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schuette wrote:just read it myself and I imagine she could understand it :-D
Yeah, she could. It was for an oration exercise. I almost cried!
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Heres some Aberdeenshire ones:

Loon - man

Quine - woman

Fit like - How are you?

Foos yer doos? - How are you getting on?

Muckle - many/much

Tholed - Doing, as in "I canna be tholed wi' that"

Chavin' awa' - I'm ok

dreicht - damp/wet
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Slaine mac Roth wrote: Toilet = bog
Thank god, I though maybe I was the only one that'd heard that over there! Me Scotsman usually called it the bog, sometimes the loo, but mostly the bog.
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Fridge wrote:Heres some Aberdeenshire ones:

Loon - man

Quine - woman

Fit like - How are you?

Foos yer doos? - How are you getting on?

Muckle - many/much

Tholed - Doing, as in "I canna be tholed wi' that"

Chavin' awa' - I'm ok

dreicht - damp/wet
Loon is my favourite....but I also like when Aberdonians say fit like :-D
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Seeing as we have at least three Scots on board here, you may be able to help with something that's been bothering me lately.

Just recently, I was listening to "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers which features the immortal lines:


And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
Just what the hell is havering? :?
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it's just like to gibber :-D
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*chuckles 'cuz I love the terminology*
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That song caused me to look up haver in the dictionary years ago. It said it meant to equivocate.
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what dictionary was that...?

when someone is talking nonsense we'll say....quit your havering
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schuette wrote:what dictionary was that...?

when someone is talking nonsense we'll say....quit your havering
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Not a slang dictionary by any means.
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Post by CygnusX1 »

ElfDude wrote:
schuette wrote:what dictionary was that...?

when someone is talking nonsense we'll say....quit your havering
www.m-w.com

Not a slang dictionary by any means.
when someone talks nonsense here, we say: SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE. :-D
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Talkin smack :-D
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or shut the hell up Soup. :-D
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Walkinghairball wrote:Talkin smack :-D
yeah...that too! :-D hey Hairy :headbang: hey Soup :headbang:
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