“Oooooh Dr Soddy! The isotopes all look sae tasty ah canni choose. Ah think ah’ll jist hae a dainty wee mattle at them aw.”

Translated:

mattle: nibble (like a young animal).

“Ooooh Dr Soddy! The isotopes all look so tasty I cannot choose. I think I shall have a dainty small nibble at every one.”

Margaret Todd, doctor and author (1859–1918), suggested the term isotope to Frederick Soddy – Nobel prize winner.

The Scottish Word: mattle with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.