Yer Mither Tongue

[Russell]

Hi Davie

Taws or Tawse is a Dundee name but my folk managed to make to Kilrenny and Cellardyke and then married into the Anderson, Watson and Murray lines. The fisherfolk in Cellardyke never moved away and the Meenister kept a guid record.

I wonder who else is up for a blether again ?

Russell

[Davie]

Hi Russell,
The things ye learn oan here Eh?
An speakin'o 'straps.
Three Lochgelly wans went for over £90 at auction last week.
Davie

[Russell]

Hi Davie

The taws must be clasified as an illegal weapon now?

Does anybody else know if they banned ownership or was it just the actual act of punishment that was made illegal ???

Russell

[Davie]

Hi Russell,
Not only am I no up tae speed oan Fife Parishes, know nowt aboot the legality oan the belt,
but here is anither wee song.

http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/song ... raptap.txt

These straps can sell for up to £75 a piece at auction.
I know the lad that buys them,and he sells them on to shops that deal in a certain type of goods.
Don't want to upset oor delicate readership oan here by going into details.
Davie

[Russell]

Hi Davie

Don't think I fancy the kinde o places he sells them on tae

Matt McGinn wis a lovely man. I knew him back in the hippy days through Folksong Clyde Valley and the guy that started that - Drew Moyes frae Penilee.
The Edinburgh folk scene was a based in pubs. Glesca wis fur the punters and folk nights were in Iona Community house on the Clydeside, a proper folk club behind the City chambers and places like that.
Edinburgh was po-faced traditional but Glesga wis fur the ordinary working class folk. They Edinbury folk couldnae unnerstaun Hamish Imlach at first.
Ye've got me singin noo....Memries...DA da dadadada da.....!

Russell

[Davie]

Hi Russell,
I know the McGinn family well, a Calton mob frae Ross St.
Someone has recently put all 10 of Matt's albums onto CDs.
Will buy them masel.
Cheap at £29.
Ma big brother still sings wey a band, Stramash, and they are performing "McGinn of the Calton" at Celtic connections next year.
Ah wiz chattin' tae Matt's one time banjo player yesterday, Billy Connolly, who was over from America to attend a funeral.
He was with his daughter and was going to treat her to a birthday gift later in the day.
He sais "A kin feel ma credit kerds haemorrhaging in ma pocket"
He was in guid form.
Davie

[annie1]

Hi All,

I was brought up in the East Coast, one granny from Aberdeenshire and one from Fife, so I had a very mixed accent, one thing I remember is my Aberdonian granny always added an ie on the end of everything, such as:

Hae a lookie at the moosie, here's a pokie o sweets, if you had done anything wrong, you ran with the sound of "I'll skelp your doup!" ( and she did)
It was a coothie sounding accent.

I have just bought a book for a wee lad, its called Animal ABC a Scots Alphabet, B is the best, birlin bears wi big bahoochies thats one I have not heard for many years. I know so many people now who will tell their children off for using these words, or ask them to speak properly, its such a shame.

Ann

[joette]

Speaking as one with a big bachookie couldn't agree with you more.
My Mother sent us to elecution lessons but was in despair as our teachers taught us in good old Scots.

[Hugo]

This is all very well but like it or lump it, Lallans and Doric are dying out, if not already dead.

This is partly because they are a spoken language of the working people but also because after the first world war our authorities bought into Standard English which should have meant that you were understood anywhere in th UK. (They also built a North British Hotel - I have yet to hear of a South British Hotel. But that's bye the bye.)

Needless to say it did not work out as expected.

I know there's a wheen o' words still in use but that is not enough/

Hugo