Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

Hi @PollyThePixie 😊

I have occasionally posted a wee update on my last thread but not for ages. I very often think of all the lovely folk who got me through. I know most will have namechanged.

Life is better for me wrt XH but like everyone, has had lots of ups and downs. But it’s infinitely easier with him on the periphery.

Ah flitted tae engerland

Hiya place marking I managed to lose the thread 😀

What fur no?

my DM ponied it up earlier today

Yer da sells Avon.

Someone near my friend's house renamed their WiFi to that and I always laugh when I visit her.

I’m English and we called them jotters! I don’t think that’s Scottish particularly

Do you call all exercise books jotters? I said it on my first day teaching in England (because to me it was as normal a word as pencil or whatever, and was what I'd called every exercise book I'd ever written in during primary and high school) and the children were very confused - the teacher told me later it's what they call books for rough work. I've never heard the books children write in be called jotters in England in 10 years of teaching, other than a scrappy book for rough work. Is it regional?

I always remember my granny saying that soup would stick to your ribs. Usually a lovely thick Scotch brother. Don't know if that was just her though.

Scotch broth. Bloody autocorrect!!

My granny used to say that you could dance on the soup it was that thick ☺️

my Gran said that too…we call it “fork and knife soup”😂

This is such a lovely thread to read, so may things have reminded me of one of my grans-she was born in 1908 in Dundee and was old school couthy with how she spoke🥰….as opposed to my other gran who was proper oary 🤣

I am in loving this thread!
Love ahm ur or Ahn urny , hawns instead of hands ahm washin ma hawns!
So many memories, does anyone remember a pokey hat was an ice cream? Phrase like stop greeting or I’ll give ye something to greet aboot!
To the poster (from England) that said Scottish people treat Rabbie Burns poetry like somehow it is special ,my reply would be that’s because it is! There is no denying he was a genius, raised by a poor farming family to have poems put to music and sang the world over well that is pretty special!

the Selkirk Grace is pretty special - maybe they just don’t understand it??

Yes perhaps not but that’s no reason to say Scottish people have a weird idea that Robert Burns Poetry is high art, it most definitely is! anyhoo don’t want to derail what is a lovely thread., loving all the Scottish words.

I think we’re agreeing. I’m just giving them the benefit of the doubt that it’s ignorance rather than some kind of higher understanding of what constitutes high art!

Yep, we call them jotters in Northern Ireland as well. Loads of things in the thread isn't particularly Scottish that's true.

Northern Ireland, lowland Scotland and northern England have a long cultural history as well. Very connected, especially during the Industrial Revolution, e.g. Belfast was called Linenopolis, Manchester was Cottonopolis - I'm sure Glasgow had one, but don't recall right now. Sheffield was Steel City.

When I started teaching in southern England in the 80s I asked the pupils to take out their jotters and they looked at me like I had 2 heads.
I'd also been taught to speak French with some semblance of a French accent but when I said "Ouvrez la porte" they had no idea what I was saying so I had to say it like "Oovray la pawte" in an exaggerated English accent.

This is a great thread!

I love this thread. So many words I'd forgotten about.

North east

To me a jotter is the notebooks with the spiral / binding at the top not the side ?

I'm NE. To me as a school pupil and teacher a jotter was anything you wrote in at school so you'd have a maths jotter, an English jotter etc. English people seem to call them exercise books.

We call them copies - I'm in the Republic of Ireland.

I called them jotters and having to cover them with wallpaper in primary school.

My favourite words are scunnrred, dreich, skelf, breenge.

Just so much better than their English equivalents.

A jotter is both a notebook and a school exercise book, according to Cambridge.

@GrandTheftWalrus ahh, the days of wallpapering jotters! Definitely a thing in Belfast in the 1980s and early 1990s.