Dialect words and usage

[Bridie]

"I wasn't allowed to use any slang words in Glasgow by my Grannie.
One had to ask if one could associate with the ruffians on the pedestrianised street after schooling of a day."

When my sister moved to Harestanes in KIrkintilloch, my aunt from Bridgeton insisted on telling her friends she had moved to Harestones!

Did anyone get covered in 'clabber' as a child? You could get really 'maukit' with it!

I got maukit but I don't think I got covered in clabber??

[Autolycus]

forgotten about stoor - dust/rubbish on the floor? drookit - thirsty? glaur - glare?
I wasn't allowed to use any slang words in Glasgow by my Grannie.
One had to ask if one could associate with the ruffians on the pedestrianised street after schooling of a day.

Drookit is wet - probably drenched and glaur is muck or mud.

[Dot]

nuttytigger,

In the annoying words thread I mentioned a sentence with the words 'tumbler' and 'working kitchen' in it.
Have heard the word 'tumbler' plenty times but have only heard the words 'working kitchen' in more recent times.
I reckon it must be a local NI thing.

Doorstop,
Thanks for your update on the word 'dander/dauner'.

[nuttytigger]

I would put my tumbler on the bunker in the kitchen, after my mum said to co'coney(sp?) with the milk

[Josef]

I would put my tumbler on the bunker in the kitchen, after my mum said to co'coney(sp?) with the milk

Ca' canny. With Ca' being pronounced caw. And which goes to illustrate the difference between Scots words and regionally-accented pronunciation of English words, btw.

[nuttytigger]

she did say it caw canny, i just didnt know how to spell it

[My Kitten]

I would put my tumbler on the bunker in the kitchen, after my mum said to co'coney(sp?) with the milk

Ca' canny. With Ca' being pronounced caw. And which goes to illustrate the difference between Scots words and regionally-accented pronunciation of English words, btw.

What is ca'canny?? never heard that one, a lanarkshire word?

[Josef]

What is ca'canny?? never heard that one, a lanarkshire word?

'Be careful', or in this case 'go easy on'. I think it was pretty widespread.

[My Kitten]

What is ca'canny?? never heard that one, a lanarkshire word?

'Be careful', or in this case 'go easy on'. I think it was pretty widespread.

Never heard of that one in cumbernauld or glasgow (east and south side)

[rabmania]

What is ca'canny?? never heard that one, a lanarkshire word?

'Be careful', or in this case 'go easy on'. I think it was pretty widespread.

Never heard of that one in cumbernauld or glasgow (east and south side)

Govan and the Drum, not widespread, but it was used.

[Josef]

What is ca'canny?? never heard that one, a lanarkshire word?

'Be careful', or in this case 'go easy on'. I think it was pretty widespread.

Never heard of that one in cumbernauld or glasgow (east and south side)

Govan and the Drum, not widespread, but it was used.

Bloody self-centred Weegies . It was common in Central Scotland at the very least, to my certain knowledge.

[Edit] I've just realised that you mean that it was sometimes used there, rather than that it was exclusively used by a minority there. Sorry, rab.

[My Kitten]

haha that'll be cos i was in Cessnock!

[rabmania]

What is ca'canny?? never heard that one, a lanarkshire word?

'Be careful', or in this case 'go easy on'. I think it was pretty widespread.

Never heard of that one in cumbernauld or glasgow (east and south side)

Govan and the Drum, not widespread, but it was used.

Bloody self-centred Weegies . It was common in Central Scotland at the very least, to my certain knowledge.

[Edit] I've just realised that you mean that it was sometimes used there, rather than that it was exclusively used by a minority there. Sorry, rab.

Graciously done sir, but no need. My not being specific enough was the problem, and am happy to engage in dialect further afield so long as it's Cornwall, ken?

[br-cmr]

Copied over from Annoying Words:
I've always known the outermost slices of bread as 'ootsiders', but does anyone else call a sandwich made from ootsiders a "sore haun"?

I've heard that one - but only ever known one person who said it. Mind you, he did speak a rather unique version of the language... lots of words which only he used....

[br-cmr]

When my sister moved to Harestanes in KIrkintilloch, my aunt from Bridgeton insisted on telling her friends she had moved to Harestones!

Which reminds me of the girl who told her teacher that she had been in town, and a man had collapsed. He apparently had an epileptic foot.