see you at the back of 8

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Is it a Scottish thing?

Anyone know what it means?

I do (Scottish)

My friend is English and was like WTF lol

OP - are you saying that 'taking your DD to the baths' means something other than taking her to the swimming baths?

Geordie/Northumbrian here and I know what it means but I suppose that's just because of proximity.

Geordie/Northumbrian here and I know what it means but I suppose that's just because of proximity.

Where do you stay? confused me for a while.

Another phrase that sounds strange to my English ears is saying that something will require to be done.

Never heard the phrase in the OP though.

taking her swimming aye

how can anyone think 'back of' means before? It says 'back' and back of 8 is not in front of 8....

As a Scot brought up by Scots in England I have come across these issues a lot! I remember being told off for making up the word outwith in some biology coursework and having to bring in a dictionary to prove I hadn't. So I know 'the back of' but I would doubt my husband would.

If you look at a clock face, the minute hand goes 'back' from 12 if it's 5 to or 10 to the hour, it goes forward for 5 past or 10 past

I've only ever heard it in the West of Scotland. Still no idea if my Scottish colleagues meant for me to meet them just before 8 or after 8. I'd have to clarify every time.

Hopefully be there by 8, but definitely no later than quarter past 8!

Yep what fizz says! As someone new to the phrase.... back would imply backwardsa/behind/before. Just as after means forwards/after.
If you start at 8, back would be before, after well, aftet!!

‘At the back of’ means trailing behind, so after? I mean ‘by quarter past’ when I say at the back of.

I also love the word outwith and use it all the time.

told my wean she was crabbit the day

(I really did but)

and on that note, is it just us scots that end sentences with but?

sorry, so the conclusion is ....this means 10 past 8?

I'm confused.

any time before half 8

sorry, so the conclusion is ....this means 10 past 8

It's not as specific as that. Just after 8. Anytime from 8 til 815 probably

Honestly, I remember being utterly adamant that “outwith”’is just a normal word, in common use, understood by all.

Man, I was so wrong and it only dawned on me after 10 years of living in London that I wasn’t surrounded by halfwits, the person in the “wrong” was me.

I have to say though I hate the term “back of”. I’m quite a stickler for time and to me 8 is 8 and “back of” is a license to fuck about with an extra 20 mins or so.

Not on my watch, sunshine.

I thought the back of was a fife thing that had spread...

I’m from the north west of Scotland and it’s not a thing there, I still don’t really get it tbh.

if it means between 8 and 8.30, I'd just want them to say 8.15!

Can someone please explain the other Scottish sayings mentioned so far? Because I’m a lost southern English person!

"But" at the end of a sentence? Definitely Scottish. Around Ayrshire I would say OP?

My Glaswegian SIL does the but at the end of every sentence thing, as a Fifer it sets my teeth on edge

I'm Glaswegian and I hate to hear people say 'but' at the end of a sentence, drives me mad.

Just asked my English husband and he laughed and said that there are lots of Scottishisms he's learned over the years.

Outwith... He laughed

He also offers adding in additional 'the'.. I'm coming the now, I'm going for the shopping..

He also offers up.... Ken.... Did ye ken... I was speaking to aggie about going for the shopping and I saw that beans were on offer... Did you ken....

Sorry. I miss typed sodding phone doesn't like my language. Did you no ken.....