The Scottish Vernacular & Slang Thread

Full Tilt Boogie · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 125

Bearing in mind the growing number of non-native Jockanese members on these boards, there's definitely a requirement for an English to Jock/Scots vernacular and slang translation thread covering words and phrases.

Who wants to start?

irritateddata · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 404

you can

p.s. that'd be local dialects then cos there's so many different ways of saying the same thing depending on which part of the country or even county yer from
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Full Tilt Boogie · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 125

So can you give us an example?

BoB · Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject:

Scottish slang is very difficult as it may have several accents in one area.
Aberdeen has about six in the city alone and when you get into the country it is not always possible to write down how things are said as it is mostly a spoken language as in the Doric.
Even writing it down may have several ways of spelling it as it was a spoken language rather than written.
Even as I spoke when young in semi Doric, it was hard to put to paper.

Full Tilt Boogie · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 125

Then why not just pick the slang you know or is used in your area? We can build a lexicon of as much of it as possible or the members here know?

eloise · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 3495

http://www.booksfromscotland.com/Books/Shut-Yer-Pus-9781845020361

This may help

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Woodside Wullie · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 423 Location: Burgh o' Woodside

fitaboot spikin clishmaclaverin sharn. (Should I use a question mark or an exclamation mark to end it?)

Ave jist used a question mark to ask ma question aboot clismaclaverin sharn.
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blind neep · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 66 Location: Aberdeenshire

A friend of mine (Carol)was told by an English pal ( Jane)that one of their

friends had died.

Carol : "Fandid eedee?" ( When did he die?)

Jane : (with a blank look on her face)" Eh?"

Carol : " Weel, fitdid eedeeo? " ( what did he from?)

Jane : I have to catch my bus....

BoB · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:21 am Post subject:

Wee John · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject:

Jings eh kin read aabirdeen doric nae bather atah.

Although eh hiv tih admit its tuffer thin Dundonian tih read. (Fur me)

But there igen eh hiv been readin BoB's doric fur a whilie noo.

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Mad Welshie · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: