Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

Anyone for pineapple and raspberry tarts?

Rhubarb rock and Soor Plooms to rot your teeth. Also lucky tatties, what the hell where they, so weird.

The bunker = the kitchen worktop
Link sausage
Flat sausage

Gonnae no dae that.....

It amazes me how much these things differ in different parts of Scotland and some seem to extend down through Northumberland and into Yorkshire.

A wee

Knowing what Dreich means.

You don’t need to be Scottish to know that. I’m in Wales and it’s dreich right now.

also most of my family are from Lancashire and have used some of these phrases all my life

I grew up there and was thinking the same thing. There’s no hard cut off at the Scottish border.

Forgot, clapping a dog. Family member visited her parents with their English BF. BF did indeed give the dog a round of applause 🤣

Has anyone mentioned Clootie Dumpling yet? Or drop scones?

Both my parents were from Greenock.
We visited every summer for most of my childhood and into my 20s
Things that stood out to me were..

’back up the road’ - which seemed to me they were heading home.
’juice’ - squash
’away up the stair’ - upstairs
’what age is he/are you etc’ - how old etc
every cup of tea was served with amazing sweet treats, including snowballs which were unlike any snowballs we had in England
Fish suppers
it was law to have a death notice in the Greenock Tele
Weddings/funerals were always in the Co-operative halls (and always called by it’s full name).
The high flats
At a funeral people were allocated cords

Gaun yersel
Cheerio
Clatty
Covered in ooss (no idea if that's the correct spelling, rhymes with juice, means lint/dust)

I’ve also just remembered how various relatives with the same name (Archie, Willie, Ian and Tom to name a few) were distinguished by either being called Wee Tom, Tom, or Big Tom.

I always felt sorry for Willie.

Maybe this an Aberdeen thing but “fine” for food meaning really delicious.

Not just food! A client told me I looked "fine" and I went back to my colleagues stressing in case I usually looked a mess. Once they stopped laughing they informed me it was a compliment.

Some of these are specific to areas of Scotland. I just don't get "Gonnae no dae that" - just doesn't make sense.

I'm a Doric speaker and OH has lived in the South and Inverness and rolls his eyes at some of the things I say.

sheen - shoes
een - eyes
Far ar ye gan - where are you going

I remember asking English XMiL where her sister stayed. She said "Do you mean where did she stay on holiday". I was baffled.

I’d forgotten these! My dad used to love a clootie dumpling. Mum didn’t make them very often but she was ace at making drop scones.
Jockanese is a very different language and my English friends were puzzled with puddocks, cuddies, oxters, and pokes. Being asked to sine the teapot was a real test.

The games a bogey. Brassneck. Haud yer wheesht. My great granny used to say sausinges for links. Plain and pan breed. Tottie scones. Neds and gallus. Dogging school.

My grandma makes a clootie dumpling every Christmas, complete with 5p wrapped in parchment for the lucky winner to find. One of my favourite parts of the day!

Jobby 😆
Bawbag

I once asked a colleague in Berkshire where they stayed about 5 times with them saying "what?" each time before I realised it must just be a Scottish thing!

We had a cousin up from Dundee who asked for a poke of chips in the local chipper and everybody burst out laughing.

OH's cousin said she loved my north east accents because I sounded like Miss Hoolie from Balamory..,,,,,

I’m in Fife - we go ‘over’ to Edinburgh, through to Glasgow and up to Dundee (not over, which technically it should be!)

This is the same in my family 😂 it’s so common in the Highlands/Islands for sure.

Similarly someone going by their middle name instead of first name, usually because the first name is the same as their sibling/cousin/parent/aunt/uncle!

My dad and Granda were both John so dad was known as Ian from birth🤯😂

@spiderplantparty the use of the word supper is very regional in England too. I'm from the West Midlands and we would use it in the same way you would .

Very interesting thread though .

Can anyone explain a Macaroni pie to me please ? I love the sound of that .

Loads of these.

Not mentioned yet:

Ben the hoose (through to the living room from the kitchen)

Condie (drain in the road. This might be Perth specific!)

The jeely piece song!

A drink o’ ginger.

Another one I just remembered that I heard in Aberdeen (not sure if used elsewhere) "Tatties ower the side"

'Revert'
Empire biscuits!