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Miss_Cinnabon
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in Scotland
Anyone on here speak doric or am i the only one ( bar twink of course, my mum)
This is the language confined to the north east scotland:j
Few examples are:
quine (kwine) - lass, girl
loon - lad, boy
bosie (bozie) - cuddle, hug
greetin' - crying, sobbing
gads - yuck
My dh takes the mickey out of me when i say brakfast!
This is the language confined to the north east scotland:j
Few examples are:
quine (kwine) - lass, girl
loon - lad, boy
bosie (bozie) - cuddle, hug
greetin' - crying, sobbing
gads - yuck
My dh takes the mickey out of me when i say brakfast!
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I've never heard of doric. Although greetin is a common word for crying in the north of England too:)0
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Ok who can decipher this one: ps i can:rotfl:
Wee Angus on his wae frae work
would hit tha pub fa a perk
O' Tennents lager frae tha keg
whiles chatting up tha barmaid Meg
A pint or twa there wae friens
a' bleathering awa like scholars an Deans
Debators O Parlimentary views
Ministers preaching o'er tha pews
Wae drink in hand they'd laugh their fill
tha glory Mead upon their bill
Yelping like some bairney pups
catching breeths atween their sups.
(nae wiser a man than yin filled wae ale
Nae greater a time than while drinking frae tha Grail.)
In football games they A' would linger
or singing songs for all's a singer
Nae matter how bad tha voice
a' would request their favorite choice
Happy all wae drink in hand
while holding up the bar they stand
In rattled curses tae tha bumping airms
while viewing o'er some lassies chairms
Whispering oot all dreams an desires
that drink within them all inspires
An' Angus kens that soon or late
he tae hame must tak tha gate.
Kenning tae deep doun inside
his drunken breath he'd better hide
Saying fareweel tae friens and foes
leaing ahind tha pub's warm burning coals
Doun he stummels tae tha chippy
tha air ootside tis crisp an nippy
Making him drunker than afore
he side steps frae door tae door
Eating his fish supper, enjoying each bite
thinking aboot all that's happened tha night.
Till there he rouns tha corner street
His hame sae warmly it does greet,
Falling o'er tha step ootside his hame
Tha door it opens, Behold his sullen Dame
Trying tae act sober wae all his might
afore his wifie here tha night
But she nae fool nor blind tae see
his daft antics, his blabbering plea.
In comes Angus wae words O' love
tae face tha thumping slap an shove
Her roaring voice would put fear intae tha Deil
Hear wee Angus weep an squeal.
What type O' life drink it brings
that great at first yet later stings
What worth has man tae waste his life
wae drinks illusions an its strife.
Sooner or later as true as Hell
Yin cannie live save by its spell
getting worse an worse day by day
while friens an family turn away
An Angus wheither he kens or no
has drifted where tha drunkards go
An time shall tell what fate bestows
for tha Curse O Ale, nae man knows.0 -
I certainly can, although I'm a little further South than you are
must've been my long stay up one of the Angus glensDoric seems to start once you're North of the Sidlaws
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I remember a few years ago going into a sweetie shop in Stonehaven there were 2 old boys talking away to each other, I could not understand a word, it was completely foreign, Isn't there a bizarre word for earwig, wish I could remember.Booo!!!0
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Violetta wrote:I remember a few years ago going into a sweetie shop in Stonehaven there were 2 old boys talking away to each other, I could not understand a word, it was completely foreign, Isn't there a bizarre word for earwig, wish I could remember.
LOL yes its forkietailie!0 -
I can read it too - a Buckie quinie here :beer:0
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I canna abide forkies! git a fair puckle in summer, they are gads:rotfl:0
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We bought a brillant book for our (English) Best Man called Teach Yourself Doric - was such a laugh!!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Yourself-Doric-Douglas-Kynoch/dp/B000057I0G/sr=8-3/qid=1169588902/ref=sr_1_3/203-3800073-3467128?ie=UTF8&s=musicThe Best Things in Life Are Free0
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