Guilt Free Railing 12

[WouldBeGood]

The railing goes on

[quote Lockdownbear]@forfucksakenett I'd agree with your professor. Regional dialect with a few Scots words.

I have the Gruffalo in Scots there are words in it I had no clue about thing like Hoolet, which is Owl. I have never heard anyone talk about a hoolet.[/quote]
I only know that one because of one of the (awful) poems by JK Anand or similar that the kids had to learn for the Burns thing at school.

That was the year that DD's best friend's mum phoned me in tears begging for help, she is an Indian doctor, super well educated in English, not a clue where to start with tripe like "My Wee Doggie"

I still remember my Borders DH being flummoxed when my mum told him to put something on the bunker ben the hoose....

Ah'd agree with yir professor anaw aboot the dialec

The best word I've heard for stookie is a pot - Jimmy has his leg in a pot - from a Derbyshire woman.

A few years ago there was a nativity going around which had been written in 'Scots'. People on here were arguing over which area it was meant to be. Everyone thought it was somewhere else, we don't use that word, I think it X area who'd reply, we don't talk like that, I think it's Y area...
Reality is the writer seemed to pick words from all over the place trying to please everyone and ended up pleasing nobody.

@rookiemere if you buy a two together railcard for £30 you get a third off train fares. So even for one trip to London it might well be worth it.

Kids and I always get the train to London. And stay at the Premier Inn St Pancras, which is a five minute walk from Euston, where the train gets in. And very handy for the Tube.

There’s also a nice looking hotel near there called the Gyle- I’m booked for October and they were giving discounts and upgrades if you booked direct rather than through a booking site.

@ElephantOfRisk are you from Wishaw? The only people I've heard talk about bunkers are from Wishaw, not even the rest of Lanarkshire.

The hippopippopotamus is sprauchling in the glaur?

[quote Lockdownbear]@ElephantOfRisk are you from Wishaw? The only people I've heard talk about bunkers are from Wishaw, not even the rest of Lanarkshire.[/quote]
No, Edinburgh. There was the coal bunker - big concrete thing in the back garden but the worksurface in the kitchen was also the bunker.

I'd heard of it as coal bunker, but only in Wishaw as a kitchen worktop as in put that on the bunker.

My gran called it a bunker - Dundee.

DHs home in the Borders would be closer to me in Edinburgh than I think Dundee or Wishaw would be. It maybe depends on where your parents or even their parents came from. My mum's family was originally Orkney and North East, Dad's mainly Edinburgh.

Or maybe it's just arbitrary. I like aww nut instead of oh no. I've adopted a few things from other places as I've moved or got things from wider family or friends who bide in aither bits.

Thanks @WouldBeGood think I could use Tesco vouchers for a railcard so that's a definite possibility.
@BroccoliFloret yes we used to hate Burns week in our house. As the child of an English father and Norn Irish mother, DS chance of gaining any understanding of the poem was nil, so he'd dutifully pick the shortest one and learn it by rote. Might as well have been jabberwocky.

@BroccoliFloret

Agree, there is no "Scots", whatever the powers that be would like to think. Regional dialect varies enormously around the country. My three grandparents who were alive when I was growing up were from Fife, the Borders and Ayrshire - they all spoke in different ways and used different words and expressions. A great aunt from Aberdeen used a lot of Doric words, a girl I shared accommodation with at Uni from Shetland appeared to be speaking a totally different language at times.

"Scots" isn't a language, it's a mish mash, a hybrid dialect based on English. Most people in Scotland use some dialect words - stookie instead of plaster cast, or wee instead of little. But nobody, speaks the full-on "Scots language" in the way the Scottish government would like to believe it exists as something totally separate from English.

If "Scots" is a separate language, then so is American English, Australian English or South African English.

That's not entirely correct. It's a recognised language. I just think it's a bit of an academic thing. My American professor could speak it fluently. Normal folk on the ground, not so much generally.

English is also a huge mix of languages and words from different places because of Britain's cough interesting past. Lots of Indian words for example.

I looked at going to London next week but the hotels were extortionate. Where as I could get first class train tickets for £150 return for Dh and me.

I'll like to rail against adult children who wake you up at 5.15am by letting their alarm go off every 5 minutes for an hour, then wakens her brother up (that's when you know she's done something) and you discover the kettle missing. Eventually found it in the garden having been melted. It appears drunk Dd tried to boil the kettle on the hob 🤦🏻‍♀️ when does Dundee get her back?

@Groovee I’m sorry, but that made me laugh 😂

Mr G says I've not to laugh. But it is funny. But I am so tired now.

Groovee I don't think I've seen a kettle that goes on the hob since my Granny died in 1990. Does she use one somewhere?

Oh my god Groovee! Lucky you didn't all end up melted, never mind the kettle!

The tired bit is rubbish @Groovee. But the drunken kettle melting.. oh dear!

You definitely win the prize for rubbish Sunday morning @Groovee . What on earth possessed her ?

Oh our Sunday has been special - we're on a weekend away, we booked the same lovely place we went in April, very rural.

In April we woke on Monday to a flat tyre and speculated that some sort of animal must've done it.

This time my dh was run off the road by an oblivious OAP and did his tyre in today, he called the roadside assistance and gave his location and the man said oh yes, you're the man whose rabbit ate his tyre.

We're scared to return a third time but I suspect we'll risk it as the place is amazing.

I suspect prosecco had something to do with her thought process.

We saw a on the hob kettle in our villa in Orlando in 2013.

@mapleleavesreturn sounds idyllic but what a mare about the tyre.

My antibody test has come back with no antibodies from infection. I knew that. But interesting all the same.

I don't really know why but hob kettles are the main kind you see in the US.