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By *inasparkles OP   Woman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Messages or Shopping?

Where did messages even come from? Lol. It's shopping

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By *rmarkMan
over a year ago

lanarkshire

No idea my gran always called them that

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By *partansword78Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

no idea where or how it started, just marked it down as a slang term. if someone asks what i`m doing i will reply "about to go grab some shopping" but when i get back home and normally carrying 6 bags (cause no one likes doing multiple trips back to the car) i`ll shout to the kids to give me a hand with the messages. i find using slang to be a bit cringy and i constantly check myself when i realise i`m doing it.

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By *panksspankedMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Well back in the day messages would include going to the Bank and Post Office, dropping in your order to the grocer and butcher for delivery later in the week and perhaps visiting the newsagent to settle your paper bill. Often an assistant would pass on your message to the owner who actually kept track of delivery orders

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By *aspberryWoman
over a year ago

glasgow/belfast

Its going for the messages

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

When I go to supermarkets for food I go for the messages, anything else is shopping.

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

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


"When I go to supermarkets for food I go for the messages, anything else is shopping. "
This ^

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By *iss_Juicy79Woman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I always thought it was something to do with a shopping list looking like a written message

Took me a while to know what messages were as I'm not Scottish. I do think it's cute though

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By *oisonSlutWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

I always thought it was an Edinburgh thing - my mum would tell me ‘we are going to the store for the messages’. The store was also always the Co-op. If we were going to Tesco she said Tesco

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By *mudg3rMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

It’s a Scottish thing - I’ve heard it all over. It’s actually a Scots word and is in the Dictionary of Scots Language so not slang.

For me, the messages is food shopping only.

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

Messages I’d say is an easy end Glasgow. It was messages for me when I was young

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By *assy LassieWoman
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

Not just east end glasgow.

Food grocery or essentials shopping is going for messages. Probably cause your mum gave you a note ie message for the shopkeeper, 20cigs and a pint of milk.... Other shopping is retail therapy

I also go a message if my kids ask where I'm going and I don't want to tell them

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By *ensualgent38Man
over a year ago

London & Edinburgh

Very enlightening for an English emigre to Scotland. Thanks

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By *panksspankedMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"Messages I’d say is an easy end Glasgow. It was messages for me when I was young "

Much more wide spread. Was commonly used in the Highlands and Edinburgh too

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


"Messages or Shopping?

Where did messages even come from? Lol. It's shopping "

Food shop!

Maybe messages if you've various places to go bank, post office etc

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


"Not just east end glasgow.

Food grocery or essentials shopping is going for messages. Probably cause your mum gave you a note ie message for the shopkeeper, 20cigs and a pint of milk.... Other shopping is retail therapy

I also go a message if my kids ask where I'm going and I don't want to tell them"

Kid you not, the word ‘Jobby’ is used differently in those of a certain age across Aberdeenshire.

First time I met my ex’s grandparents, sitting in their living room and her granny stands up and says

“Oh I forgot to do that’s wee Jobby” and rushed out the room.

I’m in fucking knots, quietly ofcourse, all excited as I’m immature, saying to the then gf, ‘why the hell did she announce she’s away for a shit’

Jobby = small job/ task

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By *inasparkles OP   Woman
over a year ago

Glasgow


"Not just east end glasgow.

Food grocery or essentials shopping is going for messages. Probably cause your mum gave you a note ie message for the shopkeeper, 20cigs and a pint of milk.... Other shopping is retail therapy

I also go a message if my kids ask where I'm going and I don't want to tell them

Kid you not, the word ‘Jobby’ is used differently in those of a certain age across Aberdeenshire.

First time I met my ex’s grandparents, sitting in their living room and her granny stands up and says

“Oh I forgot to do that’s wee Jobby” and rushed out the room.

I’m in fucking knots, quietly ofcourse, all excited as I’m immature, saying to the then gf, ‘why the hell did she announce she’s away for a shit’

Jobby = small job/ task "

Yeah Averdeenshire and Highlands have there own language lol. My family are Elgin area and I just kook at them at times and think wtf are they saying

Quines and Luns. I though she was calling her pals son a lune as in lunatic. Lol. And Fit! For what lol.

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By *lixerMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

I think it came from the military. Someone would be sent to "get the messages". It passed into common usage as did many military phrases.

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By *use and wolfCouple
over a year ago

angus


"Messages or Shopping?

Where did messages even come from? Lol. It's shopping "

Messages. i think it's an East Coast thing

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

Shopping but my gran uses messages, I’d argue with her but she’s my gran

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


"Messages or Shopping?

Where did messages even come from? Lol. It's shopping "

Going to buy food is going for the messages going to buy anything else is shopping (dunno why but it is)

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By *uralCDTV/TS
over a year ago

Highlands

Up here in the remote Highlands, it was always called messages since I was a kid.

Nowadays probably over 50% will say shopping.

I say shopping.

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By *exy gentMan
over a year ago

Midlothian

If you're going for food etc,it's messages, if your buying clothes etc, it's shopping, simples

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By *rgoodnbadMan
over a year ago

greenock


"Messages or Shopping?

Where did messages even come from? Lol. It's shopping

Messages. i think it's an East Coast thing"

West Coast, here. Remember being dragged to the shops for messages in my shorts and tot boots.

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By *irth VaderMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Messages of it’s a supermarket and shopping if it’s buying clothes and stuff.

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By *un-shineWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Going to get the messages" thats what I say when im leaving the house to buy food. X

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


"When I go to supermarkets for food I go for the messages, anything else is shopping. "

This too

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By *anny77Man
over a year ago

glasgow

I think it comes from when your mum used to give you a note to give to the shopkeeper - usually as some sort of justification to give a 6 year old cigarettes back in the day!

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By *heeseandMarmaladeCouple
over a year ago

Ayrshire

For me, going for the messages is the stuff you need to buy, and going shopping is for stuff you actually want to buy

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