"Tak that ye gralloch ye." Translated: gralloch: the disembowelling of a deer, disembowel. "Take that! You cleaner of carcasses you." ?gral?x jump. My granny used to do this job and I often felt like the child. Although it was chickens rather than deer. Most often. And I used to feed those chickens every day until [...]
"Noo hud yer wheesht fur a minute my fine bowsie able lookin puddocks and puddockesses, and I will read tae yez what I huv written oan the menu here." Translated: bowsie: big, fat, corpulent, puffed up. "Now be silent for a minute my fine fat healthy looking frogs and froglettes and I will read to [...]
"There’s a fine furze bush ah could help ye hing yer draiglet petticoaties oan for tae dry in yonder oot o the way den ye ken." Translated: draiglet, draigelt: wet, drenched. "There is a fine gorse bush where I could assist you to hange your soaked petticoats up to dry in that out of the [...]
"Aye ye hoolet ye, yer no sae slee as ye think ye are noo that we’ve got oor secret weapon yokit. Wir warned." Translated: slee: go or come silently. "Yes you owl you, you are not so silent on the approach as you think you are now that we have got our secret weapon working. [...]
"You are one long yirr – if ye dinni watch ‘n tak heed it’ll likely be the death o ye." Translated: yirr: make an outcry, keep complaining. "You are one long moaning pain in the ear – if you don’t take care and be mindful it will likely be the death of you." y?r
“Could yiz tak yersels aff an peck at the girse somewhere else. Ah’m tryin tae sleep doon here.” Translated: yiz, yez, yaes, youz: you (plural), you lot. “Could you take yourselves off and peck at the grass somewhere else. I am trying to sleep down here.” early. Too early. If only we could rise with [...]
“Save yersel son. Let yir brakwast wirm go.” Translated: wirm, wurm: worm. “Save yourself son. Let your breakfast worm go.” subterranean drama. If you were in a hot air balloon looking down on a rainforest it would look like a big flat green carpet. Yet you know that it is a jungle stuffed with all [...]
“If you’re certain the electric is aff this time fur sure, then – and only then have a rake in the box and see if you can find the sharpening tools.” Translated: rake: search amongst things. “If you are certain that the electricity is off this time for sure, then – and only then have [...]
“Hoi! Mind yer heid we’re gowfin here.” Translated: gowf: golf. “Hoi! Mind your head we are golfing here.” Hatch. Golf is an old game but Scots lay claim to adding the hole and playing it on machair the precursor of modern courses world wide with its short grass and sand traps. It was so popular [...]
