Is no wonder that some new immigrants find it so difficult to learn English, with all the variations spoken. A few years ago, I was visiting family in rural Aberdeenshire. Lovely, welcoming, large , happy family , lots of stories and lots of laughter. With a lot, and I mean, a Lot, of concentration, I got the gist of what they were telling me, with me doing a lot of smiling and nodding. Several talking at once, and the more excited they became, the less I understood them, became a totally foreign language to me. Sitting beside me was another cousin , from the Orkneys , I had to keep looking at her to translate for me. At the end of the visit, I suspect they decided their New Zealand cousin was a bit dim, couldn't understand the Queens English. At the time, I thought, too, that my Aunt in Perthshire ( where my Father was brought up ) used some seriously weird words and phrases at times, but generally speaking she was easy to understand. Mary -----Original Message----- From: lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Maisie Egger via Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:22 PM To: LANARK@rootsweb.com Subject: [Lanark] Scottish Word Today---Slang Jan 19,2016 SCOTTISH WORD for TODAY January 19, 2016 SLANG Wazzok On t.v. this evening a certain U.S. wanna-be President was referred to by someone in the British Parliament as a wazzok. It apparently has its roots in Northern England and means an idiot or daft person: Was fairly rare in Yorkshire before Capstick's popularisation of it in 1981. “You great useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzock.” (Tony Capstick, 1981) Equivalent of the use of wazzok In parts of Scotland would be the following: Glaikit – stupid. Ye’re a glaikit wee soul, so ye are. Kin ye no pick up efter yersel’? Skinny Malinky Langlegs!* --- A lang dreep o’ watter (a long drip of water) --- A tall thin person. Gaun yer dinger ---Going off the deep end...(or going postal). Gie it laldy---Give it its worth. Puggled---He’s fair puggled, so he is. ppl. adj. Scots (Lallans) and Scottish vernacular. knackered, done for, finished, defeated, frustrated, under the weather v. Puggle. (Of recent slang origin, may correspond with the Eng. military slang "puggled", very drunk, believed to be from Hindustani "pagal", mad, furious, but may derive from buggered, and possibly influenced by Scots Pauchle, puzzled) ---------------------------------- (A tad vulgar, though anything goes nowadays!) Lanark contributor, John Duncan, used to get a kick out of this: *Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet, went tae the pictures but couldnae find a seat; when the picture started Skinny Malinky farted, Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet. Maisie ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Language reflects and carries culture. We're a' uncos! -----Original Message----- From: lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Legarth via Sent: Thursday, 21 January 2016 9:19 AM To: 'Maisie Egger'; lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] Scottish Words and Language Is no wonder that some new immigrants find it so difficult to learn English, with all the variations spoken. A few years ago, I was visiting family in rural Aberdeenshire. Lovely, welcoming, large , happy family , lots of stories and lots of laughter. With a lot, and I mean, a Lot, of concentration, I got the gist of what they were telling me, with me doing a lot of smiling and nodding. Several talking at once, and the more excited they became, the less I understood them, became a totally foreign language to me. Sitting beside me was another cousin , from the Orkneys , I had to keep looking at her to translate for me. At the end of the visit, I suspect they decided their New Zealand cousin was a bit dim, couldn't understand the Queens English. At the time, I thought, too, that my Aunt in Perthshire ( where my Father was brought up ) used some seriously weird words and phrases at times, but generally speaking she was easy to understand. Mary -----Original Message----- From: lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Maisie Egger via Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:22 PM To: LANARK@rootsweb.com Subject: [Lanark] Scottish Word Today---Slang Jan 19,2016 SCOTTISH WORD for TODAY January 19, 2016 SLANG Wazzok On t.v. this evening a certain U.S. wanna-be President was referred to by someone in the British Parliament as a wazzok. It apparently has its roots in Northern England and means an idiot or daft person: Was fairly rare in Yorkshire before Capstick's popularisation of it in 1981. “You great useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzock.” (Tony Capstick, 1981) Equivalent of the use of wazzok In parts of Scotland would be the following: Glaikit – stupid. Ye’re a glaikit wee soul, so ye are. Kin ye no pick up efter yersel’? Skinny Malinky Langlegs!* --- A lang dreep o’ watter (a long drip of water) --- A tall thin person. Gaun yer dinger ---Going off the deep end...(or going postal). Gie it laldy---Give it its worth. Puggled---He’s fair puggled, so he is. ppl. adj. Scots (Lallans) and Scottish vernacular. knackered, done for, finished, defeated, frustrated, under the weather v. Puggle. (Of recent slang origin, may correspond with the Eng. military slang "puggled", very drunk, believed to be from Hindustani "pagal", mad, furious, but may derive from buggered, and possibly influenced by Scots Pauchle, puzzled) ---------------------------------- (A tad vulgar, though anything goes nowadays!) Lanark contributor, John Duncan, used to get a kick out of this: *Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet, went tae the pictures but couldnae find a seat; when the picture started Skinny Malinky farted, Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet. Maisie ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> A few years ago, I was visiting family in rural Aberdeenshire. > Lovely, welcoming, large , happy family , lots of stories and > lots of laughter. With a lot, and I mean, a Lot, of > concentration, I got the gist of what they were telling me, > with me doing a lot of smiling and nodding. > Several talking at once, and the more excited they became, the > less I understood them, became a totally foreign language to > me. Sitting beside me was another cousin , from the Orkneys > , I had to keep looking at her to translate for me. At the > end of the visit, I suspect they decided their New Zealand > cousin was a bit dim, couldn't understand the Queens > English. Almost certainly not, in actual fact. Those of us who are privileged to belong between the Tay and the Spey are very much aware of our special linguistic heritage and the fact that when the dialect is spoken fluently it is difficult, if not impossible, for someone from south or west of the Tay or west of the Spey to understand it, let alone someone from the Antipodes, and none of us would ever call it or think of it as the Queen's English. If anything, they probably felt a little guilty that in their enthusiasm for conversation they had embarrassed you. Anne