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How Not?

125 replies

Sexnotgender · 19/06/2020 18:36

AIBU to think how not is a perfectly acceptable question?

My non Scottish husband thinks how not is not a question.

Frankly I think someone from a country that uses the phrase now now doesn’t get to judge my grammar!

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BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum · 20/06/2020 10:08

Amt I - I tend to say int ah. Like, ‘I’m supposed to go left here, int ah?’

I had a friends mum used to say ‘ben the kitchen’ instead of in the kitchen. They came from travellers so not sure where that’s originally from!

Up/down the road. We say that anywhere, not just coming home from England. It just means home. I’ve left something up the road, I’m going down the road etc. Just means I’ve left it at home, I’m going home.

I love how no 😂😂 and did ye aye. Watch some Kevin bridges and you’ll get it

Mamadoll · 20/06/2020 11:00

If you wernae a braw wee lassie/ laddie, then you were a glaikit wee bastard.

Come er a bit so a kin skelp yer erse wi the baffy!

My aunties always pronounced (or pranoonced) daughter as dochtor, always confused people when it was thought my aunts were talking aboot the doctor because it wasnae makin any sense.

OscarWildesCat · 20/06/2020 11:02

I’m Scottish, I had a German friend who got very annoyed and confused at why everyone was saying how instead of why and looking at her like she had 2 heads when she went on to explain how. For example, “I need to go to the shops”, “how?”, “in the car”
I say the back of all the time, it just means I won’t be bang on time but thereabouts 😁

OscarWildesCat · 20/06/2020 11:03

@Mamadoll glaikit is my absolute favourite Scottish word 😁

Mamadoll · 20/06/2020 11:13

Ye haver a load of shite.

I quite like the use of chakit to describe things that I don't like. 'That dress is fuckin chackit' (or sometimes its houfin).

Does anyone out outwith Scottish have skooshie cream?

mynameisntlouise · 20/06/2020 11:26

I'm half Scottish on my dads side and when we go up and visit I take a half day to sink into the dialect but then it doesn't even sound strange to me.

My mum, who's been visiting Saltcoats with my Dad for 40+ years, comes back with a Scottish dialect every time.

Lidlfix · 20/06/2020 11:27

Mamadoll how do you pronounce "chakit" it's hackit in my part of the world but the same meaning.

Mamadoll · 20/06/2020 11:43

@Lidlfix I've only ever heard it pronounced ch-ah-kit.

NameChange84 · 20/06/2020 11:46

I have to say I get confused with “the back of”.

As a child I’d get told “go back tae bed hen. Look at the clock and dinnae come back and wake me until the back of 9 and then we’ll go doon and get yer breakfast”. So I’d go back and knock on the door and get told off for letting my parents sleep until nearly 10...because I thought it meant went 9 went away so you were seeing the back of it.

Watching my Scots family members having conversations with doctors and police officers etc who aren’t Scottish is frustrating, especially as none of them have lived North of Liverpool for about 40 years!

“Naw, I saw him round the back of the wee shop eh? Sitting on the wee dyke peerin in when yer man was shutting up the shop. Around half eight at night eh? The he was back at the back of nine with a brick in his hawnd when he knew the owners wereny there eh? He lowped it in then the wee dug opposite started barking awfy bad eh? So he ran off doon the brae. I got a guid look at him though eh?”

“I went off my legs at the back of 7 this night. I’d been feeling guy funny for a wee while and I’d been flat out until 11 this mornin which is awfy no like me. I’m usually on the go from the back of 5. Mind you, I didnae feel like eating much, I only managed a piece on jam so mebbe that’s why I went off ma legs.”

I can see the poor police or paramedic thinking “come again?”, then I translate.

HaudMaDug · 20/06/2020 12:38

Constant echo around our house growing up.
Mum: Deh touch that .
Me: Ahw how no?
Result: Het lug.

FizzFan · 20/06/2020 14:05

I like Mockit

Nippybutsweet · 20/06/2020 14:07

Did ye, aye?Hmm

Sonichu · 20/06/2020 14:19

Even if you've never heard outwith, it's not that hard to work out what it means is it?

Mollypolly2610 · 20/06/2020 16:53

Had an English friend a while ago I asked her to chum me to the shops. She had no idea what I meant.

When we got back I asked her to put some things on the bunker for me. She was still standing in the kitchen when I finished unloading the car. She didn’t know where the bunker was.

EmperorCovidula · 20/06/2020 16:58

I have never heard of this. I know ‘how come’ but I guess that’s short for ‘how does it come to be that’ which is essentially a long winded way of asking why etc. How not, if I were to think about it, implies ‘how is it that it is not?’ Which is very confusing but also makes sense. I guess it’s not correct or common but it’s hardly gibberish.

EmperorCovidula · 20/06/2020 17:00

@Sonichu I would guess either get out or outside. Can you put it in a sentence? I’m accustomed to guessing the meaning of words from context now, having lived in the U.K. for a while where you all seem to speak completely different versions of English.

Sexnotgender · 20/06/2020 17:47

having lived in the U.K. for a while where you all seem to speak completely different versions of English.

😂😂
That we do!

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FizzFan · 20/06/2020 17:59

Outwith means “outside of” eg “outwith opening hours” = “outside of opening hours”.

NameChange84 · 20/06/2020 18:30

having lived in the U.K. for a while where you all seem to speak completely different versions of English

I can remember furious arguments at University over our orders in the chip shop;

“Chip Butty, please?”

“A what?”

“A Chip Butty”

“Is that Chips with butter? We don’t do that?”

“No it’s a Butty, you know...a Butty?”

“Battered Chips? Like a Scallop?”

“I think he means a Chip Roll?”

“What the fuck is a Chip Roll?”

“It’s a roll with chips on!”

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhh you mean a Chip Barm!”

“A what?! A BALM? Or a bomb?”

“Barm. A chip barm. Barmcake.”

“Yeah like a Bap”

“Isn’t that a rude word for boobs? Get yer baps out for the lads?”

“No a bap is a roll innit? Or like a barmcake!”

“A bap is NOT a Barmcake. Baps are shiny and barms are floury”.

“Like a morning roll”

“a murronning roll? What’s that now? God it’s not even that difficult it’s just a roll and some chips on! Look, I’ll just have some cheesy chips.”

Serving lady glares...”CHEESE? On chips?”

Everyone stares.

“Bloody southerners.”

whatshebininagain · 20/06/2020 18:45

Namechange84 _Are your relatives from Dundee?

whatshebininagain · 20/06/2020 18:47

I've just asked DH to "wheech" the curtain across as the sun was in my eyes.

kimlo · 20/06/2020 18:53

I'm english (well NE) and how not is right.

And it's not diluting juice, what even is that? It's diluty juice.

Euclid · 20/06/2020 18:55

I have never heard it either.

willloman · 20/06/2020 18:55

Shame, he'll understand you now now...or beg your pardon Grin

MargotsBumpyNight · 20/06/2020 19:04

'Naw am urny'

And if course, the only place you can end a sentence with 'but' Grin