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maggiebee | 09:49 Wed 06th Apr 2022 | ChatterBank
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We will be getting many visitors to Scotland over the summer. This is a short lesson about expressions you may hear with explanations. Please practice before you arrive.

DID YE, AYE
Oh you did, did you

GEIS PEACE
Please leave me alone, you're annoying me

AYE, NAE BOTHER
Yes of course

NAE CHANCE
I'm afraid that won't be possible

YER AFF YER HEID
Oh dear, you may be troubled

YER GITTIN' ON MA WICK
You are slightly giving one a headache

I will be back later to test you out. Please (Scots) feel free to add to the list.
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FANDABIDOZI
very good
FFFRRREEEEEDDDDDOOOOOMMMM!
Freedom.
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Sorry TTT, go to the bottom of the class. Your expressions would never be uttered by a true Scot.
Lang mae yer lumb reek.
I dinna ken.
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davebro: Lum = chimney; Reek = smoke. Not said in every day conversation as the OPs are.
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dannyk13 - great, you're getting into the spirit of it. Eh dinnae ken - you will hear this on a daily basis. Great song by St Andrew & the Woollen Mill - Dinnae ask me fur eh dinnae ken.
Maggie, i'm a tad surprised your response to TTT wasn't, "Away and bile yer heid", or "Away, lavvy heid. :-)
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Well said Ken, these expressions are perfect.
Ta, Maggie, but i have to admit to Googling for 'Scottish Insults' :-) The one i like best is, "Yer bum's oot the windae." :-)))
PEANUT BUTTER
when I was a student I worked in a bar and this Scotsman came in and and asked for "Peanut Butter" - confused wondered if he was in the wrong place, but I asked again, he repeated "Peanut Butter" - I couldn't fathom it and asked again, angrily he repeated "PEANUT BUTTER!" - finally the penny dropped, he was saying "Pint of Bitter!" - hilarious, I've been telling that ever since!
Has your ma got a sewing machine?
Tell her to stitch that!
YER GITTIN' ON MA WICK
oh
I heard - - - Och you git on ma tutts...
Good idea, maggiebee. For those who don't speak it, bastardised English is so often difficult to understand.
plain english is so difficult to understand
esp if you have to read it on AB !
ter daaah !
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Dinnae sell bitter in Scotland TTT. Now is you asked for a pint of heavy!
The great Stanley Baxter (still with us, I'm pleased to say, at the age of 95) was great on this, well-remembered from my young days:
yes maggie they often asked for a "Peanut Heevy" too but some learnt to ask for Butter!
Look oot the windy
(Look out of the window)

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