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BAFFIES n slippers These comfortable items have been gaining linguistic ground over the course of the last century. The Transactions of the Scottish Dialects Committee (1914) give three references to ‘baffs’ which they define as “Old loose slippers”, “Coarse …
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FANKLE n., v. tangle, muddle, twist Fankle is derived from fank, meaning a coil of rope, or to twist or tangle. Fankles or fankling can be physical, as in this quotation from Robin Jenkins’ Fergus Lamont (1979): “She spoiled every game she took part in now is fast heir fanklet …
on Apr 22
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Scotslanguage.com - Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket by Margaret Hamilton
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'Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket', by Margaret Hamilton, is one of the poems from 'The Kist' - an anthology of Scots (and Gaelic) poetry and prose that was digitised by Education Scotland and gifted to the Scots Language Centre so that teachers and learners can continue to …
on Mar 2
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Scotslanguage.com - The Five Scrolls
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For fowk that haes an intress in releegious warks, owersettin texts, or baith, the’r a rare gaithery o texts no lang set ower fae the Ebrew scripters intae Scots. Hugh S Pyper haes brocht thegither nae less nor five texts – The Sang o Sangs, Ruth, Lamentations, Qoheleth, an Eshter, in ae …
on Jan 22
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Scotslanguage.com - WALLIE adj fine, splendid; fancy, decorative
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Of obscure origin, wallie is often used to describe anything fine, beautiful or excellent, as in: “Thanks to ye, sir, for your mony wally words” from Hew Ainslie’s A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns (1822), and in: “Wae a’ hid a wally supper” from C M Costie’s …
on Nov 23, 2023