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!

jingles just had the coke / juice conversation with my DH for the millionth time because it makes me laugh and it makes him indignant. Even after 3 years in Glesga I still don't have a clue what's going on around me most of the time.

yetalkshite do you think we've got any other takers for Mumsnet Emerald here?

Living in a Victorian house, we still have 2 presses. A 3rd one got blocked up when ironically we moved the kitchen to a bigger room and it was in the way of where we wanted to put the units.

I'm Glaswegian and know "to coorie in"

Is "whirly gig" Scottish?

What do the English call them?

prettybird just had that conversation with DH too, but had to admit I have no idea what the English call them. Rotary washing line seems rather formal!

@Lovelylovelyllamas that would be brilliant! I can see the banner now

Any takers?

Diluting juice here too, fizzy juice is just juice and fruit juice is whatever fruit it is with juice on the end.

I knew whirly gig was Scottish but what do they actually call them elsewhere? Whirly gig is the perfect name.

Ooh what about Winter Dyke? Is that just up here🤔

Norn Irish joke...
" wee Sally's had her wain"
"What's she called him?"
"Nathan"
"She must ha called him sumthin"

Silver coins in the pram is a normal tradition in my part of England too (midlands), as is beat it, big light and several others mentioned on here.

We're hoping to move to Scotland. I might bookmark this thread as a translation guide.

SunflowerSally

It's a whirly gig here in England too.

Winter dyke is one I use, but DP looked confused when I said it. It’s funny because we both grew up on the east coast (me Edinburgh, him Angus) and even we have major differences!

Whenever I get in a taxi they always say “oh you’re not from round here are you?”

Outwith is used in England too, particularly in legal speak. We don't use it to mean outside in a geographical sense necessarily, but do use it.

Yes to diluting juice.. diluting orange etc. Fizzy juice and fizzy water.
We also say toast on cheese and toast on jam.. that could well just be our house though? English auntie gave us a row for not saying toast with cheese or at least cheese on toast. Is my family just weird?!

1. The parting in my hair is a score.

1. I say diluting juice.

1. ‘Coorie in’ was standard when I was growing up.

Last week I passed a message to my boss and she said ‘she can away and fling shite at hersel’. I bloody loved that

Is 'roasted cheese' Scottish or country wide?

I think roasted cheese is Scottish isn’t it? Even west Scottish?

Away and fling shite at the moon is a good one!

Ye can run up ma ribs is another

Has no-one mentioned that legitimate measurement of length, ‘bawhair’?? As in ‘I was within a bawhair of decking him’

That truly is a uniquely Scottish unit of measurement!

Some sage advice I was given by my Mum’s friend was “dinnae let anybody get you by the short and curlies without having a bawhair of theirs!”

Also, ‘awa an take yer face for a shite’ is a marvellous riposte.

And you canna beat a bosie 😍

Yes diluting juice here too.

‘What time are you leaving?’
‘The back of 5’
English person looks at me as if I have two heads...apparently ‘the back of’ a time is a Scottish thing

Confused my English boyfriend when I took him to meet my parents. They were talking about a film and trying to remember the lead actor's name. They asked him, "Who was that boy in The Green Mile?"

Boyfriend was struggling to think of any young boys in that film until I explained.