The whole world has gone crazy if there is no celery in central coastal California, or if people there want celery? Yours, Villandra Thorsdottir Austin, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maisie Egger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 9:58 PM Subject: [WIG LIST] Scottish words > Scottish word/expression to mull over in the new year - Gyte: > > I was bemoaning to Olive McDonald, who grew up in Newton Stewart, that > there was no celery in the supermarket for my foray into attempted gourmet > cooking...I won't "belay" you with the recipe...and told her that there > wasn't a stock of celery to be found in the supermarket as apparently the > rain had interrupted delivery. First time ever we've experienced this in > the Central Coast area of California. Her response, "The whole world has > gone gyte!" In Glasgow we used to refer to someone unflatteringly as a > stupit-lookin' gyte! No doubt no translation is needed, but just in case! > Gyte is a Scottish adjective for crazy or mad. As a noun, it means child: > a first year boy at Edinburgh High School or Academy. Also gait, geit > (get. offspring). > > Gyte is such a robust word to describe a situation which is not quite > normal. > > I should add that I don't think the younger generations are using such old > Scots words anymore. Even when I was growing up donkey's years ago, using > the vernacular, especially the Glesga (Glasgow) patter, was frowned upon. > Now I believe efforts are afoot to try to "teach" the "auld tongue" as > well as (the) Gaelic. Olive should start a wee compendium of all the > words used in the Newton Stewart area when she was growing up before they > disappear the way of the dodo bird. > > Maisie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message