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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hi all , I have lived in Scotland for many years and I keep hearing new words for things , one I heard yesterday was a WASPS BINK. For a nest ! Come on share yours with me

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By *ola cubesMan
over a year ago

coatbridge

"Hi all , I have lived in Scotland for many years and I keep hearing new words for things , one I heard yesterday was a WASPS BINK. For a nest ! Come on share yours with me

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you sure it wasnt theres wasps down in the bing ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a wasps bike, not a nest so maybe bink is a corruption of that. xx

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

"Hi all , I have lived in Scotland for many years and I keep hearing new words for things , one I heard yesterday was a WASPS BINK. For a nest ! Come on share yours with me

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lived in scotland all my life and never heard of it lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Hi all , I have lived in Scotland for many years and I keep hearing new words for things , one I heard yesterday was a WASPS BINK. For a nest ! Come on share yours with me

lived in scotland all my life and never heard of it lol

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I looked on Wikipedia and they were correct

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

"Hi all , I have lived in Scotland for many years and I keep hearing new words for things , one I heard yesterday was a WASPS BINK. For a nest ! Come on share yours with me

lived in scotland all my life and never heard of it lol

I looked on Wikipedia and they were correct

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ive heard of wasp bike too but not wasp bink

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe different area's call it other things, bike, bing, bink???...we also call it a wasp bink!

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

"Maybe different area's call it other things, bike, bing, bink???...we also call it a wasp bink!"
ah so that where he heard it then would never have guessed

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

And your point is ?

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

"And your point is ? "
No point at all

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By *uitar_antiheroMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

I call it a "shiiiiiiiiii....." & run away

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By *entscotscplCouple
over a year ago

falkirk ish

only in Scotland

awright bawbag is a customery greeting

thingy means absolutely any thing

fuck off means realy

moan then is an invitation to battle

hunners means 1,2 or 3

12 degrees means summer

ma bit means your house

bawhair is a unit of measurment

where u fae determines if your gettin a doin or not

fuck it is the solution to all problems

ahhh ya bastard means ouch

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Sw Scotland

Bawhair is a unit of measurment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

n mind ye dinnae lose yer guttie doon thon cundie

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By *issNaughtyxxxWoman
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Numpty, a idiot

da/dinnae kein, i dont know

Cunnell, lights

Fit like a day, how you doing today?

Ca canny, go slow

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By *ane DTV/TS
over a year ago

London - till 25th

Wee Willie has two meanings...

I work with a couple of Germans, they just don't get rhyming slang.

They really don't get the Hank Marvin ad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't get this Scottish obsession with how "different" they are. Every region has its own slang and variations on pronunciation. It's a sad state of affairs when the inability to speak properly is seen as "culture" and something to be proud of.

I'm not Scottish, in case you haven't guessed...

Rant over.

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By *entscotscplCouple
over a year ago

falkirk ish

see you lavvy heid your gettin it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don't get this Scottish obsession with how "different" they are. Every region has its own slang and variations on pronunciation. It's a sad state of affairs when the inability to speak properly is seen as "culture" and something to be proud of.

I'm not Scottish, in case you haven't guessed...

Then you don't realise that they are often the remnants of languages that used to be spoken in those areas. The words and dialects are as valid as RPQE and shouldn't be denigrated. My favourite word is 'dreich'. It sums up its meaning SO well.

Rant over."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not Scottish, in case you haven't guessed...

Rant over."

But what is "properly"? You have just said that every region has it's own variations, but to write it off as slang is wrong! In many cases, it's the way people have spoken for centuries and it is indeed part of an area's culture!

And it's certainly not a "sad state of affairs"!!!

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By *orteMan
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Cant see what is wrong in enjoying diversity and I am suspicious when someone sets themselves up as the arbiter of what is 'properly'. Relax and enjoy the subtle variations in meaning. Fud

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cant see what is wrong in enjoying diversity and I am suspicious when someone sets themselves up as the arbiter of what is 'properly'. Relax and enjoy the subtle variations in meaning. Fud"
. haha always liked the word "fud"... there's a car number plate wi that on it locally, always makes me giggle ..lmao

How about... Spicket = tap!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Here's one I don't get , how can you get a half loaf ?

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By *cottybhoyMan
over a year ago

falkirk

I'm not Scottish, in case you haven't guessed...

Rant over."

Refuse to take any rant seriously when you are posing in those pants!!!!

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By *issNaughtyxxxWoman
over a year ago

Aberdeen

I'm not Scottish, in case you haven't guessed...

Rant over.

Refuse to take any rant seriously when you are posing in those pants!!!!

So very true!

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By *issNaughtyxxxWoman
over a year ago

Aberdeen

I'm not Scottish, in case you haven't guessed...

Rant over."

Yes, your right each region and area indeed have there own native tounge. Scotland has doric,gaelic and local word's that have been used and said for centuries. Many of my relative's do not speak 'properly' and if you asked them to they would continue to speak the way they are as to them that is 'proper' If you were to speak 'proper' to some that would'nt have a scooby doo to what you are on about.

I'am sure in your local area there will be afew word's/terms people use and other's would'nt know.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's why I luv the Scottish language its braw lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you're talking about the Queens' English then you'll find the majority of folk speak in their local dialect.When James IV was on the Scottish throne he used to disguise himself and wander about and hang out with the locals.The Guid Man Of Ballengeich he was known as.Everyone knew who he was but no one ever said anything!!Everyone spoke the "Kings' English".Which was the language common folk,lords and Royalty all spoke.

One of my favourite old scottish words is Chantywrastler

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By *illow PimpMan
over a year ago

Midlothian

"Here's one I don't get , how can you get a half loaf ? "

Half loaf is an idiom, getting less than what you wanted is better than none.

source : free dictionary

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By *heRainManMan
over a year ago

Warrington & Glasgow

"n mind ye dinnae lose yer guttie doon thon cundie

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Is cundie an east coast term for a stank?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well if a stanks a drain.. aye

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Here's one I don't get , how can you get a half loaf ?

Half loaf is an idiom, getting less than what you wanted is better than none.

source : free dictionary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ooops 4got to type... to get half a loaf u get a bread knife n cut it.....teeeheeee

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

so glad im from Essex where we all talk proper lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's stated that the purest English is spoken in Inverness.

That'll put the English gases at a peep!!

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By *uirkygirlCouple
over a year ago

Quirkyville

"It's stated that the purest English is spoken in Inverness.

That'll put the English gases at a peep!!

This is true...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This one of my favourite poems.

This is the six o clock new. By Tom Leonard. Read it out loud and you have the perfect Scottish accent.

this is thi

six a clock

news thi

man said n

thi reason

a talk wia

BBC accent

iz coz yi

widny wahnt

mi ti talk

aboot thi

trooth wia

voice lik

wanna yoo

scruff. if

a toktaboot

thi trooth

lik wanna yoo

scruff yi

widny thingk

it wuz troo.

jist wanna yoo

scruff tokn.

thirza right

way ti spell

ana right way

to tok it. this

is me tokn yir

right way a

spellin. this

is ma trooth.

yooz doant no

thi trooth

yirsellz cawz

yi canny talk

right. this is

the six a clock

nyooz. belt up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

** meant news not new. **

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That'll put the English gases at a peep!! "

Ahem !! being from england

i quite like all the different scottish twang and slang..

Not sure about the inverness thing but Big apologies to anyone local to the aberdeen area - i just cant understand you at all..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol no even their fellow scots can understand them... Lol

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By *riendly foeWoman
over a year ago

In a crisp poke on the A814

NEVER heard it before...

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By *cotscpl66Couple
over a year ago

Glasgow

"only in Scotland

awright bawbag is a customery greeting

thingy means absolutely any thing

fuck off means realy

moan then is an invitation to battle

hunners means 1,2 or 3

12 degrees means summer

ma bit means your house

bawhair is a unit of measurment

where u fae determines if your gettin a doin or not

fuck it is the solution to all problems

ahhh ya bastard means ouch"

That was funny.....brilliant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" Big apologies to anyone local to the aberdeen area - i just cant understand you at all..

I think you'll find it's not so much Aberdeen itself, but the area north of Aberdeen, Buchan, it really does have a language all of it's own!!

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By *sk_morrisseyMan
over a year ago

glasgow

Anyone that doesn't embrace the diversity of dialects in our fair country is a complete warmer! :P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm back home after 15 months in MK working for Santander - managed to get the locals (and the Spanish) that worked with me using a few choice scots words - like huddie, stramash and numptie.

Got to spread the culture influence of the Scots - Wha's like us, damn few & they're aw deid!

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By *illdeeCouple
over a year ago

St Andrews this week

Half loaf - my understanding is that a loaf used to be twice the length it is today in the supermarkets. Hence you would ask your baker for a half loaf and get what we call a loafa breid nowadays.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The New Teacher.

Is a dove a doo dad?

Is a doo a dove ?

Is a cow a coo, dad?

A sparrow jist a spyug?

And is a wall a waw ,

Is a dog a dug?

She’s gonny warm a ear ,Dad

Instead o’skelp ma lug.

Ma Teacher’s awfy posh ,Dad ,

She changes awe oor names,

Wee Shugie now is Hugh ,Dad

And Jimmy,s ayewys James.

I’m scunnered wi it aw, Dad

The way she shoogles words,

A must be glaickit no tae ken

That feathered friends are burds.

Ye learnt me all wrong ,Dad,

Ye called a ball a baw.

Yur wife is now my Mother,

You said it wis ma Maw.

Ah’m no share hoo tae spell , dad,

Ah’ll niver pass ma test,

Whit is this ah’m wearin’,Dad?

A simmet or a vest?

Ah gave ma nose a dicht, dad

When it began tae dreep.

She gave me sich a fricht ,Dad,

A nearly fell aff ma seat.

Haven’t you a handkerchief?

She roared as if in pain,

No, a jist use ma sleeve, Miss,

And wiped ma nose again.

Ah cawd a mouse a moose , Dad,

A shid hiv held ma tongue.

That’s manure on yir bits , Dad,

Nae longer is it dung.

It’s turnips and potatoes ,

No tatties noo and neeps,

She said I’d ripped my trousers,

When I’d only torn ma breeks.

There’s twa words fir awthin’, Dad,

They’re jumbled in ma heed,

Hoo kin a be well bred , Dad?

When ah keep sayin’breed.

Now is a crow a craw ,Dad?

Is a bull a bul’?

Ah’ll try to git it richt, Dad,I will, I will Ah wull!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Excellent!! Or should that be rerr?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would luv them to say on the weather forecast sometime,just for a change, a wee alternative to "heavy showers", good old "it will be stottin doon".

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