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How many of you can translate these Scottish words?

71%

It's one thing seeing it written down, it's another to actually listen to Wullie

6 oot o' 7. I didn't get the cyberjanny one, which is obvious now, but I don't know what the hell VINE is and that threw me off.

Yeah, I got that one wrong. I also thought a Plastipoke was a prophylactic sheath.

I suppose to some teenage Glasgae dwellers it is though.

Yeah when you see it written down in some cases you can make a sensible guess

I am quite lucky in that I have a lot of English relatives and so I censor myself unconciously when I'm not talking to Scottish people, but when I'm at work I definatly have a lot of West Coast slang in my vocabulary. (I can't be assed checking if I've spelled that right.)

I am drowning my sorrows tonight and being extra Scottish to mourn the passing of a Scottish institution in Kilmarnock though, so I might try sound like a Teuchter. The whisky will undoubtedly help. Talisker tonight. yum.

Most of them are pretty obvious if you imagine them read aloud by a screaming blue-painted nutter with a flail.


If only he could read.

Do you have Bunkers over there Gill? It means "work surface" for some reason I've never figured out.

cyberjanny threw me for the same reason and I went for probably the same answer as you!
The whisky quiz is good, I got full marks for it

I got cyberjanny - janny's slang for the filth, I thought. I got the carrier bag one wrong.

We don't have that word here however when I met Jen she used it. I think the first time she used it was when she was staying at my flat one night when we'd just met, so she was in my bedroom and asked me to go and get her something (maybe her phone?) from the bunker. I went stoating out the bedroom (trying to act cool and hot and sexy) and then realised I had NO CLUE what the bunker was. or where it was. I had to go back looking much less cool and ask her.
Also, she calls her slippers her baffys and the attic 'the grannit' or something.

My favourite Scottish phrase (ooster can attest to the fact I say it every time we drive along Great Western Road) is ' Timorous Beasties'.

57%

I struggle to understand gill and wullie when playing online most of the time anyway, so it's not much of a surprise

86%

I'm tuned into Wullie though thanks to Live

It is going to be a lot of fun when we make it to a BETEO gathering, since when we get drunk we do tend to become a lot more Scottish. See MetalAngels post in the DJ game thread for a detailed hypothesise on the expected outcome.

One of my uni mates was from Lanark, so I'm pretty quite good sometimes maybe.

I used to be friends with a Scotch games journo until he wanted £2 a month for it.

Crivens! Nae fash yersel's. There's nae hiddlins tae the speakin' o' the farrrrrrr Northerins. Unless yae's a reet mudlin tube.

But! Waily waily waily! I am but a paer Englishmun, scunner that ah ahm. Minds, still got 100%.

Mr Chris, if ever we meet ye shall git a dram fae me.

I loves the Scottish.

I remember the first time I read a Christopher Brookmyre novel, about 10 years ago. It's amazing how wonderfully, well, not onomatopoeic, exactly, but ... suitable the Scottish words are. They're almost self-explanatory.

By contrast, my parents used to have to have the subtitles on for Rab C Nesbitt.

My Dad was born in Greenock, I got 6/7 (I thought condom not plastic bag)

Malc

That is a tragically small weekly shop. You should write one of those 'shitty childhood' memoirs. Make a packet, like.

You've spelled Scotch wrong in the thread title.

que?

Malc

57% I can understand Gill quite well but barely a word Wullie says. Slang, however, is almost complete guesswork.

7 oot o' 7.

I'd never heard any of them before, but my powers of inference are legendary.

86%, yies can stick yer skyscrapers up yer hoop.

Amusingly, I used to use "Auld Scots" to piss off some of my old skippers. Even better, our African slave temporary worker understood me perfectly, or gave that impression anyway.

My stepmum is Scottish (from Fraserburgh) and she becomes noticeably more Scottish when talking to her relatives on the phone. I don't generally struggle with Scottish accents (Wullie's can be a bit tough at times but I think that's down to the less than stellar voice quality on Live); it's the slang that kills me. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the Scottish dialects have more words and phrases unique to them than all the other British Isles dialects put together.

One thing I'm curious about: how many of you know the word "cwych"?

I thought that the point of Rab was that he was practically impossible to understand...

No idea.

It's a Welsh loan word but I've heard Northerners use it. I'm fairly sure I've heard it used on Coronation Street, in fact.

You lot have it fairly easy (other than the bad quality of Live's voice chat), when I was down in Devon my co-workers would crowd round to hear me talk on the phone to Gill & my Maw, my accent totally changes & I use better words.

@Ricardo Cheery-copse, I don't recognise that word. How do you pronounce it?

Hah, turns out I spelt it wrong. Correct spelling is "cwtch". It's pronounced "cut" to rhyme with "put", then "ch" as in "chicken".

Cooch?

No, the vowel sound is longer than a 'u' but not as long as a 'oo'. It's one of those sounds that doesn't exist in English. The word itself doesn't have a direct English translation either -- which is why it's in the OED as a recognised loanword. However I've heard Northerners use it, which I've never fully understood, unless it's language pollination between Llandudno/Bangor/Rhyll and Manchester/Liverpool.

Yeah, it was just an excuse to say a word that means vagina, if I'm being totally honest.

71%, but I pressed the wrong option on one of them with my fat sausage fingers (still probably would've got it wrong though).

Q. Scottish quiz-can you understand us?

A. No, not in the slightest. What the hell was any of that on about!

Blimey, I don't think I've heard the word "baffies" for about twenty years. My oldest sister was the only one of my family who ever said it.
I do confuse my (Canadian) wife from time to time by referring to the draining board as the "bunker", though.

I can understand the Scots better than the Welsh, though where I struggle with Welsh accents it is usually due to some jingoistic little fucker doing it on purpose.

Really? My brother and I always understood 100% of what he said. Maybe we spoke fluent gibberish.

12231 posts on this forum appear to back up that statement.