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

Surely it's 'you're Scottish?'

shushu even when my nana lived in a single end in polmadie she had a lobby

BuyMeAPONY- Racist much??? There are so many things wrong with your post I don't even know where to start.

When every woman over the age of 18 is referred to as "a wife/wifie" - irrelevant of marital status.

I was once in a very rural pub in Belgium with my drunken uncle telling tales of what a German girl would do for fresh fruit on hamburg just after the war. All in Doric so I wasn't too worried about anyone understanding...

Until it became clear one of the diners from the neighbouring table was also from the north-east. The shame!

Ha, a friend of mine was in that there London with her mum, who insisted on making racist comments about other diners in the restaurant. Fortunately, none spoke Gaelic, but she was mortified!

My dad still says pit it in the back lobby. He means the bit of floor near his back door the took the wall down 30 odd years ago when we moved in There is no lobby

Can only claim a Scottish grandmother but either she passed on a lot to my Irish mother or a lot of these are Scottish/Irish crossovers as they're very familiar.

I read it as your not you're as well the op didnt mean you are

I did notice the lack of the apostrophe and it grated on me but I enjoyed the thread too much to warrant commenting on it .

Re "outwith", I remember singing "There is a green hill far far away, without a city wall" at primary school (for the Easter service) and the teacher explaining that it didn't mean that there wasn't a city wall but that it was another way of saying "outside", like "outwith". That was a looooooong time ago

Ach don't let one wee nyaff pish oan oor chips

Aaah - I see: the title refers to "Scottish" as the language, not as the adjective describing the person. I can stop letting it grate on me

prettybird

Prettybird, I share the green hill memory!

Tbh I did notice it should have been "you're" but thought Fuck it....typical Scottish response to most things

When you say mind instead of remember, as in, " mind that time we did x".

Och BDH you should have brazened itout

I love the phrase nyaff. It's the best description for one.
I say "the wean" on a daily basis. It's usually my youngest child I'm referring to.
My partner is right "Auld Ayrshire" so he uses loads of phrases that I don't even use. Both my parents are glaswegian so I use more of their phrases.
DP uses ken, taes, yin, een to name a few.

We were at a very posh kids party with a load of scenestery arty folk wanks and the conversation turned to what hoover everyone had (I know!) Dp said that a dyson would "sook the pile oot yer cairpet" to the vacant expression of the whole room. It was hilarious.

haha I know mrsjay I'm out shopping for school claiz and I'm stressed so thought I better own up to my mistake before it turned into a your, you're debate.

You say, 'I'm away to my bed'.
bowfin - smelly or disgusting
burd - Girlfriend/ girls in general (huv ye seen the state ay they burds!) see Jackie Burd
dancin - nightclub ("Are you gawn to the dancin tonight?")
fizzog - face
flit - move house
futer - to twiddle and mess about with something
gonnae no dae that - please do not do that
hackit - ugly
jaked - being in a state of drunkenness (I was jaked last night)
liftit - to be arrested by the police. e.g. He wiz totally pished in the police liftit him
mibay/ mibbe - maybe. As Kenny Dalglish 'says' 'Mibbes aye or mibbes naw'
oan yer bike - go away
that's a sin - what a shame
etc. etc.
Chosen from this website: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_Scottish_slang_and_jargon Unusually accurate

Not sure how much English people realise you are being sarcastic when you say, "And your point is, caller? said in a nasal voice

or have I been forced to listen to too many football call-in shows by dh

derxa! bowfin is a great word. Gies ye the dreh boak!
I had no idea playpiece wasn't standard English until I worked outside Scotland. Having a piece on jam as I type!

And dubs for puddles!

when you call someone annoying "a pest of fuck"

when someone tries to be wide they're a wee ticket

ben the kitchen/loaby

'See you after'