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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
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SallyintNorth

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  • Cornwall
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Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #1 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.
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

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happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #2 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?

mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #3 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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ZaktheLad

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Thornbury, Nr Bristol
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2013, 01:37:44 pm »
I got 7/10  :-[ 

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
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Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2013, 01:42:13 pm »
Easy peasy - where's the hard ones?  :excited:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Dan

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Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #6 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. :)

happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #7 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!!

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
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Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2013, 06:17:04 pm »
Watch out or I'll do a Black Country one  :roflanim:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Alistair

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2013, 06:24:26 pm »
5

Rubbish that, a measly five

marka

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Moray, NE Scotland
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Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2013, 06:35:43 pm »
7 out of 10 for me !
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Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2013, 07:04:02 pm »
9 out of 10 Sonsie had me flummoxed.
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #12 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.

john and helen

  • Joined Mar 2013
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Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2013, 03:00:35 pm »
9 out of 10 sonsie  had me too, i nearly had it, but changed my mind

devonlad

  • Joined Nov 2012
  • Nr Crediton in Devon
Re: Try this Scottish language quiz
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2013, 03:08:01 pm »
I am officially a southerner- 4/10- I knew dreich but the other 3 were guesses.

 

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