Welcome to day eight of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez (Mind an gie Jez’s post a keek.)
Following up with the basics of Days and Months, today’s post is all about nummers (numbers).
Continue reading “Things in Scots #8: Nummers“Welcome to day seven of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez (Mind an gie Jez’s post a keek.)
This post is inspired by a comment left by Chris. She mentioned a couple of her fave Scots words, one of which is one of mine. That word is stookie.
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Welcome to day six of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez (Mind an gie Jez’s post a keek.)
In keeping with yesterday’s days of the week, here are the months in Scots.
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Welcome to day five of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez (Mind an gie Jez’s post a keek.)
It occurred to me that I hadn’t shared what the days of the week are in Scots. With Scots being closely related to English—just like Norwegian is closely related to Danish—some of the days are the same.
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Welcome to day four of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez (Mind an gie Jez’s post a keek.)
As kids, we were discouraged from speaking Scots, so much so, we were given little bits of paper to put in a tin with the English for the Scots words we were meant to stop using.
It wasn’t until I met Jez that I realized that one of the words I’d used my whole life wasn’t English. When I twigged that the teachers didn’t know it wasn’t English, I couldn’t stop smiling.
That word is today’s Things in Scots: Oxter. (Oak-sturr)
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Welcome to day three of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez.
Today’s word is another of my favorites: Wheesht.
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Welcome to day two of Things in Scots!—a fun collaboration with my husband, Jez.
Today’s word is one of my favorites: Skite.
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Last month I said I was going to do some posts in Scots. Admittedly, I did…but then I caught the flu, and most of my plans went out the window. So, with Jez’s (husband man) Animals in Scots series at an end and the fact that I missed out, we decided to join forces and collaborate on a month-long series: Things in Scots. Yep, we were super imaginative yesterday.
For my first post, I’m going to share a word that’s been in my head the whole time I’ve been flu-y: Coorie.
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Ower e last twa-three month, Ah’ve been barkin an fleein oan e eBay wabstaid. Dinnae fash, Ah’m fendie an bocht athin saicant-handit.
The day, Ah gat aroon tae yuisin ma new-tae-iz shewin machine. Ah goat it fur wanworth £20 plus P&P. Whit e bairgin!
Noo, time tae git a wheen claes mendit.
Inglis owersettin ablow (English translation below).
Over the last few months, I’ve been spending extravagantly on eBay. Don’t worry, I’m thrifty and got everything second-hand.
Today, I got around to using my new-to-me sewing machine. I got it for the bargain price of £20 plus postage and packaging. What a bargain!
Now, it’s time to mend some clothes.
