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!

how many of us can take a telling?

“Take a telling” that also reminds me of “getting a row”, as in “he made a mess and his Mum gave him a row”.

Just caught up with this great thread! derxa - DH's family also say "jaisket", and I've never heard anyone else say it - weird! oblomov I hope you were just offering info about your provenance, rather than casting a slur on the industriousness (or lotherwise) of Doonhamers! (sorry but my keyboard is refusing to let me do paragraphs!!)

or, his mum "gave him a raging"

how many of us can take a telling? As long as it’s not a Mumsnet one.

Got onto this thread super late but discovered that DH had never heard the phrase 'she does hee haw', I hadn't even realised it was a Scots phrase until now.

@motherstongue , agree. Outwith doesn’t mean without. The phrase I normally associate it with is ‘that’s outwith my remit’ (I’d love to help, but that’s not in my job description ;) )

The kids were watching CBeebies and I thought I’d misheard when the main character was called ‘skitter’. I didn’t realise it meant anything other than my Scots translation for it.

When I went to uni and was asked by a fellow student where the vending machine was, they looked utterly confused when I told them ‘it’s just through-by’. I thought everyone said that!

@3out I seem to use the phrase "outwith my control" quite a lot. What do non-Scottish speakers say instead of that?

Another Scottish thing is to say up the road or doon the road for home. E.g. where's Willie the day? He's up the road. Or where did Senga get to last night? She Was fed up wi people clappin the dug so she went doon the road

Being called Mhairi and everyone trying to figure out if its Marry, Varry, Marie, Maria, Mary etc

@Amyerda - also "through the house" or "in the fridge" (as in "have you been in the fridge to look for it")

"The Ken that you ken kens the Ken that I ken, ya ken?"

@MrsGollach do they just say ‘outside my control’? Not sure!

We had a lady admitted because she’d collapsed. The other nurse on rang the dr to let them know and said ‘I thinks she’s just heedlight cos she’s no wint wae the heat’. Cue an utterly confused dr. So the nurse said in her best English accent ‘she’s head light because she is not wint with this hot weather’. Still completely confused. So I translated instead and said ‘she’s head light because she isn’t used to this heat’. Dr still completely confused. Then I said ‘Oh! Maybe you say light headed?’ Yep, that did the trick 😂