Is this a Scottish saying?

[ian beaton jack]

re pinkie, in the black isle(especially in avoch) the little finger was called a "kreenie", the ankle was a "crockel"just a couple of the strange part names, my daughter has drawnup pages of the old avoch words
ian jack

[ninatoo]

a bit laate with the reply but I heard my mother use it many times, like Ninatoo I had my accent knocked out of me when I came aff the boat

You know I can still see that little so and so who ruled the school yard back then, telling me "It's not 'somebuddy' it's some (nose in the air here) BODY!" and I still want to swipe her!!! Lucky for me I can still speak the accent if I feel like it....can you Stew?

[StewL]

HI Nina
Yes I can still put it on when I have to although a team leader where I work is Scot's and she said I try to put the accenct back on and speak scottish it probalbly sounds like an ozzie scots accent to her it nearly got me in trouble a few years ago, when I slipped back into the accent and he thoought I was taking the mickey out of him, luckily a young guy who came from Faifley and knew where I had lived told him I wasn't and had just slipped back into the tongue.

[wini]

The word Press as in cupboard. I just realised this afternoon when talking about words we never use in Australia that we used to use in Scotland nearly fifty years ago. and we used to say " in the press". Is that a Glasgow word or what is the origin of it?

wini

[LesleyB]

Hi Wini
Press is used on the east coast too, but I've not heard it said much in my adult years - it was more something "grown ups" said when I was little. (It's maybe the fault of fitted kitchens!! )

Best wishes
Lesley

[apanderson]

'Lobby' is another one ......

Folk used to have a back and a front lobby - nowadays the front lobby is usually 'the vestibule'

I can just imagine a wee scenario .....

"Maw, huv we goat a vestibule in oor hoose?" .....
"Naw hen, we huvnae goat yin o' they things - that's whit posh folk huv, we've goat wan better, we've goat a lobby an oor's is goat a dosser in it tae"

Anne

[joette]

Anne you had me in stitches.
Russel I have had the privilege of attending the Halkirk Highland games last year.It was very well attended.
Alas the Oman link is not my own.

[ninatoo]

As an aside, but still sort of connected, the Australian ABC songbook for this year features "The Welly Boot Song" (Billy Connolly - but not him singing it) and next year we will have "You cannae shove yer Granny Aff a Bus".

[jennyblain]

Catching up with a few things here -
We always called the kitchen cupboards 'presses' in the house I grew up in. That was in Dundee but my parents were from Glasgow area.
'You'll trip over your face' is what I remember people saying...
and, on the accent, when I was driving north with a friend a few years ago, she told me that when we crossed the border my accent changed. Not from talking to anybody - we hadn't even stopped for petrol yet! - but because I was back hame!

Jenny