Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

First footin.

Referring to people as they (before the whole pronoun stuff came about)

Ali Bali and Yeh Canny Shove Yer Granny Aff the Bus are the first to Scottish songs I’ve sung too (and taught) my children and grandchildren.

My son in law didn’t like it though when his children got to the bit about shoving yer other granny aff the bus as in his culture it was disrespectful. 😁

Maybe me and your mum were at the same schools 😊

I think it’s a bit more general than just Edinburgh. My Glasgow grandfather used to say it.

@happywotsit First footin and......HOGMANAY! No New Years Eve here!

@queenatom I think the Singing Kettle is still a thing, but I have a feeling it's just Artie on his own now. I remember when it was Artie, Cilla and Gary.

Sorry, meant for Dinnaefashyersel.

Ah yes to ‘back of’ for time.
My mother from Fife always says ‘at the back of 1’ and I still don’t know whether she means just before or just after, and I’m 56😂

Oxters. I was shocked to find this was a Scottish word. The English have no idea what it means.

Getting your messages in

dookin for apples at Halloween

Op…but no…

when I moved to north west, I was surprised to hear Liverpudlians use the same “fish supper” and “messages” that my Scottish husband used . We didn’t use those phrases over other side of Pennines in Yorkshire 🤷🏼‍♀️

we had a theory that maybe it was a catholic thing in origin or irish - hence why it ended up in Liverpool as well

I was unaware of this when being introduced to the wider family of my then boyfriend. The woman walked over to me smiling and said "And what school did you go to Reenie?". I smiled back and gave the name of a local state school, her smile dropped lower than her sagging tits, she looked me up and down slowly, turned on her heel and walked away.

My jaw dropped lower than my very pert at that age tits. Apparently schooling was very important in those circles. As part of his abuse once he had become my husband he would say "I don't know why your parents didn't send you to private school". Arsehole.

YY to calling people cunts but not meaning to be offensive. An office junior had answered the phone while I was seeing to something else at work and told me there was "some cunt on the phone" for me. All my state schooling had not prepared me for that 😮

Has anyone mentioned 'the morn's morn' and the 'the morn's nicht' for the day after tomorrow?

Newcastle bred and a lot of these I kent as a bairn

I’m in Newcastle and a fair few of them get used this far south … also most of my family are from Lancashire and have used some of these phrases all my life!

Snowballs. Proper sponge wi jam in the middle ones..no yer wee marshmallowy jobbies.
Also jobbies...and oose..and stanks. And it definitely wurnae me. It wis hur

@midgetastic that has reminded me of "Ah kent 'is faithur" which I think means he has ideas above his station but I knew the man who sired him and he's not all that.

And there's "We're all Jock Tamson's bairns", have we had that yet?

ARTIE is still cutting about on his own. I think his dd took over as the singing kettle but it didn't take off.

we had a theory that maybe it was a catholic thing in origin or irish - hence why it ended up in Liverpool as well

yes. Which is why so much of what’s said towards the West Coast of Scotland is also said on the East Coast - it’s just the accent that differs.

Eh. At the end of every sentence. Is that a Fife thing?

Weefla - small boy.

I think Artie from the Singing Kettle has fallen on hard times and is trying to make a wee bit of extra money, bless him. I play the SK songs to my English children and they don't understand a word.

Haha this made me lol

Are they ever called rolls in England?

Circles.

No it's not a bloody americanism. I'm from Dundee. Ken.