The real mouse sized Santa and a mouse criticising the Christmas Cards on the mantelpiece.
The Scottish Word:

Aboot.

“Weel, they’ve aboot got the costume right, but why they always think ahm a gigantic muckle lump like thon an still shin doon a lum beats me.”

Translate:

aboot: about, nearly.

“Well, they have just about got the costume correct, but why they always think I’m a gigantic large lump like this here and still shin down a chimney beats me.”

[aboot spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]
The Scottish Word: aboot with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

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