!

Congratulations

StellaCorona your mum's books were lovely, your posts have brought a wee tear to my eye, so as revenge I'm leaving a very un-mumsnetty x for you

Love this thread.

I'll add "big light" to my list of words I use all the time that I didn't know were Scottish.

I'm a southerner, but my mum was born and raised in Scotland and my paternal granny (who lived with us when I was child) was Ulster Scots.

I love that after 43 years I can still occasionally learn another "Scottish" word that I've existed until now thinking was just the normal thing you say.

(Only this summer on holiday, I said to DH of 14 years that I wasn't very hungry so would he just get a poke of chips for me. Face of utter bafflement. "Poke?" Apparently it's a Scottish thing. Who knew? Mortifying, too, that it must be the first time in 14 years I haven't been a greedy swine and ordered a fish supper :-))

StellaCorona so sorry about your mum

Another Maisie fan here, particularly Maisie Comes to Morningside .. I have happy memories of reading it to DD who is in her thirties now.

Lovely gentle humorous stories which, along with Katie Morag, helped my kids keep in touch with their Scottish heritage even when we weren't living there.

Your mum did a great job.

Just skimmed the thread and don't think anyone has mentioned one of my favourite Scottish words - and one for which there isn't a single English word.

To thole something (or should that be ?)

I love using it and have taught many an English person its usage.

I like outwith too

I too talk about the Big Light, someone's bidie in, going for the messages and ask where people stay.

One that caught me out when I was working down South as I thought it was "standard" English was "up the way" and "down the way" (eg "the graph was going up the way")

Yes but I'm Scottish too

Ah I love Katie Morag! Especially the one with the sheep competition where Granny Island nicks all Granny Mainland’s beauty products to do up the sheep

Huh. Thanks muddling. I don’t have one Clearly haven’t needed to develop that bit of vocabulary!!!