Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

queenie's mum maybe was puggled after eating too much. Then she'd need to have a good swadge!

DH said he always called a turnip a narkie I don't think I ever called a vegetable anything but the correct name, my mum was Hyacinth so I had to talk nicely

One word we have not mentioned is "bisom" or is it "beesom". I would be described as a wee bisom if I had been naughty for any reason.

I call a turnip a turnip and not a swede. Another word I use is brambles where as in London they appear to be called blackberries.

I have been told a few times to go an bile ma heid as a child and even as an adult. I think that was a Fife expression.

"Nursing her wrath tae keep it warm." Burns could paint very graphic word pictures. You can just see Tam's missis prowling round the house waiting for him to come home, getting more angry every minute while she plans what she will say when he staggers through the door.

DH worked with a woman who would sit for half an hour on the bus each morning going over in her mind the latest aggravation. By the time she arrived at work a slight disagreement the previous evening had become grounds for divorce, and she would bite the head off the first person to speak to her.

What's a neep?

I call a neep a swede

A turnip

Elegran I bet Burn's knew a wummin juat like that - don't we all? Must admit to being guilty of same a few times but I'm not very good at keeping it going for long.

Sorry, struggling with a new keyboard - Burns and just.

Don't we all, indeed?

Neeps = orange swede turnips, larger and milder than the smaller white and purple ones. Very nice mashed with plenty of butter and pepper. Parsnips also have the --nips ending.

Is this too soon to mention the famed microwave-whole method of cooking the neeps again? Burns night is on the horizon after all.

Where's a wee smiley face with a wig and tartan tammy when you want one?

Do you remember wabbit? Not feeling very well.
Also the word scunner, I am scunnered if I ken fit that means.

Ooh yes. I'm definitely wabbit today.
I've also taken a scunner to the wee cakes I've got left!

Wabbit and scunnert, sums up how I'll feel after I have cleared up the kitchen after a baking session. I may be the world's messiest cook.

anno I do not have that problem as I never bake!

What I find really interesting is that these words are not peculiar to Scotland as I had thought but are, instead, common usage across NE England and mainly Eastern Scotland (Glaswegian is a language in itself). No one from the West Highlands of Scotland, nor the NW of England has chipped in with their knowledge or use of these words. This makes me wonder if there is a Scandinavian link too because in the olden days it was easier to trade/travel by sea across the North Sea than overland, until the railways arrived, with western areas of the UK. I do know that words such as Haar for sea mist and Stoor for dust are shared with Scandinavian languages.

My Geography teacher (nearly 60 years ago) told us that Geography underpins every subject History, Sciences, Languages, technology. Even the spread of cultures/religions is influenced by geographic factors. In Kenya, native languages have no words for sunset, twilight, gloaming, days dawning, etc. Instead, they have several words for the sudden onset of darkness. This means that their literature/culture does not have concepts like being in your 'twilight years' nor 'Golden Years', nor even the 'Dawn of a New Age' or something slowly dawning on you. I suppose they would use creeping up on you instead. Fascinating isn't it?

We have been out in mizzle today - no other word describes that mixture of fog and light drizzle so well.

Bidey in is a favourite of mine,not a wife not a girlfriend ,something inbetween .Someone who "bides" with you but no formalisation like marriage

Another word is fashed, meaning I really cannot be bothered.

DM was not Scottish but used to say 'I canna be fashed' in a joking fashion (or perhaps she wasn't joking ).

Fascinating Granny23

In the NE a "biddy" is an old lady as in "she was an old biddy".

"Fashed" is an old fashioned Geordie word too . Charleygirl

There is a Geordie poem called the Lambton Worm in which there is a line that says:
"He couldn' be fashed to carry it yem, so ee hoyed it doon the well" (It's quite hard typing in Geordie).

Loosely translated to "he couldn't be bothered to carry it (the worm) home so he threw it down the well".

Another (slang) old Geordie word is Netty meaning toilet.

When I was little my granddad always used to say;

"there's a wee spuggie on the spyutt"

There is a small sparrow on the spout (drainpipe)

Have we had "I took a right scunner "? Reading another thread and it popped into my head ?

spuggies in Geordie as well. When you go to the seaside you might go for a plodge (paddle)