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apanderson
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I just had to share this . . . .

Post by apanderson » Mon May 14, 2007 3:01 pm

I can't remember for the life of me how I came across this site but it has me in knots every time I read through it.

Enjoy!

http://www.threetowners.com/various/words.htm

Anne
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Muriel
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Post by Muriel » Mon May 14, 2007 9:20 pm

Oh what memories!

Muriel
Searching Ross - Lochwinnoch & Eaglesham, Renfrewshire; Glasgow; Glover - Paisley; Macadam - Glasgow.
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q98
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I just had to share this ..

Post by q98 » Tue May 15, 2007 9:28 am

Mah hame toon is wan o' them three - Saltcoats; aka "Ra Costa Clyde"; or at least it once was. There's a few words there that were new to me but I left over 40 years ago.

Jim
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q98
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Chris Paton
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Post by Chris Paton » Tue May 15, 2007 10:25 am

I live in Largs, just up the road from the three towns, but it's mad to see how many words I recognise as being used in my home town of Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, just over the pond. We never cried, we always 'girned'; although we never 'slevered', we did 'slabber', which is probably the same word; an ice cream was always a 'poke', and we couldn't wait for the 'pokey van' to arrive so we could order a '99 poke'! Whe it rained it 'teemed' or 'bucketted', and I knew a few 'bampot weans' in my time back home!

Chris :)
Tha an lasair nad anam aig meadhan do bhith
Nas làidir 's nas motha na riaghaltas no rìgh.
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joette
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Post by joette » Tue May 15, 2007 12:10 pm

:oops: I understood & still use many of the lovely expressions here.All that money my Mum paid in elecution lessons down the swannie.
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Post by Clydesdale » Wed May 30, 2007 8:35 pm

Great fun!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That was great to read over so many words and expressions I grew up with. My husband says he has added Scots to his list of languages as I keep teaching him different words.

We used the word "stank" for a manhole cover - maybe that was just in the Clydebank/Glasgow area though.

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