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

Thank you both.

@Mrsjayy jamp is a replacement for jumped.

Although I'm aware it's not a word & correct the DC's I always feel a bit pretentious consciously saying jumped instead of jamp - a bit like when I consciously say garden instead of gairden - because it's common parlance where I'm from so to be fair I do sound like a bit of a knob when I'm with family & friends from school.

Love this thread, I'm from central Scotland and DH is from Aberdeenshire so we cover a good range of these. I have managed to train "jamp" out of him as it drove me right up the wall. He'll say things like "that's nae muckle use that" "far ye fae?" "Fits at?".

Whenever he makes fun of a Glasgow accent he just talks like a ned and sticks the word but at the end of everything.

When I lived up in Aberdeen I had a job in Greggs and an older lady walked in and asked me for a morning roll, I handed her a bread roll she looked confused and kept repeating that she wanted a morning roll. A colleague stepped in to translate and it turns out in certain parts a morning roll is a buttery. Who knew.

My Scottish friend always says 'my' this and 'my' that... "I was in mah work... " where I'd just say "I was at work," or "I was in mah bed and someone chapped a' mah door," and I want to say well, who else's bed would you be in? (she's married). I hadn't even heard chapped used in that sense until I met her. I love the rhythms of her speech.

Yes you chap (knock) a door.

I've lived in Scotland for decades. Not lost my English accent, but picked up a lot of the vernacular.
I love outwith and use it all the time.
Where do you stay? Used to confuse me.
I used to confuse chippies by asking for fish with a portion of chips. "You mean a fish supper with extra chips?"
I avoid "back of 8" because it still confuses me.
I love dreich which totally conjures up the dull, dreary on the verge of raining weather.
I used to get annoyed when my sons used How? when to my mind Why? was the correct query. It made it better to think of it as short for "How come?"
I've just about got used to "it needs done" at work where I would say It needs doing or to be done.

I have a colleague at work who will randomly ask me to say certain words. Her favourites are murder, bawbag, glaikit, dreich, ya tube and and bahooky. She pisses herself laughing.

Anyone else say "the back door" instead of "the garden"? Is that a Scottish thing?

I used to get annoyed when my sons used How? when to my mind Why? was the correct query.

My husband hates this! I use ‘how’ regularly and it drives him bonkers

I say how instead of why I think it is ingrained in us.

ah yes my relative who lives in America had to explain "Hurricane Bawbag"

LOL

Doesn't it mean closer to 9 than 8 o'clock.
I'm not Scottish but have heard this before.

Doesn't it mean closer to 9 than 8 o'clock.

Definitely not. It’s just after 8.

8.15! Yes, Scottish!

When I moved to England it took me a wee whiley to stop using 'wifie', 'quine' and 'loon'. I also love a 'hud yer wheesht', 'fit why', 'gonnae no' and 'how'

My Irish DH finds it very funny if you say ‘he’s in his bed’. I’m not sure why and didn’t realise it was a Scottishism!