Today is St. Andrew's Day.
BBC News reports that an online archive has been created which aims to record the Scottish dialect in all it's glory.
Some of them have to be seen to be believed! I'm quite sure that, much like the language of Shakespeare and Pepys, most of these words are now defunct. And long may they remain so....
Honest to fuck, who uses the word 'sonsie' anymore? Just people reciting Burns, that's all!
These words are DEAD! Let them lie.
And none of the local Caithness dialect words are included (no "Scorrie" or "Deek" or "Boug" for instance)....but then, maybe we are not Scottish?
Have a deek at the site here.
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