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

PrimalLass, thanks for the link re. outwith (bloody autocorrect still wants it to be two separate words!), I use it quite often, it's just so useful.

And the green hill far away hymn, that was one of my favourites at primary school.

I saw someone posted about bidey-in which is an excellent term, I wonder if anyone else has heard of the precursor to biding in, as being "guy weel acquant"? Suspect it's very local to me (half way between Doric and Inverness - good morneen!

And! Very excited to read that, "and your point is, caller?" originated from On the Ball!

Although it's not Tam Cowan who does my head in on that programme, it's the wee nyaff who sounds like he's chewing his tongue when he's speaking...

Does anyone else use amn't I? As in "I'm chumming you fur the messages, amn't I?"

...when wherever you are in the world, you just need to "nip to the wee shop" for something..

standard first day of arriving on holiday practice is to suss out where the "wee shop" is.

DS2 was well impressed when he found actual "brewed in Scotland" Irn Bru in Turkey - so impressed he brought home the empty can

"guy weel aquaint" - yes, that lovely touch of judginess that they know each other rather better than they should!

I had a Doric dad, Invernesian mum. Who were not guy weel aquaint. Nor bidie-ins. Said mum recently described the birth circumstances of both of her dggs as "immoral". Even though her mum and MIL both had shotgun weddings

Doesn't every Scot say "amn't I"? I always feel it's more gramatically correct than "aren't I".

English-teacher-mother never let me say "Amn't I" nor is ds

Are you sure about that pie I'm probably a lot older than you but the late great James Sanderson from Clyde Super Scoreboard was famous for "were you at the game caller?" Said in that obstreperous manner he was known for.

Always thought amn't I should be correct as you would say am I not, not are I not.

And I'm sure my English teacher mother did too.

Behooven, you could well be right with your Clyde man, and that might have been back in the day before our local radio station, Moray Firth (or, Furry Mouth) was born.

I definitely say amn't I, as pointed out by my 12yo dd...

Hirples, isn't everything up here reported with a touch of judginess? Or maybe it's just the droll delivery that makes it sound like that

Gi' us a scoof.
Fit like the noo?
Come awa in, it's richt lovely to see you!

Fit's waur than teaching quines, wi' clishmaclavers in their mines? Fit's waur than teaching loons, wi summat I cannae mind. Fit's waur an un an waur an ither, is teaching loons an quines agither.

Through the hoose - English DH was totally bemused by that one.
Tattie-howkin - in fact, the tattie holidays as a concept.

I say ahmn't I. It's proper English in my wee head. it's only right slang if you say ahmn't uh... instead of I.

Aye! To the tattie holidays.

It will never be called half term in this house! But folk look at me like when I say tattie holidays.

I wonder if the judginess is a hangover from the days when the Presbytry held real power? That would fit with a certain drollness in delivery, too.

No, not long ago at all; we certainly observed the Sabbath as children, and I'm (only) 53. My dad, who would have been 85, was actually more Piskie than CoS, but was willing to settle for what was available, as is my Born Again dsis these days.

But I was more thinking back to the days when the Presbytry could have a parishoner locked in chains outside the church on a Sunday for louche or immoral behaviour. I want to use the word "jouks" but brief googling isn't providing any support for it...

Timeously and outwith are v civil service usages now

And legal. Microsoft Word refuses to recognise either as words.

There are some lovely Doric words, quine, loon, thole (which is also legal " thole your assize"), glaikit, scunnert, thrawn, coorse, (all that juice and ginger is Glaswegian.

Salt and sauce is Edinburgh unknown much beyond Perth to the north and Bathgate to the west.

teaching loons an quines agither.

I had a lovely conversation with my very broad Doric spoken brother the Sunday before the referendum. "Aye we're better the gither " was his view.

The measuring distance in time thing- I really had not noticed that,
but it's true.

Wean is Glaswegian isn't it? I don't recall it being used in Aberdeenshire and I've not heard it in Edinburgh. Bairn is the Doric word.

It's really surprising and nice how many dialect words are used, even in quite formal situations without even being aware of their being dialect.

My DH recalls going on holiday to the west and no ball games on the Sabbath was on the notice board at the beach.

Weans is a weegie word so is ginger. Wee ones are bairns and juice is juice no matter what kind. Never heard of salt and sauce here either.

Ben the hoose
Lobby dosser as in he's a lobby dosser.
Peh as in pie
Plen brade- plain bread
Piece - two slices of bread normally with butter and jam or cheese in between the two slices. We used to get asked do you want a piece'n'jam - normally eaten with clarty hands when you were out playing.
Half loaf - a loaf of bread. a loaf is called a half loaf because it's only half of what you used to buy a long time ago.
Pan loafy means posh as in she thinks she's pan loafy.

Clarty and barkit- both mean dirty/muddy - when you come in from being out playing mum would say look at the state of you two your barkit get in the bath. Look at the colour of your socks - they're clarty.

So true. I still remember the first time I was asked "salt and sauce" - no idea what she meant