You know your Scottish when....

[BloodyDogHairs]

everyone asks "where's the wean?" instead of their actual name

So what's your "you know your scottish" thing? and favourite word.

My favourite word is Sleekit or Glaiket

Got sent this via fb today from a colleage at work who is English and now refuses to say Scottish places after butchering Ecclefechan!

My favourite scottsh word is Wersh.

When I first started secondary a girl asked if I lived in a "boat hoose"

I thought she was asking if I lived on a canal barge

My favourite Scottish word is swithering.

You know you are Scottish when you use 'outwith'.

Also, when a bad weather summer is not a surprise.

I did giggle a bit trying to tell a Welsh claims handler I'd had an accident on Milngavie Road

When the sentence - does the ken that you ken ken the ken that I ken? Makes complete sense

When you set the Sky Box for Taggart, despite the laughter of all your friends, and when the phrase 'how no? It's legal tender, but!' is your most used when in England

I do think there are variances - as a native Glaswegian I would never say 'ken' and feel like a proper Central Belt softie when people start talking about quines and loons! And I'm crap at nature - when I was on Skye, I was climbing around some rocks and decked it about 8 times, much to the amusement of my islander pal!

Timeously.

Also love to say "dinnae fache me"
Haud yer wheesh
Stop that rammie
Try telling a non-Scot to "Put that ashest past in the press"

Or even worse: ask for a fish supper with salt and sauce in England. Apart from the blank looks when you try to explain that no, you don't want tomato sauce, you want chip shop sauce and that a supper means fish AND chips, they will try to sell you cod or other strange fish. All good Scots know the only fish that belongs in a supper is a haddock.

*ashet.
Bloody auto correct.

I'll never forget the first time I heard an ex boyfriend say "Av loast Ma gowf baw"
Even I had to think about it! A non-Scot would still be there searching his/her head.

You definitely know you're Scottish when the morning after a night out consists of a roll & square sausage and a can of Irn Bru.

Yull no get sauce over here either - be gone with yur Eastern witchcraft

I only recently found out that outwith was Scottish.

'Where do you stay?' instead of 'Where do you live?'

When you go out for messages.
You live in a close
Munchy box is a normal takeaway food

haha I've just ordered a munchie box from the indian takeaway

"Did ye aye"....love that too.

I once had a late night dalliance with a guy from Coatbridge called Davie Shooders.

It wasn't till the next day that I learned that his surname was not Shooders. He had big shoulders!

My DH is Scottish, I'm loving this thread and asking what all these sayings mean :)

"Av loast Ma gowf baw"
Even I had to think about it! A non-Scot would still be there searching his/her head.

I just got that!

I have to say I don't recognise a few of these- nobody I know uses wean daily. And definitely not wersch.

For my Weegie DP:

A sentence does not need to include 'fuck' every third word.

"Gaunnae naw" is my favourite (short form of Gaunnae naw dae that")

I work in the US and in (sshhh) England so have had to temper my natural Glasgow accent but that still slips out.

Before charges for plastic bags, you always asked for "a wee bag". Meaning a normal sized carrier!
You go round the street for your messages
And mourn the fact guisers have defected to trick or treating

I stole this from FB

When folk fae ootside scotland dinnae know what "clapping the dug" means

What about when you ask for a " special fish supper"

that way you get the haddock freshly cooked in breadcrumbs

I love the word "thole" : I've introduced it to English friends but had to explain that it always has to have a subject (as in "thole it/x").

When you celebrate summer as it hits 18 degrees??

Scunnered and dreich.

Where Walloper, fud and fanny are terms of endearment... Sort of.

Glaikit and oxters are my faves