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Title: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Rosemary on September 30, 2013, 01:12:45 pm
for a laugh  ;D

http://www.scotland.org/index.php/quizzes/scots-language-quiz#quiz (http://www.scotland.org/index.php/quizzes/scots-language-quiz#quiz)
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 30, 2013, 01:18:56 pm
I got 10/10 and I was only certain of 1!

I used to wonder where English morphed into Scotland, and realised a few years ago that it's where I live now.   Most of the words I thought, "What would I think he meant if BH used that word?" - and I got every single one right, lol.
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: happygolucky on September 30, 2013, 01:20:28 pm
Not bad, I got the Haver slightly wrong but 9 out of 10 for a Southerner aye?
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Post by: mojocafa on September 30, 2013, 01:22:18 pm
Thank you for this, it made me remember my papa bob who used this language daily, got 9/10
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Post by: ZaktheLad on September 30, 2013, 01:37:44 pm
I got 7/10  :-[ 
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Post by: doganjo on September 30, 2013, 01:42:13 pm
Easy peasy - where's the hard ones?  :excited:
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Post by: Dan on September 30, 2013, 05:32:39 pm
I got 8/10, but I reckon I'd have got 10 if I'd heard them spoken in context. That's my excuse anyway. :)
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Post by: happygolucky on September 30, 2013, 06:13:41 pm
I should post a Leicester quiz, where I was born and grew up but  not sure I would get them all correct either!!
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 30, 2013, 06:17:04 pm
Watch out or I'll do a Black Country one  :roflanim:
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Post by: Alistair on September 30, 2013, 06:24:26 pm
5

Rubbish that, a measly five
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Post by: marka on September 30, 2013, 06:35:43 pm
7 out of 10 for me !
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Daisys Mum on September 30, 2013, 07:04:02 pm
9 out of 10 Sonsie had me flummoxed.
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Rosemary on September 30, 2013, 07:14:02 pm
9 out of 10 Sonsie had me flummoxed.

Address to a Haggis  Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
 Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
 Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
 Painch, tripe, or thairm:
 Weel are ye worthy o' a grace
 As lang's my arm.
Address to a Haggis Translation Fair and full is your honest, jolly face,
 Great chieftain of the sausage race!
 Above them all you take your place,
 Stomach, tripe, or intestines:
 Well are you worthy of a grace
 As long as my arm.
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: john and helen on October 01, 2013, 03:00:35 pm
9 out of 10 sonsie  had me too, i nearly had it, but changed my mind
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: devonlad on October 01, 2013, 03:08:01 pm
I am officially a southerner- 4/10- I knew dreich but the other 3 were guesses.
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: john and helen on October 01, 2013, 03:08:59 pm
i bet everyone got minger :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Garvie on October 01, 2013, 03:15:19 pm
living up in the north east of scotland teaches you a whole new language, took me ages to work out what folk were talking about when they used words such as scurries. they are sea gulls
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Herdygirl on October 16, 2013, 09:19:45 pm
I got 7 out of ten, must be losing my touch, my ex was a Glaswegian! (very excitable  :censored:  )
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 16, 2013, 10:18:03 pm
7/10
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: luckylady on October 17, 2013, 08:43:39 am
Cripes! 8/10.  As a Yorkshire lass through and through I thought I would fail miserably but those Highland holidays each year as a child clearly had some lasting effect.   :excited:
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: HallePalomino on October 18, 2013, 03:55:08 pm
9/10 - I take it 'jalouse' is a north thing? Never heard of it!!
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: SteveHants on October 18, 2013, 06:26:02 pm
6/10 - Mostly by guessing the least probable answer.... ;D
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: mab on October 18, 2013, 06:28:17 pm
me too - 6/10
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: northfifeduckling on October 18, 2013, 07:49:17 pm
7/10, soooo proud  :roflanim: (was guessing 4 out of those 7) :&>
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Bodger on October 19, 2013, 06:11:10 pm
I got 8/10 but only have a minute drop of Scottish blood running through my veins, so I was quite pleased and surprised with my score. The local lads in down town Pwllheli, refer to certain  unattractive girls as mingers or as being minging but tell me, the one phrase that I've never been able to comprehend is " Och aye Jimmy"  :idea:  What the heck does that mean then? :roflanim:
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: sabrina on October 21, 2013, 05:01:32 pm
9 out of 10 for me , good fun.
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 21, 2013, 05:31:54 pm
Och aye is oh yes.
Title: Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
Post by: Bodger on October 21, 2013, 07:38:31 pm
but whats a Jimmy ? :roflanim: