Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

Great thread!

"Who belongs to this coat?"

I moved to Forfar and my husband always moans at me for saying circles! Apparently I should be boring and call them roundabouts now!

“I’m away to…” instead of saying about to / going to do something

eg “I’m away to do it now…”
”I’m away to put the kettle on…”
”I’m away to go out…”

No, it’s not the day after tomorrow where I’m from…

The morn’s morn = tomorrow morning
The morn’s nicht = tomorrow night

mrsjayy, in Norfolk one “coaxes” a dog, instead of clapping it as in Scotland, or
patting it as in the south east.

Back door, meaning back garden
Doll, as in awright doll?
Eh no? Clackanese expression
"You're frae embra ken? "

I always liked James v1 /1 in Nigel tranter fearing he'd "get his paikes" from George Buchanan, his tutor.

That sounds sinister 😂

Ten past.

There's a busker in Dundee city centre who always sings 'ye cannae shove yer granny aff the bus'

My auntie always used to sing (to the tune of 'she'll be coming round the mountain')
There's a manny in yer loaby Mary-Anne (Mary-Anne)
There's a manny in yer loaby Mary-Anne (Mary-Anne)
There's a manny in yer loaby, ye better get the boaby
There's a manny in yer loaby Mary-Anne

Sinister, but sung with such gusto!

There's a busker in Dundee city centre who always sings 'ye cannae shove yer granny aff the bus

The infamous Fast Eddie?

The now.

First footing at Hogmanay
"Ye ken?"
Oven pronounced like over
Going 'doon the watter'
Irn bru floats
Stovies
Tattie scones
Clootie dumpling
Salt on porridge
Juice is 'ginger'
Schemes
The cooncil
The polis
Aye
Wee
Glakit
Neds
Red & blonde sandstone tenements
The close
Weans
Going to uni at 16
All of education
Free prescriptions
No toll roads/bridges/tunnels
No smart motorways
Midges
Going skiing from home
Children's hearings
£1 notes
Presbyterianism
Sabbathism
Different definition of murder & rape amongst other crimes
The Clarsach
Verbal contracts being binding

Oh god no. This busker is a proper one, an older guy.

I give Fast Eddie a very wide berth!

Amn't I.

Kids songs:
Little bunny foo foo
Skinny malinky lang legs
Ally bally bee
Three craws
Canny shove yer granny aff a bus

This is about as Scottish as it gets for me 😀

The back of 2 means 2.15

Going wi - who someone is dating

Hoose measure - large alcoholic drink poured at home!

approaching the circle in Dundee is a roundabout to rest of scotland

There's a manny in yer loaby Mary-Anne (Mary-Anne)
There's a manny in yer loaby Mary-Anne (Mary-Anne)
There's a manny in yer loaby, ye better get the boaby
There's a manny in yer loaby Mary-Anne

Is that 'boaby' as in polis, or, errrmmmm...?!!!

It's boaby as in Bobby aka police. Not a penis boaby 🙂

Reference for the police or polis to many of us🤣

@Alex Drake sorry x posted with you on this

“That’s me”
as in
”That’s me away the now” I’m just leaving.
”That’s me got here the now” I’ve just arrived.

The Dancin’. (Nightclub)
The shows (Fairground)

”She’s a nippy sweetie”.

I love a ",that's me" it's so final and everybody knows where they stand.😃

So many of these would (and do) drive my DH up the wall (very English, think Surrey), especially when it comes to my Dad, despite spending more than 50 years away from Glasgow, still has one of the strongest Weegie accents I have ever come across - even I don't understand him sometimes.

Others I haven't seen yet:
Mince round (confuses the HELL out of DH - "why not just call it a pie?")
Moffat Toffee (also v confusing "it's not toffee")

The Singing Kettle - have introduced our DS age 3 to the Granny Song, also the Piano song. We still sing Ali Bali Bee at night. He also knows the difference between "wee" and "wee-wee". His cousins, not so much.